Feature Photo: Former Royal Oaker and Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts Hosts Special Screening

"The Kings of Summer" director and co-founder of The Detroit Creativity Project returns home to Royal Oak.

Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts held a special advance screening of his film The Kings of Summer to benefit the Detroit Creativity Project at the Emagine Theatre Thursday night. The King's of Summer, depicts three unhappy teenage boys who flee to the wilderness where they build a makeshift house and live off the land as masters of their own destiny, something of which Vogt-Roberts can relate. Vogt-Roberts lived in a Royal Oak neighborhood near Normandy and Woodward until he was 14. He attended Jane Addams and would have gone to Kimball High School but for his parents upping and moving to Arizona. The move didn't sit well with the then teenager, who didn't want to leave his friends. He moved back to Michigan when he turned 18, enrolled himself…

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'Toy's House' Film Director Talks About Growing Up in Royal Oak

Dondero graduate Jordan Vogt-Roberts talks to Patch about high school, favorite teachers, tattoos and seeing his dream come true, as his coming-of-age film is honored at the Sundance Fim Festival in Park City, UT.

This month, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, a 2003 graduate of Dondero High School in Royal Oak, is seeing his dreams come true. His film Toy's House was selected for the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, UT. It's the culmination of lots of tenacity and ambition for the young director. Toy's House depicts three unhappy teenage boys who flee to the wilderness where they build a makeshift house and live off the land as masters of their own destiny, something of which Jordan Vogt-Roberts can relate. Vogt-Roberts lived in a Royal Oak neighborhood near Normandy and Woodward until he was 14. He attended Jane Addams and would have gone to Kimball High School but for his parents upping and moving to Arizona. The move …

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