Roger Ingraham
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Roger Ingraham is the director of the film
Film
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  Moonshine
Moonshine (2006 film)
Moonshine is a 2006 film written and directed by Roger Ingraham.It was chosen to screen at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2006.It was made on a $9,700 budget including the purchase of a 24p digital camera ....

, which premiered at the 2006 Sundance Festival. He started the film in 2003 at the age of 19 and finished editing it in 2006.

Roger Ingraham was born in Stafford Springs, Connecticut
Connecticut
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, in 1984. After sophomore year of high school
High school
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, he convinced his parents to let him drop out of high school to home-school himself. He spent his days reading, writing, playing video games, and, on a more studious note, passing some university art classes and studying in Costa Rica
Costa Rica
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 for a year. He moved to Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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, and two short films, a PA job, and one year later, he retired back home to write and direct Moonshine, his first feature.

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