Douglas Vermeeren: Breathing New Life Into the Western Genre

Some actors discover their passion for film in drama school; for Douglas Vermeeren, it started much earlier—on movie sets he wasn’t even supposed to be on. As a curious boy growing up in Canada, he would skip school just to sneak behind the scenes, fascinated by the way entire worlds could be built out of lights, cameras, costumes, and stories. What began as curiosity quickly grew into a lifelong calling.