Dustin Guy Defa

Known for Directing

1/1/1978(Age 47)

Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Biography

Dustin Guy Defa is a film and television actor, writer and director.

Known For (19 credits)

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I Wish I Were a Camera

2025

Each day of 2024 is represented by one minute of footage. Two transgender filmmakers in a long-distance relationship document their personal lives for an entire year as a form of therapy. The project forces the couple to examine who they are as individuals, lovers, and artists in a world that threatens their existence.

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Joel Calls Indie Film Type Dudes

2020

Joel Potrykus calls fellow indie filmmakers during the pandemic crisis to check in and see how they're holding up.

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Dustin Guy Defa

2017

Interview with Dustin Guy Defa. Recorded in New York City, March 2017.

8.0

Movie

The Show About the Show

2017

Independent Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi is trying to make a television show. He persuades BRIC TV, a Brooklyn non-profit Arts organization, to finance a television show whose premise is that every episode will be about the making of the previous episode. In the process of creating the show, everything can-and does-go wrong. The cast, a who's who of Brooklyn's independent filmmaking community, includes Alex Karpovsky, Eleonore Hendricks, Dustin Defa, and Onur Tukel.

6.1

Easy

2016

This eclectic, star-studded anthology follows diverse Chicagoans fumbling through the modern maze of love, sex, technology and culture. First dates, friends with benefits, couples with kids. Whatever your relationship status is, it's always complicated.

5.5

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Hermia & Helena

2016

Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York to attend an artistic residency to develop a Spanish translation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Upon her arrival, she begins to receive a series of mysterious postcards which set her down a winding path through her past and towards her future.

5.7

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Uncle Kent 2

2016

In a desperate search to create a follow-up to Joe Swanberg's 2011 film Uncle Kent, Kent Osborne travels to a comic book convention in San Diego where he loses his mind and confronts the end of the world.

6.6

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Heart of a Dog

2015

Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse subjects as family memories, surveillance, and Buddhist teachings.

8.3

The Show About the Show

2015

5.7

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Entertainment

2015

Set in the Mojave Desert, the film follows a broken-down comedian playing clubs across the Southwest, working his way to Los Angeles to meet his estranged daughter.

5.1

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Wild Canaries

2014

When their elderly neighbor suddenly drops dead, a young Brooklyn couple investigates signs of foul play.

4.8

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Summer of Blood

2014

Lousy lover and egocentric Eric Sparrow is dumped by his girlfriend after rejecting her marital proposal. After a few failed dates his luck turns when a chance encounter with a vampire turns him into a sex god.