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BIO
Texas-based filmmaker Dex Decker began her career as a story analyst for Michael Douglas’ production company, Furthur Films [sic], and Robert De Niro’s scholarship program at Tribeca Films, TAA Connects. She formed her own production company, NYCe Pictures, in 2007 and went on to write, direct and produce her first feature, Once Upon a Film, which garnered several awards on the festival circuit, including the Jury Award at the Bluegrass Independent Film Festival. The film went on to secure distribution with Cinetic Media.
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Decker's second feature film, Prairie Dogs, starring Lorelei Linklater (Boyhood) and Nikki Lowe (In the Middle of the River), won the Austin Film Society Feature Film Grant (2019). After several Covid delays, the film is currently in post-production.
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In 2021, Decker's script Black Mambas, APU was a semi-finalist for The Writer's Lab.
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In 2022, she shot, directed and edited the feature music documentary The Road to Eleven Hundred Springs about the eponymous Texas band. Like her hero, Werner Herzog, Decker chooses to work in both narrative and documentary genres. In addition to the music documentary, she has created two short documentaries about the Blackland Prairie Raptor Center, highlighting the importance of prairie restoration and raptor rehabilitation. Her second, Spring, is working the festival circuit.
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In 2023, she was awarded the LA Film Prize Development Grant for her short film Jolie Blonde which is also working the festival circuit.
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Additionally, Decker has worked with Academy Award director Peter Bogdanovich (One Lucky Moon), a film he was working on at the time of his passing, as well as Willie Nelson and his production company, Luck Films. She has produced commercials for Clairol, Herbal Essences, eDiets, as well as numerous music videos. Her short films include The Cloud, a meditation on grief and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem of the same name, and Girl, the short film from which Prairie Dogs was adapted.
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Currently, she is a solo shooter. She produces, writes, directs, shoots and edits her own films, but she hopes the future brings financial opportunities to expand her team.