Feature Photo: Former Royal Oaker and Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts Hosts Special Screening

Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts held a special advance screening of his film The Kings of Summer to benefit the Detroit Creativity Project at the Emagine Theatre Thursday night.

The King's of Summer, depicts three unhappy teenage boys who flee to the wilderness where they build a makeshift house and live off the land as masters of their own destiny, something of which Vogt-Roberts can relate.

Vogt-Roberts lived in a Royal Oak neighborhood near Normandy and Woodward until he was 14. He attended Jane Addams and would have gone to Kimball High School but for his parents upping and moving to Arizona.

The move didn't sit well with the then teenager, who didn't want to leave his friends. He moved back to Michigan when he turned 18, enrolled himself into Dondero, (which became Royal Oak Middle School in 2006) and lived with his grandmother, Jeanne Vogt, in Oak Park.

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Vogt attended the special sneak preview, which her grandson referred to as "Granda's special screening."

"Who would have thought success would have come this soon," Vogt said. "It's just wonderful. It's just so exciting to see what he'll be doing next."

See The Kings of Summer in Royal Oak

The Kings of Summer, which received rave reviews at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, opens at the Main Art Theatre on June 7. The film is rated R.

The Detroit Creativity Project was founded in 2011 by a group of L.A.-based actors, writers, directors and musicians with Detroit roots. Working with YArts, the organization offers a 10-week improvisation and arts education program, free-of-charge, to Detroit middle and high school students.