American
Actor
2016-present
Two Magic Drops
Eriksen Dickens (born 7 April 1995) is an actor and filmmaker from Oakdale, California. He directed the film Two Magic Drops in 2020 which selected 8 international film festivals and won three of them.[1]
Early Life
Dickens was born and brought up in the cowboy capital city, Oakdale, California, United States. His father who was a teacher and baseball coach, died when he was 14 from cancer. His mother also fought cancer twice and a survivor. He has a younger brother, Soren Dickens who is a writer and director. He has done a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Cal Poly State University in 2017 and a Masters of Arts in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University in 2021.
Career
Dickens started Platinum Peek Productions with his brother Soren Dickens, out of their dorm room at Cal Poly in 2016.[2] Platinum Peek is a digital storytelling agency specializing in revenue-generating advertisements and branding content. He wrote a book named The Orchard's Offspring in 2018, which was well-received. In the year 2020, Eriksen Dickens achieved fame with the film, Two Magic Drops – a short documentary written and directed with Soren Dickens - based on the involvement of Rotary International in India in providing polio vaccinations to the children of the country. It has been selected to 8 international film festivals while won awards at 3 of them.[3]
References
- ↑ Platinum Peek’s Eriksen and Soren Dickens carve out space in the Digital Marketing Industry(18 November 2020). Retrieved 2021-05-27.
- ↑ Dickens Brothers Spotlight The Mustang Way Of Life(26 October 2016). Retrieved 2021-05-27.
- ↑ From Dorm Rooms to Film Festivals, Cal Poly Alumni, Eriksen and Soren Dickens, Travel All Over Doing What They Love(18 November 2020). Retrieved 2021-05-27.