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- Craig Douglas (born on February 7, 1986) in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, He is an Award-winning Screenwriter and Film Director. Due to earlier school grades he was refused entry to a TV and Film Production course at Teesside University, so over the years he studied the work of Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and Martin Scorsese, which taught him how to make films and write screenplays, to which he owes his success to.
When he was a child he started writing short stories with his younger brother Callum, they would go on to make short videos and clips for friends and family.
They went on to start their own production company CCD Productions, using this label on videos and clips made for local companies. In 2019 Craig founded a new production company Pine Barrens Pictures, this he named after his favourite episode of the globally successful HBO show The Sopranos. In 2021 he formed the distribution and production company Douglasfilm Ltd.
He was a Kickstarter contributor on the Documentary Cleanin' Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters. He had a brief cameo in the highly rated BBC show Peaky Blinders. He has a number of titles on his resume including films that featured Doctor Who and The Hobbit star Sylvester McCoy and monster actor Doug Jones. In 2020 he featured in the true crime documentary Lee Duffy: Too Far, Too Soon. In September 2019 he signed on to the Dollar Baby Project writing the short film The Woman In The Room which is based on the short story by the best selling Horror writer Stephen King.- IMDb mini biography by: Craig Douglas
- SpouseClaire Elizabeth Douglas(June 13, 2015 - present) (2 children)
- His influences in directing are Steven Spielberg, Alan Parker, Kevin Smith, Rob Reiner, Spike Lee, Ivan Reitman, Martin Scorsese, Tyler Perry, Ava DuVernay, John Landis, James Cameron, John Singleton, Robert Zemeckis, Alfred Hitchcock, Jon Favreau, Wes Craven, Edward Burns, Shane Meadows, David Ayer, Mel Gibson and Pete Berg.
- Caroline Aherne, David Chase, Kevin Williamson, Bob Gale, Edward Burns, Drew Pearce, John Hughes, Craig Cash, Phil Mealey, Terence Winter, Kevin Smith, Michael Imperioli, Shane Black and Guy Ritchie are big influences in his Screenwriting.
- Some of his film inspirations are The Wizard of Oz (1939), Jaws (1975), Hook (1991), Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989), Titanic (1997), Back To The Future (1985), Stand by Me (1986), Clerks (1994), He Got Game (1998), Chef (2014), The Godfather (1972), The Godfather: Part II (1974), Sidewalks of New York (2001) and The Man Without A Face (1993).
- Films such as The Wizard of Oz (1939), Jaws (1975), Ghostbusters (1984) and Back To The Future (1985) are the influences that interested him in to writing and film making.
- He became a father in December 2013, and again in November 2021.
- All I ever wanted to do was to write and make films.
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