Graham Streeter
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film director
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and screenwriter
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Streeter was raised in northern California
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until high school. He lived in Osaka, Japan for 10 years while working in television and production, then returned to the United States and attended California State University, Sacramento
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. Streeter earned a double degree in international business administration
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and Japanese
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, then worked for Nippon Television
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is a television network based in the Shiodome area of Minato, Tokyo, Japan and is controlled by the Yomiuri Shimbun publishing company. Broadcasting terrestrially across Japan, the network is commonly known as , contracted to , and abbreviated as "NTV" or "AX".-Offices:*The Headquarters : 6-1,...
in Los Angeles
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as a television field producer.
Streeter began his career in filmmaking by making short films, such as Crickets & Potatoes, a look at the absurdity of holiday dinner gatherings, and Frank in Five, with Paul Winfield
Paul Winfield
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, Gedde Watanabe
Gedde Watanabe
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, and Zelda Rubinstein
Zelda Rubinstein
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Streeter wrote and directed the 2005 film Cages
Cages
Cages is a 2005 film, directed by American film director Graham Streeter which tells the story of a single mother named Ali Tan who attempts to escape repeated bad releationships which puts her before the man she resents the most—her father, Tan...
starring Mako Iwamatsu, Zelda Rubinstein
Zelda Rubinstein
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and Bobby Tonelli
Bobby Tonelli
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. The film stayed in release in Asia for four weeks in 2007 and was the first Asian film to be purchased by the Hallmark Channel
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