Randal Kirk II is an American film director, writer, producer, and cinematographer.

Career

Kirk graduated from the

University of Denver The University of Denver (DU) is a private research university in Denver, Colorado, United States. Founded in 1864, it has an enrollment of approximately 5,700 undergraduate students and 7,200 graduate students. It is classified among "R1: D ...

with a BA in 2006. His first job out of college was work for

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. In 2009 producing for the company the pilot project ''Homeless Real World''. In 2010, he was the director and producer of the short film ''Pawned'', which was a Golden Duck award nominee for Best Short Narrative at the 2010 Beijing Film Festival. He has directed music videos for King Fantastic's songs ''On Q'' and ''Why? Where? What?'', and the video for Matt Zarley's song ''WTF''. He also directed and produced the video for ''The Saga of Dirty Street Kids'' by The Pirate Signal. In 2011 he directed the short film ''The Working Man''. In 2012 Kirk directed and created the story for the feature film ''DGK: Parental Advisory'', which according to

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, is "based on the adventures of a group of kids as they bump into the DGK riders", with the kids representing "younger versions of the DGK team". Kirk wrote much of the script for ''DGK: Parental Advisory'', describing it as "a ghetto fairy tale that takes place inside the mind of the DGK rider Baby Scumbag aka Steven Fernandez". The film was nominated for the 2013 ''

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'' Award for best skateboarding video. In 2013 Kirk directed the branded short skate film Casio Team G-Shock Stevie Williams Featuring G-Steel.

References

External links

Official website
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