Tim Novotny

Tim Novotny is an American film actor writer composer and director from Ellington New York Novotny began his film career as a music composer while working as a part time actor at Kent State Universitys theatre program from 20082012 He composed several soundtracks for many local independent films in northeast Ohio including Maurice Thomas aka J Starr Urban Cannibal Massacre aka Meat The Jones After his writing scholarship at KSU had ended Novotny decided he wanted to bring the stories he wrote to the screen As an independently taught editor and cameraman he began shooting music videos for local artists which lead him to make two short films titled Twisted Fate and Syndrome After winning 3 awards for his short film Sonnys Guest at the 48 Hour Horror Film Competition Cleveland he began production on his first feature film titled Vile Prey which premiered at the Nightmares Film Festival in Columbus Ohio in 2016 and was nominated for Best Ohio Feature Novotny later won the Marshell Hawkins Award for Best Score in a Feature Film at the Idyllwild International Film Festival 2018 for the motion picture Dark Iris He continues to work in cinema as the CEO and producer of his company The Novotarian Syndicate