Award-winning documentary filmmaker Doug Pray‘s exuberant portraits of subcultures and maverick individuals have led him to three Sundance premieres, critical raves, numerous awards, and worldwide distribution.
His feature documentaries include the Emmy Award-winning “Art & Copy,” a film about creativity and advertising; “Big Rig” a 40,000 mile road film about independent, long-haul truck drivers; “Infamy,” an intense journey into the lives and art of six notorious graffiti writers; “Scratch,” a celebration of hip-hop DJs and turntablism; his first film, “Hype!,” which tells the story about the emergence and explosion of the early ’90s Seattle music scene that remains on Rolling Stone’s Top 10 list of best rock DVD’s of all time; and “Surfwise” the amazing odyssey of the Paskowitz surfing family.
Doug has directed dozens of commissioned short films and documentary-style commercials for a wide range of major clients, including an AIDS awareness campaign which also won him his first Emmy, and Scion’s recent “Make Every Second Count” campaign from global creative agency ATTIK. This work is produced and represented by Bob Industries in Santa Monica, California. Born in Denver, he grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, has a BA in sociology from Colorado College, and an MFA from the UCLA School of Film and Television. He lives in Los Angeles where he is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, The Directors Guild of America, and has served on the jury of numerous film festivals including Sundance, SXSW, AFI, Big Sky, and Silverdocs.
