Graham Killeen

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Writer/Director Graham Killeen
Born
Graham John Killeen
Occupation(s) screenwriter
film director
film producer
actor
Spouse Mercedes Hacker
Awards2006 Best Milwaukee Filmmaker
Website http://www.signalfirefilms.com/blog/graham.asp

Graham Killeen (born 1980) is an American independent filmmaker. He is best known as the writer-director of Six Bullets , a short film that premiered at the NYC Downtown Film Festival in 2007. [1] He won the Shepherd Express Best of Milwaukee 2006 award for "Best Milwaukee Filmmaker". [2] Currently he is working on a feature-length drama titled Three Fifty-Five for the film company Signal Fire Films. [3]

Killeen was raised in Newburg and West Bend, Wisconsin. He holds a bachelor's degree in Theatre Arts from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, having graduated in 2007. Killeen is a film critic for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. [4]

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