Lewis Andrew Schoenbrun (born September 21, 1958) is an American
filmmaker and editor.Schoenbrun became a fan of director Stanley
Kubrick at age nine, when he watched the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
At eleven years old, Schoenbrun shot short films with his father's
super 8 film camera, and received his own camera from his parents at
the age of thirteen. In the 1970s, during his time at a university, he
worked at a PBS station in Atlanta, Georgia, and later spent a year
working with Tela Moving Images, a production company in Springfield,
Massachusetts. During his time with the production company, he used a
Moviola to edit a documentary film about a trip to Kenya, Africa that
he went on with a group of aspiring astronomers.In the late 1980s,
Schoenbrun acted as an assistant editor on the films Mystic Pizza and
UHF. After directing several direct-to-video films in the 2000s,
Schoenbrun and a producer wanted to make a horror adaptation of the
comic book hero Spider-Man, starring a female protagonist. In the
summer of 2010, having instead chosen to create a parody film of the
character the Hulk, Schoenbrun financed and directed the film The
Amazing Bulk in Los Angeles, California. He remained in Los Angeles to
work on the film's post-production and to shoot the film Aliens vs.
Avatars.He currently teaches at the International Academy of Film and
Television in Cebu, Philippines.
filmmaker and editor.Schoenbrun became a fan of director Stanley
Kubrick at age nine, when he watched the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
At eleven years old, Schoenbrun shot short films with his father's
super 8 film camera, and received his own camera from his parents at
the age of thirteen. In the 1970s, during his time at a university, he
worked at a PBS station in Atlanta, Georgia, and later spent a year
working with Tela Moving Images, a production company in Springfield,
Massachusetts. During his time with the production company, he used a
Moviola to edit a documentary film about a trip to Kenya, Africa that
he went on with a group of aspiring astronomers.In the late 1980s,
Schoenbrun acted as an assistant editor on the films Mystic Pizza and
UHF. After directing several direct-to-video films in the 2000s,
Schoenbrun and a producer wanted to make a horror adaptation of the
comic book hero Spider-Man, starring a female protagonist. In the
summer of 2010, having instead chosen to create a parody film of the
character the Hulk, Schoenbrun financed and directed the film The
Amazing Bulk in Los Angeles, California. He remained in Los Angeles to
work on the film's post-production and to shoot the film Aliens vs.
Avatars.He currently teaches at the International Academy of Film and
Television in Cebu, Philippines.
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