- Doug wrote, directed and edited BearCity (2010), BearCity 2: The Proposal (2012) and BearCity 3 (2016), all multiple award-winning breakout hits of the festival circuit, garnering Doug personally the 2010 Grand Jury Award for Best Screenplay by the prestigious Los Angeles film festival, Outfest. The Trilogy of films won several other Best Picture awards worldwide and the Outfest Grand Jury's best actor in a feature award.
Doug wrote, produced, directed and edited Raising Heroes (1996), the first gay action film, in what the influential online 'zine Film Threat raved was "a non-stop speeding bullet of a picture." The award-winning thriller played film festivals around the world including Outfest, Frameline (San Francisco), and the Edinburgh Film Festival.
Doug also appears as himself in Malcolm Ingram's 2010 documentary film Bear Nation (2010), and is a producer of Ingram's 2015 documentary film Out to Win (2015).
The BearCity Trilogy and Raising Heroes were released theatrically to rave reviews and sell-out crowds with tremendous support from built-in audiences.
Doug resides in Hell's Kitchen, NYC and Wilton Manors, Florida with his husband, Joseph Chapman.
- IMDb mini biography by: The BearCity Team
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