Filmmaker/Buisnessman Kelly Parks is the world's only ex-CIA, Rocket Scientist, Stand-up Comic, Screenwriter!

Kelly grew up in Wisconsin (mmmm... cheese) and spent his youth watching sci-fi and horror movies as well as gazing up at the heavens, wishing he could live among the stars. After high school, Kelly moved to Arizona to study Engineering Physics and one fateful day he met a recruiter from the CIA.  Soon after, Kelly was recruited as an analyst into the CIA's Space Systems Division (he highly recommends getting a Top Secret Clearance if you ever have the opportunity) where he and a few other hand picked scientists kept track of what the Russians were doing in space.

Realizing that The Agency was never going to fulfill his dream of space travel, Kelly left public service and took a job in the private sector as an aerospace engineer specializing in Orbital Mechanics.    Eventually bored with rocket science (Ha... never!) Kelly tried his hand at being a stand-up comic.  He went to an "open mic night" at a local comedy club and was hooked.  He practiced and performed whenever possible and soon he was actually making a living as a stand-up comic... and did so for five years! 

These days Kelly writes screenplays and recently won 1st prize at the International Horror & Science Fiction Screenplay Competition.  Kelly's greatest writing honor came in 2007 when he was a semi-finalist for the prestigious Nicholl Fellowship, a feat rarely accomplished by a screenplay in the sci-fi/horror genre. In 2008, he  became a partner in Unconventional Films and finished writing and directing the awesome comedy web series, The Crusader, and is now producing Universal Dead, a new horror/sci-fi web series which he also wrote. In the spring of 2011, he produced  the western/thriller "The Sorrow" starring Kirk Harris, John Savage and Michael Madsen.