Lewis Andrew Schoenbrun (born September 21, 1958) is an American

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and

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Early life and career

Schoenbrun became a fan of director

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at age nine, when he watched the film '' 2001: A Space Odyssey''. At eleven years old, Schoenbrun shot short films with his father's

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, 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

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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 ''

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'' and ''

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''. After directing several

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films in the 2000s, Schoenbrun and a producer wanted to make an adaptation of the

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hero

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, starring a female protagonist. In the summer of 2010, having instead chosen to create a

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of the character

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, Schoenbrun financed and directed the film ''

The Amazing Bulk ''The Amazing Bulk'' is a 2012 American independent live-action/animated direct-to-video superhero film directed and co-produced by Lewis Schoenbrun, starring Jordan Lawson, Shevaun Kastl, Terence Lording, Juliette Angeli, Jed Rowen and Randal ...

'' 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

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, Philippines.

Selected filmography

As director

* '' Dr. Chopper'' (2005) * ''Slaughterhouse Phi: Death Sisters'' (2006) * ''Queen Cobra'' (2007) * ''

'' (2010) * '' Aliens vs. Avatars'' (2011)

As editor

* ''

'' (1988, as assistant editor) * ''

'' (1989, as first assistant editor) * ''The Mark of Dracula'' (1997) * '' Children of the Living Dead'' (2001) * ''Ghost Dog: A Detective Tail'' (2003) * ''Tower of Blood'' (2005) * ''The Amazing Bulk'' (2010) * ''Aliens vs. Avatars'' (2011)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schoenbrun, Lewis 1958 births Living people Filmmakers from New Jersey People from Plainfield, New Jersey American film editors