Jeffrey Schwarz
Born: 1969-09-15 in New York City, New York, USA
Known For: Directing
Biography
Jeffrey Schwarz is an Emmy Award-winning producer, director and editor based in Los Angeles. His latest feature documentary is “Commitment to Life,” which chronicles the city of Los Angeles’ response to the HIV/AIDS crisis. It premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and is currently streaming on NBCUniversal’s Peacock. Previous work includes “Boulevard! A Hollywood Story,” “The Fabulous Allan Carr,” “Tab Hunter Confidential,” “I Am Divine,” “Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon,” “Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story,” and the Emmy Award-winning HBO Documentary Films’ “Vito.”
Filmography
2023
- Commitment to Life ... (Director)
2021
- Abbott Elementary ... (Unit Production Manager)
- Boulevard! A Hollywood Story as Self
2019
- Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’ ... (Editor)
- Valerie as Self
2018
- Crime and Beauty: Making ‘Female Trouble’ ... (Producer)
2017
- The Fabulous Allan Carr ... (Producer)
2015
- Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story ... (Executive Producer)
- She's The Best Thing in It ... (Editor)
- Tab Hunter Confidential ... (Producer)
2014
- I Am Divine ... (Director)
- And the Oscar Goes To... ... (Co-Producer)
- That Guy Dick Miller ... (Executive Producer)
2013
- From Morf to Morphing: The Dawn of Digital Filmmaking ... (Producer)
2012
- Stories from the Plague ... (Director)
- Back from the Afterlife: Making 'Resident Evil: Retribution' ... (Director)
2011
- Vito ... (Director)
- Raging Bull: Reflections on a Classic ... (Director)
- Marty and Bobby ... (Director)
- Marty on Film ... (Director)
2010
- Program Alice: Activated ... (Director)
- Undead Evolution: Making 'Resident Evil: Afterlife' ... (Producer)
2009
- It Came from Kuchar as Self
- ‘Friday’ Straight Up ... (Director)
- Setting it Straight: Making ‘Set it Off’ ... (Director)
- Gangsta Vision: Making ‘Menace 2 Society’ ... (Director)
- Starz Inside: Sex and the Cinema ... (Director)
- House of Harrington ... (Director)
2008
- Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon ... (Director)
- Starz Inside: In the Gutter ... (Director)
- Beyond Raccoon City: Unearthing 'Resident Evil: Extinction' ... (Producer)
- Resident Road Map: Reflections on the Future of the Series ... (Producer)
2007
- Down to the Bone: Anatomy of a Prequel ... (Director)
- Resident Evil: Diary of an Apocalypse ... (Executive Producer)
- DP/30: Conversations About Movies as Self
- Rise Up and Shout! ... (Producer)
- Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story ... (Director)
- The Evolution of Resident Evil: Bridge to Extinction ... (Executive Producer)
2006
- Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds ... (Producer)
- Path of Darkness: Making 'Silent Hill' ... (Producer)
- Shooting the Police: Cops on Film ... (Producer)
- Never Sleep Again: The Making of ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ ... (Producer)
- No Day But Today: The Story of 'Rent' ... (Director)
- The House That Freddy Built ... (Director)
- Hitchcocked! ... (Director)
- Pas de Deux: Making 'White Nights' ... (Producer)
2005
- Return to Edge City ... (Producer)
- ‘Reservoir Dogs’ Revisited ... (Director)
2004
- Eating Out ... (Associate Producer)
- Corporate Malfeasance ... (Director)
- Sweets to the Sweet: The 'Candyman' Mythos ... (Director)
- Symphony of Evil ... (Director)
- People Like Us: Making 'Philadelphia' ... (Director)
- Fresh Meat: The Wounds of 'Wrong Turn' ... (Producer)
- Stan Winston: Monster Mogul ... (Director)
- Universal Soldier: A Tale of Two Titans ... (Producer)
- The Workaday Gangster ... (Producer)
- Eliza Dushku: Babe in the Woods ... (Director)
- Game Babes ... (Director)
- Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas' ... (Producer)
- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Second Chances ... (Executive Producer)
- Made Men: The 'GoodFellas' Legacy ... (Producer)
- Guns, Genes & Fighting Machines: The Making of 'Universal Soldier' ... (Producer)
- Meet Bob Shaye ... (Producer)
- Chainsaw Redux: Making a Massacre ... (Director)
- Game Over: Resident Evil Reanimated ... (Director)
- Ed Gein: The Ghoul of Plainfield ... (Producer)
- Clive Barker: Raising Hell ... (Producer)
2003
- Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig ... (Producer)
- The Terror Gauge! ... (Producer)
- Cheating Death: Beyond and Back ... (Producer)
- Return to Crystal Lake: Making 'Friday the 13th' ... (Producer)
- Bits and Pieces: Bringing Death to Life ... (Producer)
- Minnesota Nice ... (Director)
- Unleashing the Beast: Making ‘The Howling’ ... (Producer)
- The Saw Is Family: Making 'Leatherface' ... (Director)
2002
- Catch Me If You Can ... (Second Second Assistant Director)
- The Many Lives of Jason Voorhees ... (Director)
- The Politics of Fur ... (Editor)
- A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy' ... (Executive Producer)
- Mysteries of Love ... (Producer)
- Cosmic Symphonies: Elfman in Space ... (Producer)
- Squish, Splat, Sploosh: The Stellar Sounds of 'Men in Black II' ... (Producer)
- Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog' ... (Director)
- Death from Above: The Making of 'Starship Troopers' ... (Director)
- Rick Baker: Alien Maker ... (Producer)
- Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket' ... (Director)
- Playing Dead: Resident Evil from Game to Screen ... (Director)
- Revisiting 'The Last Waltz' ... (Producer)
- Scoring Resident Evil ... (Director)
- Drawing First Blood: 20 Years Later ... (Producer)
2001
- As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride' ... (Producer)
- Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' ... (Editor)
- Flesh + Steel: The Making of 'RoboCop' ... (Director)
- Rescued from the Closet ... (Producer)
- Let the Games Begin ... (Producer)
- Satan’s Top Forty ... (Director)
- The Making of "Dungeons and Dragons" ... (Producer)
- Imagining 'Total Recall' ... (Producer)
- How Harry Met Sally… ... (Editor)
- Satan’s Top 40 ... (Producer)
- The Confidence Man ... (Editor)
- Adam Sandler Goes to Hell ... (Director)
- Blonde Poison: The Making of 'Basic Instinct' ... (Director)
2000
- Premonitions ... (Director)
- The Perfect Souffle: Testing "Final Destination" ... (Director)
- If It Bleeds We Can Kill It: The Making of 'Predator' ... (Executive Producer)
- Revisiting 'Fail-Safe' ... (Producer)
- Julie Strain: Supergoddess ... (Director)
- The Lady from Shanghai: A Discussion with Peter Bogdanovich ... (Editor)
- Psycho Path ... (Producer)
- Catching Up with Marty DiBergi ... (Director)
- Return to the Arena: The Making of 'Rollerball' ... (Director)
- Lions and Monkeys and Pods... Oh My!: The Special Effects of 'Jumanji' ... (Director)
1999
- The Kid with X-Ray Eyes ... (Editor)
- Invisible Mom II ... (Editor)
- The Dead Walk: Remaking a Classic ... (Director)
- Imagining 'Heavy Metal' ... (Editor)
- Scream For Your Lives: William Castle and 'The Tingler' ... (Producer)
1998
- Scorpio One ... (Editor)
- Leather Jacket Love Story ... (Editor)
- Bikini Traffic School ... (Editor)
- If I Die Before I Wake ... (Editor)
- A Bold Affair ... (Editor)
1997
- Maximum Security ... (Editor)
- The Escort ... (Editor)
1996
- Phantom Pain ... (Editor)
1993
- Al Lewis in the Flesh ... (Director)