Roland Tec is an American writer and movie director. His 1997 film '' All the Rage'' is widely considered a hallmark of the Queer Indie Film Movement of the '90s for what was then its unprecedented critical view of A-list gay male culture of perfection.

Biography

Early life and education

Tec was raised in

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, by his Jewish-Polish and Holocaust-survivor parents Leon and

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. His father was a child psychiatrist. His mother is a sociology professor at the

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at Stamford and the author of ''Defiance: The Bielski Partisans'', which was later adapted into the 2008 film '' Defiance''. As a student at Harvard and

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, Tec studied music composition with composers

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, and

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Career

Prior to his work in film, Tec was the founder and artistic director of New Opera Theatre Ensemble, a Boston-based improvisational opera company which mounted new work in such venues as The

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and The Charles Hayden Planetarium at

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. ''All the Rage'' was seen by John Tilley at the 1997 Los Angeles gay and lesbian film festival,

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, and brought to Mike Thomas, who with Marcus Hu had founded

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. Prior to his work in film, Tec had several of his musical compositions performed, among them operas, vocal music and chamber music.New York Times - Renee B. Fischer Piano Competition 1987
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in 2000, Tec continued his work in theatre, mounting shows such as ''Bodily Function'', which was produced at The Culture Project, and ''The Wreck Behind Us'' at the Duplex. In 2007, Tec co-produced

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's film '' Defiance'', an adaptation of the book by the same name written by Tec's mother. Tec's film ''We Pedal Uphill'' is a tapestry of Post-9/11 America, released in 2008 by Cinevolve Studios.

Filmography

*1995: ''Hooking Up'', composer, director, producer, writer *1997: '' All the Rage'', composer, director, producer, writer *2001: ''

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'', New York Production Liaison *2008: ''We Pedal Uphill'', composer, director, producer, writer *2008: '' Defiance'', co-producer

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tec, Roland Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Harvard University alumni Brandeis University alumni American male composers 21st-century American composers American film producers People from Westport, Connecticut American people of Polish-Jewish descent Film directors from Connecticut