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Doug Dillaman

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Detroit-raised Doug Dillaman likes moving pictures so much that when not cutting images himself, he's often writing about film. In 2004 Dillaman headed to NZ to study editing, then began cutting for local television, including Let's Get Inventin' and Maddigan’s Quest. In 2008 he joined a filmmaking collective who met each Sunday. Dillaman worked with many of them on his directorial debut: identity-switching movie Jake.

Are you doing everything you can with your life? Could someone else do a better job with your life if they took your place? Those are the two questions that led me to start writing Jake. Doug Dillaman on his first feature, Jake