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Name: Dekker Dreyer  
   
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Date of Birth: 16th November 1980
   
Place of Birth: Daytona Beach, Florida, USA
   
Profession: Director
 
 
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Dekker Dreyer (right) with actor Forest Whitaker at the Sundance Film Festival

Dekker Dreyer, sometimes credited as R. Dekker Dreyer is an award-winning film director and producer. Dekker is best known for his movies, "Bandwidth", winner of a Slamdance Film Festival Anarchy Award, and "Selling Queer", a controversial documentary that won best documentary feature at the New York Film and Video Festival. He began his career as a photojournalist in Orlando, Florida shooting such artists as The Violent Femmes, The Chemical Brothers, and Reel Big Fish. His short film Closed Circuit was licensed to Miramax Films in 2002 spring-boarding him in to full time motion picture production. His future projects have him directing two science fiction features, the first of which is "Salt Boy", announced in a press release in June of 2005. Salt Boy, which is based on a character by Dekker, will merge Dekker's love of drama and dark visual style with his interest in super hero iconography. Dekker is owner of the New York based production company Danda Motion Pictures.

Dekker was born in Daytona Beach, Florida into a family of artists. During his early childhood he went on the road with his mother and father's traveling puppet show. All throughout his childhood he was credited as a gifted artist in the medium of pen and ink, having had his artwork, at the ages of seven onward, displayed at venues such as Daytona's Museum of Arts and Sciences and Jacksonville Florida's Cummer Museum of Art. Dekker attended Douglas Anderson School of the Arts before choosing to go after a career in motion pictures.

Dekker's family is closely tied to the arts, his father is an award-winning painter having studied under Alvin Hollingsworth. His uncle, Ron Dreyer, is an New York University (NYU) graduated actor who, in his youth worked with the prestigeous La Mama Etc theatre troop.

Although Dekker does not consider himself an actor he has been featured in a series of Cinemax promotions in 1999 and has popped in from time to time as an extra in productions associated with his friends. He is credited with appearing in The Waterboy, Monk, Mortal Kombat, and From the Earth to the Moon.

Trivia

Danda Motion Pictures is named for his wife Maranda's nick name "Danda". Also, the company logo is a representation of the Grand Army Plaza arch in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn where he and his wife shared their first home together.

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