An openly gay filmmaker whose work often recalls the romantic melodramas of the 1940s and 50s, Tommy O'Haver moved to the forefront of up and coming writer-directors with "Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss" (1998), a gentle romantic comedy about a homosexual photographer and his crush on a presumably heterosexual model.A native of Indiana, O'Haver began making Super-8 films as a teenager. Originally harboring intentions of becoming a film critic, he studied journalism at Indiana University before moving to L.A. where he had been promised a production job. His experience on "Freddy's Dead: The
