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    Destin Daniel Cretton

    Film director and screenwriter

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      • Cretton was born and raised in Haiku, Hawaii on the island of Maui. He is of half-Japanese descent.
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  1. Early life. Cretton was born and raised in Haiku, Hawaii on the island of Maui. He is of half-Japanese descent. [2] [3] He was home-schooled by his Christian mother. [4] [5] His sister Joy is a costume designer who has worked on several of Destin's projects. [6] .

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    • 2002–present
  2. Mar 14, 2019 · Ethnicity: *fatherIrish, Slovak *motherJapanese. Destin Daniel Cretton is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and editor. He has directed the films I Am Not a Hipster, Short Term 12, both of which he wrote; The Glass Castle, Just Mercy, and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, all of which he co-wrote.

  3. 34 Photos. Destin Daniel Cretton is an American filmmaker, writer and producer from Haiku, Hawaii. He is known for directing The Glass Castle, I Am Not a Hipster, Short Term 12, Just Mercy and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. He is the second Asian-American filmmaker to direct a Marvel film following Ang Lee's Hulk.

    • Producer, Director, Writer
    • November 23, 1978
    • 3 min
  4. Sep 3, 2021 · CNN — Destin Daniel Cretton is reflecting on what his younger self would have made of all this. His new movie tells the story of Shang-Chi, the first Asian superhero to lead a Marvel film. A...

  5. Dec 18, 2021 · Interviews. Shang-Chi Director Destin Daniel Cretton On How His Asian American Upbringing Brought Authenticity To The Marvel Movie. Voices. By Erik Swann. published 18 December 2021....

  6. Born in Hawaii to a Japanese-American hairdresser and a firefighter of Irish and Slovakian descent, Cretton became a lauded talent via his 2013 film “Short Term 12,” which starred “Captain...

  7. Cretton was born in 1978 in Haiku, Hawaii on the island of Maui, the son of Janice Harue Cretton, a Japanese American hairdresser and Daniel Cretton, of Irish and Slovak ancestry, who worked for the fire department.

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