18 Facts About Douglas Gayeton

Douglas Gayeton is an American multimedia artist, filmmaker, writer, and photographer who divides his time between a farm near Petaluma, California and Pistoia, a medieval Tuscan town.

Douglas Gayeton is author of Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town and LOCAL: The new Face of Food and Farming in America.

Douglas Gayeton is the creator of Delta State and Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey.

Douglas Gayeton received his BA in Literature and Writing from the University of California, San Diego in 1983, where he studied under dramatists Adele Edling Shank and Alan Schneider.

In 1983 Douglas Gayeton directed La Entrada, a full-length documentary on the lives of Mexican migrant workers traveling to the US.

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Douglas Gayeton abandoned his Masters at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 1985 to start a production company called Brass Ball after receiving startup funding from Quincy Jones's Qwest Records.

Series of experimental films made with Italian music group Minox led to Douglas Gayeton signing with Satellite Films, a division of Propaganda Films in 1992.

In 1993 Douglas Gayeton directed Tomorrow, the first documentary about interactive television.

Douglas Gayeton provided creative support to Electronic Arts, Viacom, Sega, Intel, and National Geographic.

Douglas Gayeton then wrote and designed a CD-ROM sequel to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four with Media-X and designed an interactive version of Einstein's Dreams with writer Alan Lightman.

From 1997 to 2000 Douglas Gayeton worked with Alphanim, a Paris-based animation company, where he developed a number of animated television series, the most notable being Delta State, a project based on his graphic novel of the same name.

Douglas Gayeton's photographs merge his interests in narrative, film, and interactivity.

In 2002 Douglas Gayeton was hired by Scripps Networks Interactive to explore new forms of "enhanced television", namely programming that allows viewers to migrate from television to the Internet and back again.

In 2003 Douglas Gayeton was commissioned by PBS and POV to document Italy's Slow Food movement.

Douglas Gayeton focused on the lives of people from the town of Pistoia, Italy.

In 2007 Douglas Gayeton created the first machinima documentary made in a virtual world: "Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator: A Second Life Odyssey".

In 2009, Douglas Gayeton released his first book, Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town, which tells the story of the Slow Food Movement in Tuscany through a combination of photographs he took and essays.

In 2012, Douglas Gayeton released Know Your Food, a 25 short film series for PBS that introduced consumers to key terms and principles that can help them make more informed decisions about the food they eat.