Jeffrey Schwarz
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Jeffrey Schwarz is an American film producer, director, and editor, and the President and CEO of Automat Pictures, an entertainment production company based in Los Angeles. A New York City native, Schwarz attended SUNY Purchase, earning a BFA in film. His senior thesis project was the documentary Al Lewis In The Flesh, which profiled Al Lewis, the octogenarian star of TV's The Munsters.
In 1998, Schwarz produced Psycho Path, a documentary about Gus Van Sant's remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Since then, Schwarz has produced more than 200 added-value DVD documentaries. He has collaborated with such filmmakers as Martin Scorsese, Paul Verhoeven, Joe Dante, the Coen Brothers, Ivan Reitman, Rob Reiner, Sean Cunningham, Wes Craven, Barry Sonnenfeld, Jonathan Demme, Sylvester Stallone, Jon Favreau, Adam Shankman, Roland Emmerich, Gale Anne Hurd, David Ellis, Sam Mendes, and others.
Schwarz is producing and/or directing original telelvision programming and several independent documentary features, among them Spine Tingler: The William Castle Story, about Hollywood B-movie mogul William Castle, and Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon, a biography of the 1970s adult film star Jack Wrangler. Schwarz served as producer on the feature film Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds. He has several narrative features in development, such as Hold Me While I'm Naked, a biopic about legendary filmmaker George Kuchar.
