Aaron Douglas Johnston

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Aaron Douglas Johnston is an American filmmaker who is based in the Netherlands. He is known for the films Bumblefuck, USA , and My Sister's Quinceañera . [1] Both films focus on outsider themes and mixup the boundary between documentary and fiction through his use of non-professional actors. [2] [3] He has used community funding to provide the small budgets for his films. [4]

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Biography

Johnston was born in 1978 and raised in Muscatine, Iowa. [5] He studied sociology at Oxford and Yale before finding his way into filmmaking in the Netherlands. [6] In Amsterdam, he studied directing at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy, where he made the Sundance-selected short Today and Tomorrow, a drama made with and about political asylum seekers living in the Netherlands.

Awards

2014 Independent Spirit AwardsSomeone to Watch Award (Nominated) [7] [8]

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