DEAN BARRY

33 year old, Film maker and Actor, and one third of CYPHER Films, Dean Barry was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY of Italian and Jewish heritage. While attending Morris H. Weis Elementary school, at the age of 9 years old, Dean was not only acting in "Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat" as Benjamin, but he also designed and constructed the set for the show . Theatre continued through Dean’s life with productions of “You Can’t Take it With You”, “A Christmas Carroll”, “To Kill a Mocking Bird” and the “Odd Couple” all before high school. With the beginning of high school, Dean found himself longing for entertainment. While attending Lafayette H.S., Dean would volunteer time after his own school day to work on set construction for shows in Edward R. Murrow H.S. In 1991 Dean successfully transferred into Edward R. Murrow H.S. and joined the technical theatre crew where he met FRANKLYN and three time Emmy award winner Chris Hayes. After dozens of high school productions, Dean attended Baruch and majored in Accounting and Business but spent his weekends at Purchase College, S.U.N.Y. where Chris and FRANKLYN had been attending school for technical theatre and film. His need to support his family and his desire to entertain an audience pulled Dean in many directions.
Dean found himself working as the Director of marketing for a national communications company, 9278 Communications, in the Bronx , NY, managing over 200 employees. The creative marketing skills and practices employed there, quickly carried over to CYPHER Productions and now, CYPHER Films..

Now with “LAST NIGHT IN BROOKLYN”, Dean continues the tradition of acting and behind the scenes devotion. He has taken on a leading role as well as multiple production aspects. As “Paulie Funzzo” Dean portrays a multi-layered character, bringing humanity and humor to a hard and ruthless killer. At the same time, he has been indispensable as a behind the scenes force and editing partner. Devoting countless hours toward the success of this film. Dean’s approach to getting “LAST NIGHT IN BROOKLYN” to an audience, has created a blue print for distributing this film and others in the future. It allows for audiences across the country to view an independent film without a distributor. This model will even out the playing field for a company of our size and allow for DVD sales and audience records that can rival widely distributed films.

Dean has brought CYPHER Films into the community and has opened our offices to the people of our neighborhood. With Chris Hayes and FRANKLYN, Dean has hosted summer-time BBQ’s that give the community a chance to get to know each other. He has partnered with neighbors and created a neighborhood beautification project in which flowers and vegetables were planted and continue to be.

He has taking on the role of co-writer and director for “LOST IN AMSTERDAM” that is currently in pre-production while promoting “LAST NIGHT IN BROOKLYN”. Dean is and will be a driving force of CYPHER Films now and in the future.