Drue Metz comes from a new age of filmmakers birthed during the “digital revolution”, wherein he began filmmaking at age 9, making movies on his family’s Hi8 or “Super 8” digital camera. Coming from the San Francisco Bay Area, Drue moved to Los Angeles in 2006 to pursue his "indescribable" passion for filmmaking. "For me, film is a medium that can be utilized to communicate meaning, hope, understanding and love to people. I feel that through story, character and image, we can articulate these messages in ways so that they may be redeemed in our growth, relationships and essentially--our lives."


Before Drue was even ten years old, his family lived in over ten different homes all over California. "Moving around so much only made me grow up quicker. Always changing schools and cycling friends took a huge toll on my childhood and my education. Yet through movies, my imagination was boundless—it would soar. I suppose my yearning for friends and stability was fulfilled through escapism with movies." Drue never took school seriously until he discovered his first Film production class in high school. "Since I moved around so much, school meant nothing to me, neither did my education. It wasn't till I found something in school that allowed me to be creative that I started taking it seriously. From there on, I didn’t just become a student, or a ‘film student’, I became a student of life." As an ambitious young artist, Drue’s self-proclaimed mission is to write and direct his own films, films that instill "socially redeeming values." "Movies changed my life," Drue explains. "They inspired me, they made me dream, explore, discover. And they taught me about life and love. I'd like to offer that same experience with my films.”


Beverle Singer, Biographer, Fine Arts Affiliates