Gregg Araki

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AKA: Gregg Y Araki
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 12/17/1959
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA

biography

A self-styled "guerrilla filmmaker" (because he often films without permits and pays his actors very little), Gregg Araki's features are tinged with ironic nihilism and reflect the boredom, despair and inadequacy of segments of American youth who consider themselves outside the mainstream. The openly gay, Asian-American was born and raised in Southern California and made his first feature, "Three Bewildered People in the Night" (1987), on a budget of $5000. Shot in grainy black and white with a stationary camera, the film was a character study of a love triangle between an aspiring video Continued

Credits

Producer
2007
Director
2007
Screenplay
2005
Producer
2005
Director
2005
Producer
1999
Director
1999
screenplay
1999
Producer
1997
Director
1997
screenplay
1997
Producer
1995
Director
1995
screenplay
1995
Producer
1993
Director
1993
screenplay
1993
Himself
Director
screenplay

milestones

Year
Milestone
 
Raised in Santa Barbara, California
1987 
Directed first feature (reportedly for $5,000), "Three Bewildered People in the Night"
1992 
Breakthrough feature "The Living End" released
1993 
Began his "teenage" trilogy with "Totally F***ed Up"
1995 
First feature with budget of $1 million, "The Doom Generation"
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