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From Social Action Campaigns to 'Antebellum': Meet Hollywood's Power Directing Duo

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The directing team Bush + Renz — that would be Gerard Bush, 47, and Christopher Renz, 39, partners in life and work — were well into preproduction on their first feature, the psychological thriller Antebellum, when they learned they’d have to face a DGA tribunal. "We did not realize that 95 percent of the time they deny duos," explains Renz.

Reality quickly set in: They would have one shot to convince the guild they were duo-worthy. If they blew it, there went their Hollywood dreams.

The former advertising creative execs had met a dozen years earlier at a party in Miami, where they both lived. Bush recalls spottingRenz — "Back then, he was 120 pounds wet" he says — getting into a scuffle with a burly security guard who wouldn’t let him.

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