NEVADA FILM FESTIVAL, PLATINUM REEL AWARD, 2009

For more than 35 years, Brett Dillon has made "DJ" his chosen profession. Starting at age 15 when being too young to drive a car, his mother had to chauffeur him to and from his air shift, to working for one of the last family owned radio stations in America, Dillon's career has been unconventional, but bordering on the mystic.

Like many DJs Dillon moved up and down the radio dial playing Johnny Cash in Michigan, giving the daily bear and moose reports in Wyoming, losing his job to the dreaded 'format change' in Texas, reading the ambulance report sponsored by the local funeral home in Nebraska or just spinning records, Dillon has done it all.

Hundreds of times over his 35-year-career, or during the all-request lunch hour, he picks up the phone. Echoing over his headphones Dillon hears those two magic words that begin a very special relationship with those devoted to him, and the Americana music he plays, "HEY DILLON." (72 minutes, 2009)