Director Biography - Rex Dean
One of nine kids raised on a farm in Colorado, Rex Dean moved to New
England to attend Harvard College where he studied Government alongside future Secretary of State Antony Blinken (who wrote an article about Rex's cover band, The Standard Deviants). After working as a computer programmer for many years, Dean decided to follow his dream and wrote, produced and directed his first feature film. SPACE BABY may be the first and only family sci-fi comedy ever filmed by a family in their own home. Shot on 35mm in Waltham, Mass. the film stars his three children, in character as Mental Man, Nature Girl, and Space Baby. With the untimely death in 1998 from AIDS of the film’s investor — gay activist and Wall Street wizard Michael Palm — the film has been self-funded ever since, which led to delay of nearly 25 years. Today Dean resides in Los Angeles close to all three children, writing songs and working on more films.