Derek Quick (Negane Meno) is a multi award-winning Native American/Hispanic Writer, Director, Producer, and U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard Veteran with over 10 years of military service. He is a member of the Ottawa tribe of Oklahoma and his grandfather Chuck Red Cedar Todd was the Chief of the tribe. Derek's films have screened at Academy Award and BAFTA Qualifying festivals around the world including Short Shorts Japan, Imagine Native, British Urban Film Fest, Hollyshorts, and Cannes with the American Pavilion. Derek's Film Kommando 1944 a WWII film about the Japanese Americans in Internment camp in Manzanar California won over 160 awards including Outstanding World War II Short Film winner at the 2019 Spielberg's Band Of brothers film festival, won two Telly awards for best director and best diversity film. He also won two Remmy awards for best director and best drama short film at the World Houston festival.

Derek has a Degree from The American Academy Of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles and studied film making at The New York Film Academy. He was accepted into the Writers Guild Veterans foundation in 2023 as well as the NBC Universal sponsored- Native American Media Alliance feature writers program.

His screenplays have been featured on the Blacklist website's top screenplays. Won and have advanced in numerous festivals including, Screen Craft Film Fund 2023, PAGE International Screenwriting Awards, Final Draft - Big Break 2023, StoryPros Awards 2023, Creative screenwriting Feature 2023, and Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Fest 2023.

Derek is also an active stock investor running his own stock fund since 2006 and is in the process of forming his own investment firm.

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Derek Quick at the La Skins festival at the Dolby Theater

Derek Quick, Mike Bingaman, Louie Chapman, Jeff Seid, and Brett Ian in Kommando 1944 (2018)

Daniel Joo, Derek Quick, Vincson Green, Mike Bingaman, Louie Chapman, Jeff Seid, Evan James Henderson, and Brett Ian in Kommando 1944 (2018)

Derek Quick, Raven Miles, and Celeste Clark in Camping (2023)

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