[1][2][3] August-Perna was born in Madison, Wisconsin and graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
[4] In 2011, he co-directed The Swell Season, along with Chris Dapkins and Carlo Mirabella-Davis, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.
[5] August-Perna is the recipient of the 2016 Soros Justice Fellowship from the Open Society Foundations.
[6] In 2017, he edited and produced the documentary short film Knife Skills, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 90th Academy Awards.
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