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Gene Cajayon (born circa 1970) is a Filipino American writer and director. He directed the independent film The Debut. He born in Vietnam to a Filipino father and French Vietnamese mother. Arriving in the United states after the war, the family settled in Orange County. They were one of the first Asian families on the street. Cajayon, recalling his experience from growing up in a white predominated Orange County, experience numerous amounts of racism. When his father took him to see Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1980, thats when he decided he wanted to be a filmmaker. He went to Mater Dei High School, a co-ed catholic high school. After high school, Cajayon attend UCLA and took a Filipino American history class. Cajayon, then attended Loyala Maymount film production program. It is during his senior year, that he came up with the idea for The Debut. Cajayon shot the first 10 mins of his script with Derek Basco playing a friend of the main character.

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