Gregg Araki was born in Los Angeles, California in December 1959 and earned an MFA in film production from USC"s School of Cinematic Arts and a BA in film studies from UC Santa Barbara. His feature-film credits include Smiley Face, Mysterious Skin, Splendor, Nowhere, The Doom Generation, Totally F***ed Up, The Living End, The Long Weekend (o" Despair) and Three Bewildered People in the Night, most of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Araki"s films have screened at the world"s most prestigious film festivals, including Sundance, Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Toronto, Deauville, London, and New York.