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Garret
was born and raised in Southern California. As a teenager, he
played lead roles in youth theater productions at the Laguna Moulton
Playhouse in Laguna Beach. He also spent an awful lot of time
recording his own radio shows and, with the help of his brother
and sister, shooting stop-action films with their dad's video
camera.
He
got his B.A. in Film Studies at the University of California at
Santa Barbara where his experimental film, 1-24, won
the Bruce Corwin Award for Best Short and Best Cinematography.
In
Los Angeles, he edited movie trailers and feature films, including
the award-winning indie feature Olympia (Slamdance, Sundance
Channel). He has worked in New York City as a commercial
editor since 1997. During that time he managed to fit in a two-year
stint at The Atlantic Theatre Company's Acting Conservatory.
His
latest editing project is Justine Jacob and Alex Da Silva's feature
documentary Paper or Plastic?, likely to premiere at
a film festival in Spring of 2008.
As a director, his short comedies, The List and For
Food, and short documentaries, 4-Cylinder 400 and
Shoot the Freak, have played many festivals including
the Hamptons, Hawaii, Nantucket, Woodstock, Coney Island, Williamstown,
Crossroads, and Newport Beach. In early 2005 he was chosen by
The Independent magazine as one of their Top Short Filmmakers.
He
loves teaching and has been the Program Director for the Nantucket
Film Festival's Teen Filmmaking Program and has mentored with
Brooklyn's Reel Works Film Lab.
He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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