Doug Dearth
DIRECTOR / PRODUCER
Doug Dearth grew up in Canton, Ohio before moving to Los Angeles in 1992. Doug’s producing career started in 1999 as Associate Producer on The Jack Bull, an HBO movie of the week, then wenton to serve as music-coordinator on the critically acclaimed “High Fidelity”. Doug teamed up again with New Crime Productions to co-produce the feature Grace Is Gone. Grace is Gone premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award: Dramatic and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award. It was then picked up for distribution by The Weinstein Company.
In 2008 Doug served as Co-Producer and Second Unit Director on the feature film War, Inc. He was also highly involved with the music for the film, supervising the production of multiple songs performed in the film by Hilary Duff and working with the film’s composer, David Robbins, to develop the score. In 2009 Doug directed and produced the award-winning documentary 9,000 Needles. A film which earned numerous accolades on the 2010 film festival circuit, including the
prestigious Audience Award and Best Documentary at the Phoenix Film Festival, as well as Best Feature Length Documentary at the DocuWest Film Festival in Golden, Colorado. In the spring of 2011, Doug will direct the feature film “Three Dog Night”, a film of which he also serves as a co-writer. Neve Campbell and David Wenham are slated to star in the film, which will be shot in Australia.
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DIRECTING
Three Dog Night (Pre-Production)
9000 Needles
War, Inc (2nd unit director)
PRODUCING
Jack The Bull
Grace is Gone