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Jaco Dukes is a film director from Chile. Dukes enrolled at the New York Film Academy in 2011 for his MFA, where he lived and breathed filmmaking. He then went on to write and direct his award winning short films Silent and Mikey. His first feature film El Guardia, based on the life story of Juan Rosado, was met with international acclaim and premiered at Le Marché du Film Cannes Film Festival. 

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Program Studied at NYFA: Filmmaking
Program Type: MFA
Year Attended/Graduated: 2013
Location: Los Angeles


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