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      Terry Dillon (deleted) on March 24, 2011

      Congratulations! I only recently heard of your project and when I came to donate found the door closed. It sounds like you all had a blast doing what you love. I know we will soon be hearing of all it's successes. I'm really looking forward to the narration as well, as George has an amazing voice for narration! I intend to keep an eye on you - you're going places!

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      Pat Kline on March 4, 2011

      Congratulations, Derek! I can't wait to see it!

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      Trevor Ward on January 4, 2011

      So great to see you've reached your goal.

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      nancy e. leung on December 21, 2010

      kudos!!!! secretly, i knew you would make your goal, with all your good karma and stuff!!!! merry holidays...

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      Trevor Ward on December 21, 2010

      Congratulations on reaching your goal. Keep going.

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      Kerstin Klein on December 19, 2010

      great!

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      Bobby Hutchison on December 13, 2010

      I am so excited for this film!!!!!!!!!!

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      Elle Viane Sonnet on December 13, 2010

      AWESOME!

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Derek Nguyen is a screenwriter, producer, director, and playwright. Derek was a 2004 fellow at the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriters Lab for the screenplay adaptation of his play, Monster (Edgar Allen Poe nomination) and a 2004 Screenwriting Fellow at the New York Foundation for the Arts. Seeing Red (co-written and directed by Liselle Mei and Joan Chen) was a part of the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival’s All-Access Alumni Program, the 2007 IFP Market’s No Borders Program, and will be produced by Joyce Pierpoline (Happy Tears, Teeth) and Richard Lormand. Derek received the 2006 Urban Artist Initiative/NYC fellowship and is working on several film projects including creative consulting on Sundance Institute project Ayiti, Ayiti (written and directed by Patricia Benoit), writing Noguchi with director Risa Morimoto (Wings of Defeat), and writing The Caretaker (directed by Liselle Mei). Derek was recently the Associate Producer of a short film entitled Mister Green (written and directed by Greg Pak). In theater, Derek’s plays include Voices: A Theatrical Quilt (Sherrill C. Corwin Award), Mother’s Milk (Mark Taper Forum commission), A Slight Itch (Y2K New Voices Award), and Lee/gendary (three 2009 New York Innovative Theater Awards including Best Production of a Play).

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