Douglas Buck is the acclaimed director of Family Portraits and Sisters.; currently, he is working on The Broken Imago.

Buck grew up on Long Island, New York State, and originally trained as an electrician. Supporting himself as an engineer (eventually overseeing the electrical airfield design work for both JFK and LaGuardia Airports), Buck began making short films.

While preparing the notorious "Cutting Moments" as a school project, Buck met his future wife Rita Romagnino, and future writing partner John Freitas.  Buck and Romagnino were Freitas' students at the School of Visual Arts, New York City.  In roughly the same time frame, Buck became friendly with filmmakers including Gaspare Noé, Nacho Cerda, Abel Ferrara - for whom Buck worked for some time - underground writer Zoe Lund, and also future collaborator Larry Fessenden. 

Three early short films Buck directed are collected as Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America.  Individually, the films are titled "Cutting Moments," "Home," and "Prologue."  The extraordinary power of those films led to legendary producer Ed Pressman hiring Buck - at Fessenden's suggestion - to direct a remake of the 1973 film Sisters, whose initial version Brian DePalma had directed for Pressman.  Finished in 2007 and released in 2008, Sisters stars Chloë Sevigny and Stephen Rea, and introduces Lou Doillon.  John Freitas co-wrote the script.

Today, Buck and Romagnino live with their daughter in Montréal, Québec, which is Romagnino's hometown.  Buck is represented by the Gersh agency, Beverly Hills.

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