Caleb was born in Seattle, USA, to an Irish-American father and a New Zealand mother. After moving to Alaska with his family when he was six weeks old, Caleb grew up traveling continuously between the northern and southern hemispheres, finally settling in Italy with his father and two brothers when he was 15. Before turning to film making in 2009, Caleb had worked as a motorcycle courier, a printer, a photographer, an olive farmer, and carpenter in both Europe and the United States. “Nasumice” is his first feature film.
Nasumice (Adrift)
Nasumice began it's life when Bob Carter, a dear family friend, told Caleb a story about his experiences traveling in the south of Italy in the 1970's. Several years later Bob and Caleb came together in Chicago to brainstorm ways to turn Bob's story into a feature film. Out of those early sessions a first draft of the script, for a then titled "Rodolfo", was born. Early attempts at finding funding proved futile and the project was put aside. A couple of years later, when Caleb was working at Bela Tarr's "film.factory" in Sarajevo, he met Moamer Kasumovic and the idea of making a revised version of the film with Moamer in the lead role took root. Caleb set about rewriting the story from a Bosnian refugee's perspective and the story as told now found it's way onto the page. Nasumice was in large part funded through the crowd-sourcing platform Kickstarter. Filmed on location in Venice, Rome, and the countryside of Puglia, the minimal crew used creative and effective means to produce a visually stunning film despite the modest budget available. The world premiere for Nasumice took place at the 2018 Sarajevo Film festival.