Destin Daniel Cretton
Date of Birth: 23 Nov 1978
Country: USA
Biography: Born on the island of Maui to a Japanese-American mother and Irish-Slovak father, Destin Daniel Cretton moved to California at 19, where he worked at a home for troubled teenagers. That experience became the subject of his breakthrough feature Short Term 12.
Total Credits at Criticker: 7 (Director), 5 (Writer), 1 (Creator)
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Things are not looking good for Brook, a young, talented singer/songwriter who has become the clichéd tortured artist. Slow to come to terms with the death of his mother, Brook is self-absorbed, aggressive, and the major obstruction to his own career success. His isolation is lifted when his three sisters and estranged father come to spread his mother's ashes. (mubi.com)
Short Term 12 (2008) - Short Film
A day at a group home for troubled adolescents. Denim is the head counselor, involved somehow with Natalia, another counselor. During the day, we watch them and other staff deal with a boy who's getting into fights though he has only a week to go before his 18th birthday, a girl whose birthday it is, a foul-mouthed lad, and others. Denim uses music to calm one youth, orients a new staff member, sneaks a marijuana cigarette during a break, and by the day's end, talks to Natalia. (imdb)
Drakmar: A Vassal's Journey is a documentary of the life of a high school freshman outcast, Colin, who turns to escapism fantasy to avoid the difficulties of the real world, including growing up in a one parent household after his biological father left 6 days after he was born. However, through joining Adria, a Renaissance reenactment group, he finds a father figure in the knight to whom he is a vassal.
The filmmakers then undertake an effort to locate his biological father and reunite them
A 20-something supervising staff member of a foster care facility navigates the troubled waters of that world alongside her co-worker and longtime boyfriend. (imdb)
A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty. (imdb)
Just Mercy shadows world-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson as he recounts his experiences and details the case of a condemned death row prisoner whom he fought to free. (imdb)
Shang-Chi, the master of unarmed weaponry based Kung Fu, is forced to confront his past after being drawn into the Ten Rings organization. (imdb)