Dane Clark (filmmaker)

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Dane Clark is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Peterborough, Ontario, most noted as co-director with his wife Linsey Stewart of the films I Put a Hit on You [1] and Suze . [2]

Clark and Stewart have also directed a number of short films, including Long Branch, Margo Lily and Bickford Park, and cocreated the web series The Commute. [3]

Clark, an alumnus of the Canadian Film Centre, also wrote the screenplay for the 2012 film Old Stock , [4] and has been a writer and story editor for the television series Mr. D and Run the Burbs .

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