Craig Detweiler is a filmmaker, author, and cultural commentator. He has been professor of cinema and culture at both Pepperdine and Biola Universities.
Feature films he has written include
The Duke (1999) and
Extreme Days (2001). As a director, his documentary
Williams Syndrome: A Highly Musical Species (1996) won a Cine Golden Eagle and the Crystal Heart Award at the Heartland Film Festival. His comedic documentary
Purple State of Mind (2008) won Best Spiritual Film at the Breckenridge Festival of Film and the Audience Award at the Tallahassee Film Festival. He also leads a coalition of schools to the Sundance Film Festival for the annual
WindRider Forum.
Detweiler’s cultural commentary has been featured on ABC’s Nightline, CNN, Fox News, Al Jazeera, NPR and in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.