Drake Doremus

Drake Doremus (born March 29, 1983) is a film director and screenwriter best known for directing the films Like Crazy (2011) which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Douchebag (2010) which was in Dramatic competition at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, and Spooner (2009). Doremus also taught at the Orange County High School of the Arts for a couple of semesters. His 2011 film Like Crazy has been described as loosely inspired by his real life experiences. In an interview, his ex-wife Desiree Pappenscheller, who was born in Austria, claims that the film is a reenactment of her and Doremus's romantic and marital history including her United States immigration problems.