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Derek Doneen
American documentary film director, editor and producer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Derek Jonathan Doneen (born March 27, 1987)[1] is an American documentary film director, editor and producer.[2] He is best known for his work on the feature documentary The Price of Free and the Netflix documentary series Heist.[3][4]
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Life and career
Doneen was born in Los Angeles, California on March 27, 1987. He graduated from Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts.[5] He started his career as an in-house filmmaker at Participant Media.[6] In 2018, he directed the feature documentary The Price of Free, about Nobel Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize.[7] He was named one of Variety's 2018 top 10 documentary filmmakers and listed in DOC NYC's "40 Under 40" list for 2018.[8][9]
In 2021, Doneen co-directed the Netflix documentary series Heist, along with Nick Frew and Martin Desmond Roe, about the story of three heists.[4]
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