BARRY WORTHINGTON
Barry Worthington grew up in Maryland about forty minutes from both Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, and at age six, knew he wanted to spend his life making movies and connecting with audiences after watching Jaws, Jurassic Park, and Star Wars. His parents let him borrow their family’s video camera, and he went right to work creating and learning how movies were made, even re-watching his favorite movies on VHS over and over again, understanding how every part of the process worked. His parents would take him down to the Baltimore Aquarium almost every month so he could film the sharks for his movies, just like in his favorite film, Jaws. He would continue to always be making his own films, even if that was a pursuit he had to accomplish on the side of his work responsibilities.
While in high school, Worthington took a movie-making class and the next year served as Teacher Apprentice for an English Speakers of Other Languages class which utilized film-making and film critique as a means to learn language and culture. Worthington learned an adage from his teacher about the experience with the ESOL students that he always carries with him: Film is a universal art form, and can be a means to bring people together. In his spare time, Worthington would continue to make films and show them to the entire school in the auditorium at lunchtime.
Worthington earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Media in 2010 from Towson University and quickly afterward founded his own production company, Limitless Films, LLC. Worthington began freelancing in the Washington, D.C. area, which included working on the PBS news commentary program, White House Chronicle, starting with production assistant work and within two years accumulated more responsibilities, including becoming editor, cinematographer, producer, and director on select episodes, and he still works on the show today. In 2014, Worthington spent a year working and studying in Los Angeles, and returned to the Washington, D.C. area where he was offered a job as an adjunct professor for film courses at his alma mater of Towson University concurrently with serving as an adjunct professor for film and art classes at Howard Community College, all while earning his Master of Fine Arts degree in Film and Electronic Media at American University alongside still making his own films.
Two of Worthington’s films helped represent American University at the University Film and Video Conference at CalState in Los Angeles in the summer of 2017. Since 2010, Worthington has made seven of his own films in seven years, which in total have earned over seventy Official Selections, awards, and accolades as “Best USA Film” at the Canadian Diversity Film Festival, “Best Comedy” at the Mexico International Film Festival, screened at six different film festivals in India, and were accepted into many American film festivals. He is currently wrapping up his final semester at American University, which includes finishing his Thesis film titled, Bummer, which is a dark comedy about an asteroid destroying Earth through the perspective of a family trying to come together. He looks forward to what comes
next in his career.