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Darren Dean is an American producer, writer and director, and a four-time Independent Spirit Award nominee (including the prestigious Independent Spirit Piaget Producer’s Award). With frequent collaborator Sean Baker, he created the award winning features PRINCE OF BROADWAY (which he co-wrote), tangerine, and 2017’s Oscar nominated THE FLORIDA PROJECT. He has also produced such award-winning fare as 2010’s KINYARWANDA (dir Alrick Brown), which won the World Cinema Audience Award at Sundance, and THE INFILTRATORS (dirs. Alex Rivera & Cristina Ibarra), which won the NEXT Audience Award and NEXT Innovator Prize at Sundance in 2019, Spirit Award nominee PREMATURE, Sabrina Carpenter's first feature leading role in THE SHORT HISTORY OF THE LONG ROAD. He has also been nominated for an NAACP Image Award (KINYARWANDA) and has won the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Feature (for the groundbreaking tangerine). His 2025 releases include THE WELCOME TABLE (dir by Josh Fox) for HBO and BARRACUDAS AT THE TABLE (dir Erin Elders).