Directory:Dekker Dreyer

Dekker Dreyer is an award-winning United States film director and producer, best known for his movies, Bandwidth, winner of a Slamdance Film Festival Anarchy Award, and Selling Queer.

Biography

Early Life

Dekker was born in 1980 in Daytona Beach, Florida (USA). His father, a painter, encouraged him to pursue a career in comic book illustration. He later attended Jacksonville, Florida's Douglas Anderson School of the Arts to pursue his passion for visual art. He ultimately left the school after only a year and half [1].

Photographer

In the late 90's Dekker made a name for himself photographing recording artists Violent Femmes, The Dandy Warhols and others. This period as a photojournalist was chronicled in the now defunct online music magazine Shimmy and the on-going Ink19. In print / retail his photographs appeared in Launch and Spin Magazine.

Films

In early 2002 Dekker was asked to produce a short film, "Bandwidth" for Miramax Films as a promotional tie-in with the Steven Soderbergh produced Naqoy Qatsi[2]. The film, which starred J.D. Meyers from MTV's "Making the Band" went on to win a Slamdance Film Festival Anarchy award in 2003 and was later compiled with his other short work on the DVD "Bandwidth". His festival experiences were chronicled in both a series published in "American Magazine" over the Summer of 2003 and on the Malamute film web site. Bandwidth also included "Paloma Fly" a film featured in New York's Ocularis Film Series and winner of Best Short at the 2003 Voodoo Film Festival.

In 2004 Dekker produced "Selling Queer", a documentary feature which chronicled opinions on both sides of Orlando's annual controversial "Gay Days" event. The film opened in New York City and won the best documentary audience award at the 2005 New York Film and Video Festival [3]. The film was later screened at the Cannes Film Market and enjoyed limited theatrical release in New York City. The film was later released on home video.

Dekker has also been linked with The Working Shakespeare video series (2006)[4].

Television

Dekker is currently the president of Illusion Television, which he founded with partner Caitlyn Darr, developing and producing orginal science fiction programming such as "Analog's Science of Fiction" [5] series and a proposed dramatic series based on H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. The channel promoted several upcoming shows during the 2007 New York Comic Con [6]. The channel is currently available on the Akimbo Systems. According to the official website Illusion is coming to Verizon Fios and cable television in October of this year.

Filmography

• IMDB Filmography

Other

Although Dekker is not considered an actor, he was featured in a series of Cinemax promotions[7] in 1999 and has appeared as an extra in several projects, including The Waterboy, Monk, Mortal Kombat (film), and From the Earth to the Moon.

External links

• IMDB Filmography
• Dekker Dreyer bio at Slamdance Film Festival
• Danda Motion Pictures Dreyer's production company
• Illusion Dekker's sci-fi cable network

References

• American Magazine, July /August 2003 American Publishing LLC
• Independent Film Quarterly Issue 9 Spring 2005
• Interactive Magazine, June 2002 Arts Institute Press
• "Entertainment Weekly" #884 June 2006