Hej, Kamusta, Hello!

I’m Duane Hansen Fernandez
Writer
Director
Producer
Host of The Smith Society Podcast
Collector
Part-time Physicist
Full-time Fixer

I am a writer, director, and producer with roots in marketing and advertising. In 2015, after 12 years dedicated to entertainment marketing, I launched VOKSEE, a visionary film and television production company.

I’ve been so incredibly grateful to have worked with some of the greatest leaders in the industry, from Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Disney, Marvel, Searchlight, A24, Focus Features, Universal Pictures, and Lionsgate, to Paramount, Sony Pictures, NBC, Fox, and FX. I spent much of my career breaking through archaic methodologies and introducing leading-edge techniques to drive returns, and in a way I suppose I still am. I’ve been honored to have launched several marquee films, shows, franchises, networks, and studios, but it was my work on awards films that truly inspired me. Getting to work with some of the greatest filmmakers in history refined my understanding of storytelling at a large scale. Over the years those campaign efforts and collaborations have garnered 24 HFPA nominations, seven Golden Globes, 42 Academy Award nominations and eight Oscars.

Currently, I’m working a new feature length script titled A Beautiful Disaster. We’re in preproduction on my first narrative short film titled, A Place to Fall Down, starring Clifton Collins Jr. I directed two music videos: Risk, with my long time collaborators, the band Metric; the other for Netflix and Alessia Cara’s song, I Choose, for the film The Willoughbys. Together these videos have garnered over 30,000,000 views.

I also directed one of the first short-form documentary series for Netflix, Making of OITNB. The six-episode series was a look back at the impact of one of the most acclaimed and culturally relevant shows in broadcast history. Along with other short-form documentary projects for Aston Martin and the legendary guitarist Johnny Marr.

As a writer I have written four feature-length scripts, two pilots, five narrative shorts, a series of short stories and of course a vault of zines.

John August, Screenwriter and Director
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John August, Screenwriter and Director

What’s most impressive about John August is not his incredible body of work (although it is impressive), it’s his willingness to share his knowledge with anyone who seeks it.

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Alex Bogusky Interview
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Alex Bogusky Interview

Alex Bogusky began his career over 20 years ago when he joined Crispin and Porter Advertising in 1989 as an art director. Alex became the creative director five years later, a partner in 1997, and co-chairman in 2008. Under Alex’s direction, Crispin Porter + Bogusky grew to more than 1,000 employees, with offices in Miami, Boulder, Los Angeles, London and Sweden, and with annual billings over $1Billion.

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Erika Christensen, Actor
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Erika Christensen, Actor

You might know Erika Christensen from her role as Julia Braverman Graham on Parenthood, or any of the amazing other roles she’s done. Case in point: Swimfan, Traffic, The Perfect Score, and just when you think she can’t get any cooler, she lends her voice to the hysterical Robot Chicken.

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