Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Arthur is a graduate of UCLA School of Film and Television. Previously Arthur worked for MOTOWN RECORDS directing music videos, as well as the AD COUNCIL directing Public Service Announcements creating AIDS awareness.

Prior to that he served as Assistant Editor and Production Assistant on several large budget, studio bombs, many of which served as inspiration for moments in... AND GOD SPOKE, his first film. ...AND GOD SPOKE played at dozens of film festivals including Sundance and Toronto, and was released theatrically in 1994 by LIVE Entertainment.

With SHOOTING LILY, BORMAN says, "I always wanted to do a movie where I could incorporate a family's home movies into the main story. Not only would it allow me to spend time examining their history, but it allowed me to play with character point-ofview in a totally original way," declares ARTHUR BORMAN, writer-director of SHOOTING LILY, an independent comedy shot in the Fall of 1995.

"In my previous film, the actors and I worked with improvisation and tried to keep a sustained realistic documentary tone. In SHOOTING LILY, it's similar, except the false reality has become a married couple's home movies."

The film has an unusual blend of both drama and comedy. BORMAN says, "for some reason, after I explain the concept, people are categorizing it as a SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE. If that sells tickets, then go ahead, however I'd call it closer to DAVID HOLTZMAN'S DIARIES or an ALBERT BROOKS comedy before I call it a SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE. However, now that I think about it, SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE would have made a great title."

I don't consider myself a maverick filmmaker, but I do consider myself and independent filmmaker who likes to take risks.

SHOOTING LILY came about as an experiment. The experiment was to see if I could tell a story by mostly using home movies as the main story telling device. The question was whether a viewer could follow the plot and understand the characters in a string of mocked home movies, and most importantly, could I keep the film engaging?

I looked inside my personality and took my filmmaking and romantic obsessions to breathe life into characters who felt and reacted to life's glorious and painful moments the same way I do, and put these self discoveries up on the screen.

Have I succeeded? I'll know my answer after you've seen the film. One thing I do know is that it's been tremendously exciting to take a risk like this and make such a different quirky and unconventional movie.

But then again, isn't that what independent filmmaking is all about?

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