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"Up Syndrome" wins Grand Prize at Kevin Smith's Movies Askew 2006
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"Duane's honest approach to filmmaking is highly organic...very promising and solid, and truly inspirational..."
- Brian Nilred, Guerrilla Filmmaker magazine
"...Duane is a visionary to be reckoned with...destined for recognition glory."

- Indie Vision magazine
Check me out on the IMDB .
Or, visit Trisomy Films online.
CLICK HERE to watch a short comedy we made called Rio Peligroso on iFilm.com.
CLICK HERE to watch a short version of a feature documentary I did called Up Syndrome on iFilm.com.
CLICK HERE to add two of our short horror films to your Netflix list ( The Hypostatic Union and Voltagen on the " Feeding the Masses " DVD, also available at Blockbuster Video stores)
Duane arrived on the independent film scene shortly after graduating from a TV/Film program at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi, Texas. He made his directing debut in 2000 with the critically-acclaimed feature documentary Up Syndrome , which embarked on a year-long tour of film festivals around the globe and garnered international press. While continuing film studies at the University of Texas at Austin, Duane co-founded and continues to operate his own production company, Greeks Productions , with film school peer Justin Meeks .
Duane has been awarded with numerous film festival accolades including Best Documentary honors at the 2001 Brooklyn International Film Festival, 2000 Fort Worth Film Festival and the 2000 Temecula Valley International Film Festival. He also received a Best Editing nod for Up Syndrome at the 2001 Brooklyn International Film Festival and a Grand Jury nomination at the 2001 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Most recently, Duane accepted the National Media Award - Video from the National Down Syndrome Congress in August, 2002.
To date, Duane's work has been featured in over ten international film festivals including Los Angeles, New York, Park City, Austin, Dallas and Berlin. He was awarded a Texas Filmmaker Production Fund grant by Bennett Miller (Capote) and David Gordon Green (Undertow) for the Austin Film Society in August, 2001, and has been interviewed or reviewed in publications such as Daily Variety, Guerrilla Filmmaker, Indie Slate, Indie Vision, Film Threat and Style & the Family Tunes, a pop-culture magazine in Germany. Duane also sat on a screenwriting panel with Philip Stark (Dude, Where's My Car?) and Clay Tarver (Joy Ride) at the 2002 CineSA Film Focus in San Antonio, Texas.
In the spring of 2002, Duane finished production on a trilogy of short black and white 16mm experimental/horror films titled HEADCHEESE , Voltagen and The Hypostatic Union with collaborator Justin Meeks. The trilogy was co-produced by Kim Henkel , scribe of the original seminal horror film The Texas Chain Saw Masscare and the critically-acclaimed indy gem Last Night At the Alamo . The shorts screened in several film festivals, including Slamdance , and were all recently acquired by EI Independent Cinema for international DVD releases. HEADCHEESE was also featured in Cult Movies magazine and Shock Cinema magazine, which described Duane's cinematography as having the "gritty backwoods atmosphere of some lost grindhouse classic."
Duane is currently working in Austin, Texas, and has written or co-written two feature-length scripts: a coming-of-age comedy set in the '80's titled Thunderbird Hills which advanced to the final round of the Sundance Institute's 2007 Feature Film Program Labs, as well as a horror/thriller titled The Wild Man of the Navidad with co-writer Justin Meeks , currently in post-production under Greeks Productions, Inc. The collaborators recently completed another comedy short titled Rio Peligroso: A Day in the Life of a Legendary Coyote , which director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back) describes as an "antic, hysterical" film. Rio won Round 1 of Smith's Movies Askew short film contest, and will be widely released on two separate DVD's in 2006.
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CLICK HERE to purchase a DVD or download Up Syndrome in a DVD quality file.
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Watch a shorter version of Up Syndrome available on iFilm.com HERE.
CLICK HERE to watch Rio Peligroso on iFilm.com.
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CLICK HERE to read about the making of Rio Peligroso on Kevin Smith's website.
CLICK HERE to check out HEADCHEESE on iFilm.com.
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CLICK HERE for a list of retailers carrying HEADCHEESE on DVD.