Quincy Perkins is an American

United States

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 director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 most famous for directing, producing and writing the controversial narrative fiction short film The Messenger which was pulled from the festival circuit in 2006.

"The Messenger" is based on an excerpt from David McCullough

David McCullough

David Gaub McCullough is an American author, narrator, historian, and lecturer. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award....

's biography of president Harry Truman.

Perkins is Technical Director of the Key West Film Institute.

Perkins produced and edited the feature-length documentary

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 Underwater: Making of the Key West Nutcracker. The film won Best Florida Documentary after its world premiere on November 4, at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.

Perkins graduated from Deerfield Academy

Deerfield Academy

Deerfield Academy is an independent, coeducational boarding school in Deerfield, Massachusetts, United States. It is a four-year college-preparatory school with approximately 600 students and about 100 faculty, all of whom live on or near campus....

 in 1998.

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