Caytha Jentis is an American writer, producer, director and filmmaker.
Jentis' feature films include Bad Parents, And Then Came Love and the
coming out film The One, her directorial debut. She is the creator and
director of The Other F Word, a comedy web series streaming on Amazon
Prime, starring Steve Guttenberg and Judy Gold. Her production and
management company, Fox Meadow Films, produced all three of her
feature films and the web series The Other F Word. She also wrote and
produced the short film Dream House in 2010. Jentis was selected as
one of Good Housekeeping's 50 over 50 in 2016.Jentis graduated from
Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
in 1984 with a degree in film and television. After graduating from
Syracuse, Jentis moved to Los Angeles where she worked as a literary
agent and in development; her first screenplay was for an ABC movie
that never aired. While in California, Jentis had the first of two
children while attending UCLA, where she completed her master's degree
in 1996. She then moved back to the east coast, moving to Ridgewood,
New Jersey where she lived for 20 years.Jentis wrote and produced her
first indie feature And Then Came Love in 2007, which stars Vanessa
Williams, Ben Vereen and Eartha Kitt (in her final film appearance).
The movie was filmed at her alma mater, Syracuse University, where the
chancellor's suite in Lubin House was converted into the apartment
where Williams’ character lived. Jentis gave university students the
opportunity to be interns, assisting with pre-production and
post-production activities.Her directorial debut was in 2011 with the
coming-out film The One, starring Jon Prescott, Margaret Anne Florence
and Ian Novick, Jentis also produced and wrote the script for the
movie. The film is a romantic dramedy about a man who plans to marry a
woman, when a month before his wedding, he falls in love with a man
from his past. Jentis said she wrote the screenplay "after spending
several nights with friends discussing true love†, and it was the
fastest script she had ever written.
Jentis' feature films include Bad Parents, And Then Came Love and the
coming out film The One, her directorial debut. She is the creator and
director of The Other F Word, a comedy web series streaming on Amazon
Prime, starring Steve Guttenberg and Judy Gold. Her production and
management company, Fox Meadow Films, produced all three of her
feature films and the web series The Other F Word. She also wrote and
produced the short film Dream House in 2010. Jentis was selected as
one of Good Housekeeping's 50 over 50 in 2016.Jentis graduated from
Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
in 1984 with a degree in film and television. After graduating from
Syracuse, Jentis moved to Los Angeles where she worked as a literary
agent and in development; her first screenplay was for an ABC movie
that never aired. While in California, Jentis had the first of two
children while attending UCLA, where she completed her master's degree
in 1996. She then moved back to the east coast, moving to Ridgewood,
New Jersey where she lived for 20 years.Jentis wrote and produced her
first indie feature And Then Came Love in 2007, which stars Vanessa
Williams, Ben Vereen and Eartha Kitt (in her final film appearance).
The movie was filmed at her alma mater, Syracuse University, where the
chancellor's suite in Lubin House was converted into the apartment
where Williams’ character lived. Jentis gave university students the
opportunity to be interns, assisting with pre-production and
post-production activities.Her directorial debut was in 2011 with the
coming-out film The One, starring Jon Prescott, Margaret Anne Florence
and Ian Novick, Jentis also produced and wrote the script for the
movie. The film is a romantic dramedy about a man who plans to marry a
woman, when a month before his wedding, he falls in love with a man
from his past. Jentis said she wrote the screenplay "after spending
several nights with friends discussing true love†, and it was the
fastest script she had ever written.
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