Derek Lake

Derek Lake was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on December 7th, 1982. The son of an industrial salesman, Derek spent much of his youth moving through the suburbs of the northeast until finally settling down in the rural surroundings of upstate New York. It was here that his unlikely encounters with a few friends and a video camera would ultimately begin to define his path as a filmmaker. Derek started making short films as young as 13 and continued throughout high school. Eventually the hobby worked itself into a passion that would lead him to New York City where he graduated from film school at the School of Visual Arts. He lived in New York and wrote, directed, produced, and edited his own movies before he was sadly killed in a cycling accident in June 2006.