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Damian K. Lahey: Jennifer Murphy, Booger Mountain & Comic Book Ghosts — A Filmmaker’s Wild Year

Step into a filmmaker’s odyssey: Damian K. Lahey moves from teaching in Karachi to wrestling with lost rights, nostalgic comic‑book fever, and bold new projects that refuse to die. We follow the sparks of ideas—The Prometheus Club, a daring remake of The Maxx, and the poetic short Jennifer Murphy Still Lives—each born from detours, dead ends, and late‑night revelations. Along the way, he navigates industry chaos—missed meetings, rights puzzles, and the shifting fortunes of trade magazines—while using modern tools to turn scarcity into invention. This is a story about persistence, the strange…

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