Jonathan M. Parisen

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Jonathan M. Parisen (born December 26, 1971) New York City filmmaker who wrote, produced and directed the first 9/11 dramatization entitled "Stairwell: Trapped In The World Trade Center".

Parisen directed four feature films 800 (1998) The only film dealing with the 1996 TWA flight 800 disaster over Long Island, New York. The Atomic Space Bug (1999) a horror film that paid tribute to the horror films of the 1950s and starred b-movie legend Conrad Brooks (Ed Wood's "Plan 9 From Outer Space"). Stairwell: Trapped In The World Trade Center (2002) the first 9/11 dramatization, and in 2005 Parisen completed A Conversation with Norman, which was Parisen's long awaited tribute to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). A Conversation with Norman premiered in New York City on July 13th 2005, just three days short of the original New York premiere of "Psycho" 45 years earlier.

In 1997 Parisen co-wrote Class Of Nuke 'Em High Part 4, the still unproduced sequel to the popular Troma Studios series Class Of Nuke 'Em High. Parisen serves on the board of The Rec-Youth Multimedia film festival (film festival showcasing youth produced movies) which occurs once a year at Tribecca Cinemas in New York City.

Parisen also works as an instructor of Journalism and Television performance at The Connecticut Schools Of Broadcasting.

In 2003 and 2004, Parisen worked as a television reporter for Time Warner Cable in New York City. He covered such stories as the Port Mobil Explosion in February 2003, the 2003 North America blackout, and the 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash. In June of 2006 Parisen was one of over two hundred film directors who worked on the documentary A Broad Way which is due out in late 2007. Parisen is currently at work on two films: one is about the Staten Island Ferry Crash entitled Crash Of The Barberi (Starring Tom Loggins, Grace Orosz and Wayne Miller), and the other film is The Colossal Toxic Turtle Attacks which is another homage to the b-horror films of the 1950s. Starring actor Conrad Brooks. For Crash Of The Barberi, Parisen will be using news footage in the film that he shot while covering the story. Parisen is also in the process of re-editing some of his older films, including "The Atomic Space Bug" and "800".