Don Dunn(I)
- Producer
- Additional Crew
- Production Manager
Award winning, freelance filmmaker Don Dunn began his career in 1986
upon graduation from high school where he majored in television
production and honed his early skills as a Director, Shooter/Editor. A
self motivated individual Don started his own video production company
at age 18 and worked as a Producer, Director, Cameraman, and Editor for
five years. He also ran a small cable television production/broadcast
station for the L.A.U.S.D. while studying feature film production at
the California State University Northridge and working as an extra on movies and TV series. Upon completion of his
Bachelors Degree in Film in the early 90s, Don started over at the
bottom of the feature film business as an on set Production Assistant . Through very hard work, and using
his physical production knowledge and experience he rose from
Production Assistant to Unit Production Manager within a years time.
Don's broad background and can do attitude has allowed him the
opportunity to work many great professionals and succeed in many
different areas of film making including Producing, Directing, Line
Producing, Production Managing, Assistant Directing, Location Managing,
and Post Production Supervising. After achieving over 50 feature film
and television credits,Don was tapped by prolific
Producer/Director/Actor Brian Robbins in 2009 to produce "Fred:The
Movie" which became the highest rated cable television movie in history
with over 12 million views in it's premier on Nickelodeon. This led Don
to Produce/Production Manage several series and feature films for Mr. Robbins,
including the Pilot and two seasons of "Supah Ninjas" 39 episodes, 24
episodes of "Fred:The Show", The feature film "Camp Fred" (nominated
for a 2013 DGA Award), Richie Rich, one of Netflix first original series, the feature film "Expelled" the number one I Tunes Download in December 2014, he served as Executive Producer on "The Smosh Movie" 2015, and several other projects for Mr. Robbins and ATV/Dreamworks Animation, in addition to freelance consulting on many other outside projects. In 2015 Don was again tapped by MR. Robbins to be the Head of Physical Production for Feature Films and Television for Awesomeness TV and Awesomeness Films Studio division, which grew to become one of the leading young adult content creators in the world, where he has produce hundreds of hours of original content including the Award Winning feature film trilogy To All The Boys I've Loved Before, two time Emmy winning series Trinkets, Emmy Nominated series Pen15 and Light As A Feather and dozens of other projects. Don continues to produce series and feature films for Awesomness , Nickelodeon and Paramount Plus under the banner of Paramount Global.