Dustin Guy Defa
Directing
Biography
Dustin Guy Defa is a film and television actor, writer and director.
Born: January 1, 1978
Place of Birth: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Known For
The Show About the Show
Independent Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi is trying to make a television show. He persuades BRIC TV, a Brooklyn non-profit Arts organization, to finance a television show whose premise is that every episode will be about the making of the previous episode. In the process of creating the show, everything can-and does-go wrong. The cast, a who's who of Brooklyn's independent filmmaking community, includes Alex Karpovsky, Eleonore Hendricks, Dustin Defa, and Onur Tukel.
The Show About the Show
Independent Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi is trying to make a television show. He persuades BRIC TV, a Brooklyn non-profit Arts organization, to finance a television show whose premise is that every episode will be about the making of the previous episode. In the process of creating the show, everything can-and does-go wrong. The cast, a who's who of Brooklyn's independent filmmaking community, includes Alex Karpovsky, Eleonore Hendricks, Dustin Defa, and Onur Tukel.
Heart of a Dog
Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse subjects as family memories, surveillance, and Buddhist teachings.
Easy
This eclectic, star-studded anthology follows diverse Chicagoans fumbling through the modern maze of love, sex, technology and culture. First dates, friends with benefits, couples with kids. Whatever your relationship status is, it's always complicated.
Bad Fever
A humorless loner attempts to win the admiration of a drifter with his debut performance at the local comedy club.
Entertainment
Set in the Mojave Desert, the film follows a broken-down comedian playing clubs across the Southwest, working his way to Los Angeles to meet his estranged daughter.
Hermia & Helena
Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York to attend an artistic residency to develop a Spanish translation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Upon her arrival, she begins to receive a series of mysterious postcards which set her down a winding path through her past and towards her future.
Uncle Kent 2
In a desperate search to create a follow-up to Joe Swanberg's 2011 film Uncle Kent, Kent Osborne travels to a comic book convention in San Diego where he loses his mind and confronts the end of the world.
Open Five 2
A relationship drama set amid a winter van trip from New York to New Orleans. A loose continuation of the 2010 film.
Wild Canaries
When their elderly neighbor suddenly drops dead, a young Brooklyn couple investigates signs of foul play.
Filmography
as himself
as Aziz
as Therapist
as Gregg
as Ringo Starr from Caveman
as Gordon Matta-Clark
as Aziz
as Ruben
as Man on Cellphone
as Gavin
as Leeward
as Clay
as Taco
as Larry