Dylan Akio Smith (born September 21, 1974, in

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film director and producer.David Spaner, "Really good movies, ReelFast: Dylan Akio Smith had 48 hours to make winning film". ''

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'', August 26, 2003. He is most noted for his 2004 short film '' Man. Feel. Pain.'', which won the award for Best Canadian Short Film at the

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. His early short film ''Imetacanine'' won the award for best film at the ReelFast 48-Hour Film Festival in 2003. He also directed the feature film '' The Cabin Movie'' (2005), and was co-director with Kris Elgstrand of ''

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'' (2011). He has been a frequent collaborator with Elgstrand and Brad Dryborough in the Whatever Institute filmmaking collective.Katherine Monk, "An orgy in a cabin --how Canadian is that?". ''

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'', October 12, 2005. More recently he has worked as a cinematic director for

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, most notably on several installments of the '' FIFA'' video game series.

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* 1974 births Film directors from Vancouver Film producers from British Columbia Canadian people of Japanese descent Living people Canadian Film Centre alumni {{Canada-film-director-stub