Early Career
Flemming was born and raised in California's San Fernando Valley, and studied English at the University of California, Irvine, graduating in 1998. Flemming immediately went to work as a script reader for New Line Cinema while also making his first feature film, the very low-budget Hang Your Dog in the Wind. Partly to promote his film, Flemming then co-founded a "punk" film festival in Park City, Utah, called “the Slumdance Film Festival”, a pun on the name of the Slamdance Film Festival (which in turn referred to the Sundance Film Festival).
Slumdance brought Flemming to the attention of the independent-film "guru" John Pierson, who had previously discovered Spike Lee, Michael Moore, Kevin Smith and Richard Linklater, among others. Pierson became a vocal advocate of Flemming and his debut feature, and he later hired Flemming to work as a director and segment producer for Pierson's Independent Film Channel magazine-style show called Split Screen.
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