THE TEAM
For over 20 years, Dollars & Donuts Productions has been a homemade repertory movie studio built by lifelong friends, family, and an ever-growing cast of co-conspirators.
Founded by Daryl Della in 2003, the company began with a camcorder and a handful of friends making movies in the Bay Area simply because they wanted to see them exist. More than two decades later, that experiment has grown into an independent film mythology spanning shorts, features, music videos, comics, live premieres, and a recurring universe of characters and collaborators.
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Daryl Della
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Sasha Boggs
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Becker von felsburg
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Ray Revello
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Kayla Emerson
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Rich Castromayor
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Lorenzo Ocon
Our Story
The easiest way to describe Dollars & Donuts might be this: a movie studio with the memory of a family scrapbook, the taste of a video store, the instincts of a cartoon, and the self-mythology of a rock band.
Our work moves freely between noir, westerns, horror, science fiction, music videos, thrillers, and low-brow absurdist comedy. The genre may change, but the sensibility rarely does. We like losers, eccentrics, doomed romantics, bad decisions, old cars, strange creatures, sudden violence, and ridiculous ideas treated with tremendous seriousness.
Just as important as the films are the people inside them. Friends become actors. Actors become lifers. Children grow up on camera. Old characters return decades later. People drift away, come back, grow older, and sometimes live on only in the work.
That history is part of the point.
Dollars & Donuts treats making things as a way of refusing to let time erase people.
The films may be vulgar, sentimental, strange, funny, melancholy, or all of those at once. Underneath the sarcasm, though, we are deeply earnest about one thing:
If something mattered to us, it deserves to be remembered.
