caption years_active home_town birth_place awards nationality ethnicity birth_date image article_title education name occupation style
araki 2014 at the deauville american film festival in september 1987 -- present santa barbara , california , united states los angeles , california , united states cannes film festival queer palm -lrb- 2010 -rrb- american japanese american 17 december 1959 file : gregg_araki_deauville_2014 . jpg gregg araki
 university -rrb- university of southern california -lrb- m.f.a. 1985 -rrb- of california , santa barbara -lrb- b.a. 1982 gregg araki filmmaker and film director new queer cinema
gregg araki

gregg araki -lrb- born december 17 , 1959 -rrb- is an american independent filmmaker and film director involved heavily with new queer cinema .
his film `` kaboom '' was the first ever winner of the cannes film festival queer palm awarded in 2010 .
