 Corwin
Fitz was born June 13, 1976, the only child of Josh and Lola Fitz. He
was raised in
Jackson, Mississippi, where Josh, a
chef, is the owner and proprietor of one of the state's most
famous eateries: Capitol Grocery, a four-star restaurant
specializing in gourmet Southern cuisine. Lola Fitz works at a
landscape architectural design firm.
From an early age, Corwin showed promise in the arts. He
kept his parents stretching their then-meager salaries to
buy paints, clay, crayons, wood and toy instruments. A
day rarely went by that young Corwin didn't demand to depict some
scene, some strange essence in a picture, a poem or a song.
The Fitzes, all of their money spent on feeding their
son's growing needs, couldn't afford to send him to a private prep school, so he
attended to the local public school.
Josh and Lola seemed to feed off their son's creative
expression, and they gradually dedicated themselves to
their own suppressed talents, such as cooking and landscaping. Their
careers flourished during the 1980s, as Corwin manned his
curricula education. Today, they own a beautiful lakefront
home in Madison, Mississippi, and have enough in wise investments
to risk investing in a deal like Corwin's film.
The Fitzes heard
nothing from Corwin for several years after he enrolled at the University of
Mississippi in 1995. He dropped out after two semesters and
was believed to have gone west. There is no available
record of his experiences from 1996 until September of 2003,
when he moved back to Oxford. In March 2004, Fitz
came out in the local newspapers, calling for crew members and actors
to help produce a screenplay he had written. The movie was
called Bacchanals' Destruction, and in May 2004, Fitz and seven Oxford citizens disappeared into the
countryside to film the movie.
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