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10 Facts About Damon Packard

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Damon Packard was born on May 4,1967 and is an American underground film director and actor.

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Damon Packard first became seriously involved with film at the age of 11.

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Damon Packard spent his teens and twenties working on experimental shorts while supporting himself variously as a movie theater usher, security specialist and wrist-watch salesman.

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Damon Packard spent the inheritance on Reflections of Evil, a long treatise on contemporary American paranoia.

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Damon Packard pressed 23,000 DVD copies of the film and made them available for free.

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Damon Packard sent thousands of them to celebrities, whose reactions were recorded on his website.

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Damon Packard is known for his sharp and highly pessimistic view of the movie business, often commenting on how directors have no control of their work and that artistic vision is sacrificed for profit.

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Nevertheless, Damon Packard says he admires the recent work of Lars Von Trier and Alexander Sokurov among others.

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In 2011, Damon Packard began work on his long-gestating feature Foxfur, about a young girl involved with aliens from the Billy Meier contacts.

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In late 2014, Damon Packard began working on a new feature film then known as The Untitled Yuppie Fear Thriller.