About Derek
Derek has been acting since he was 7 years old. He is originally from Massachusetts, the state where he graduated high school and college earning his associate's degree in broadcasting and telecommunications.
While in collage Derek developed Coolwaters Productions LLC and produced his first 3 independent films which include Rescue Me (shot for the Drug Free America charity) and Shorts (a film containing 3 mini stories covering slap stick comedy, horror and a super hero special effects story).
After graduating from college Derek made the big move to Hollywood, California, where he currently resides and is continuing to pursue his acting and directing career. With years of frustration building (as it often does with actors) Derek decided to resurrect Coolwaters Productions LLC from his college years. Coolwaters is now producing many independent films standing behind the company's slogan; "Don't wait for Hollywood to make your film. Do it yourself"!
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His first major success is his award winning film "INSTANT DADS" which was nominated on the film festival circuit 5 times for "Best Film" and WON the honor twice! The film can be seen on AMAZON (free with Prime or for a nominal fee non-Prime members).
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Currently Derek has been producing documentary films. His biggest pride & joy in this area is getting "ALIENS" director JAMES CAMERON to do an precedented on camera interview for 'ALIENS EXPANDED" (which also included other rare interviews with actors like Carrie Henn "Newt" and Michale Biehn "Hicks").
His ties to actors like Ian McDiarmid "The Emperor" and his friendship with Billy Dee Williams "Lando Calrissian" gained him credit as a producer on the series "ICONS UNEARTHED".
His next project is one he calls his "Love Letter to Dougie" which will be a feature length, in-depth film on his friend & client, actor DOUG JONES, which includes interviews with some of Doug's co-stars and colleagues like: Noah Wyle, Sonequa Martin-Green, Mike Mignola, David Ajala, Jason Liles, David Kirschner and many more.
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Derek is President of Coolwaters Productions LLC, a management company, for established actors, that specializes in personal appearances, meet and greets, comic cons and autograph signings.
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