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Jeffrey Schwarz

Directing · Born 1969-09-15 · New York City, New York, USA

Jeffrey Schwarz is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker based in Los Angeles. His latest documentary is "Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders," which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2026. Other films include "Commitment to Life," "Boulevard! A Hollywood Story," "The Fabulous Allan Carr," "Tab Hunter Confidential," "I Am Divine," "Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon," "Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story," and HBO Documentary Films’ "Vito." He is executive producer of "Hollywood Black" (2024), the Emmy-nominated MGM+ series directed by Justin Simien, which won the 2025 Independent Spirit Award for Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series. Schwarz is also the recipient of the 2015 Frameline Award for outstanding contribution to LGBTQ representation in film, television, and the media arts.

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Hollywood Black

2024 · Executive Producer

Boulevard! A Hollywood Story

2018 · Consulting Producer

The Fabulous Allan Carr

2017 · Producer

The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin

2017 · Consulting Producer

Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story

2015 · Executive Producer

She's The Best Thing in It

Tab Hunter Confidential

2015 · Producer

2014 · Director

That Guy Dick Miller

2014 · Executive Producer

And the Oscar Goes To...

2014 · Co-Producer

Back from the Afterlife: Making 'Resident Evil: Retribution'

2012 · Producer

2011 · Director

Undead Evolution: Making 'Resident Evil: Afterlife'

2010 · Producer

Body Count: The Deaths of "Final Destination"

2010 · Producer

Starz Inside: Sex and the Cinema

2009 · Producer

It Came from Kuchar

Gangsta Vision: Making ‘Menace 2 Society’

2009 · Director

On These Shoulders We Stand

2009 · Consulting Producer

House of Harrington

2009 · Director

‘Friday’ Straight Up

2009 · Director

2008 · Castro Man (uncredited)

Hope and Miracles: The Making of 'Living Proof'

2008 · Producer

Starz Inside: In the Gutter

2008 · Producer

Rob Reiner Interviews the Stars: Jack Nicholson

2008 · Producer

Rob Reiner Interviews the Stars: Morgan Freeman

2008 · Producer

Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon

2008 · Director

Beyond Raccoon City: Unearthing 'Resident Evil: Extinction'

2008 · Producer

The Evolution of Resident Evil: Bridge to Extinction

2007 · Producer

Resident Evil: Diary of an Apocalypse

2007 · Producer

You Can’t Stop the Beat: The Long Journey of "Hairspray"

2007 · Producer

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

2007 · Director

DP/30: Conversations About Movies

Snakes on a Plane: Meet the Reptiles

2007 · Producer

Snakes on a Video: Cobra Starship

2007 · Producer

The Snake Pit: On the Set of 'Snakes on a Plane'

2007 · Producer

Never Sleep Again: The Making of ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’

2006 · Producer

Pas de Deux: Making 'White Nights'

2006 · Producer

Path of Darkness: Making 'Silent Hill'

2006 · Producer

JoJo: The Pop Princess

2006 · Director

RV Nation: The Culture of Road Warriors

2006 · Director

2006 · Producer

No Day But Today: The Story of 'Rent'

2006 · Producer

Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds

2006 · Producer

Semper Fi: Life After the Corps

2006 · Producer

Pure Venom: The Making of Snakes on a Plane

2006 · Producer

The House That Freddy Built

2006 · Producer

Night Terrors: The Origins of Wes Craven's Nightmares

2006 · Producer

Casting a Spell: Making 'Bewitched'

2005 · Producer

Reservoir Dogs Revisited

2005 · Director

What Makes Fido Run?

2005 · Producer

2005 · Producer

Introducing Cameron Diaz

2005 · Producer

Return to Edge City

2005 · Producer

Game Over: Resident Evil Reanimated

2004 · Producer

2004 · Producer

Symphony of Evil

2004 · Producer

Corporate Malfeasance

2004 · Producer

Blood on the Land: The Making of a King

2004 · Producer

The Workaday Gangster

2004 · Producer

Guns, Genes & Fighting Machines: The Making of 'Universal Soldier'

2004 · Producer

Universal Soldier: A Tale of Two Titans

2004 · Producer

Ed Gein: The Ghoul of Plainfield

2004 · Producer

War Journal: On the Set of The Punisher

2004 · Producer

East Meets West: "Red Heat" and the Kings of Carolco

2004 · Producer

Second Chances: The Making of "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore"

2004 · Producer

Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'

2004 · Producer

Made Men: The 'GoodFellas' Legacy

2004 · Producer

Clive Barker: Raising Hell

2004 · Producer

Sweets to the Sweet: The 'Candyman' Mythos

2004 · Producer

From the Classroom to the Streets: The Making of 'Who's That Knocking at My Door'

2004 · Producer

Filming for Your Life: Making After Hours

2004 · Producer

People Like Us: Making 'Philadelphia'

2004 · Producer

2004 · Associate Producer

Fresh Meat: The Wounds of 'Wrong Turn'

2004 · Producer

Stan Winston: Monster Mogul

2004 · Producer

Eliza Dushku: Babe in the Woods

2004 · Producer

Chainsaw Redux: Making a Massacre

2004 · Producer

2004 · Producer

Code of Silence: Inside the Rampart Scandal

2004 · Producer

Dialing Up "Cellular"

2004 · Producer

2004 · Producer

A Stuntman for All Seasons: A Tribute to Bennie Dobbins

2004 · Producer

The Terror Gauge!

2003 · Producer

Cheating Death: Beyond and Back

2003 · Producer

Return to Crystal Lake: Making 'Friday the 13th'

2003 · Producer

Whether You Like It or Not: The Story of Hedwig

2003 · Producer

2003 · Producer

Bits and Pieces: Bringing Death to Life

2003 · Producer

Unleashing the Beast: Making ‘The Howling’

2003 · Producer

The Saw Is Family: Making 'Leatherface'

2003 · Producer

A Shot at the Top: The Making of 'The King of Comedy'

2002 · Producer

Cosmic Symphonies: Elfman in Space

2002 · Producer

Squish, Splat, Sploosh: The Stellar Sounds of 'Men in Black II'

2002 · Producer

Men in Black II‎: Creature Featurettes

2002 · Producer

Scoring "Resident Evil"

2002 · Producer

Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog'

2002 · Director

Jet Li Is 'The One'

2002 · Producer

Playing Dead: "Resident Evil" from Game to Screen

2002 · Producer

The Many Lives of Jason Voorhees

2002 · Producer

By Any Means Necessary: The Making of "Jason X"

2002 · Producer

The Politics of Fur

Drawing First Blood: 20 Years Later

2002 · Producer

Death from Above: The Making of 'Starship Troopers'

2002 · Producer

We Get to Win This Time

2002 · Producer

Afganistan: Land in Crisis

2002 · Producer

2002 · Producer

Revisiting 'The Last Waltz'

2002 · Producer

Mackin’ Ain’t Easy

2002 · Producer

Battle-Axe: the Making of 'Strait-Jacket'

2002 · Producer

Mysteries of Love

2002 · Producer

Red Desert Nights: Making Ghosts of Mars

2001 · Producer

Flesh + Steel: The Making of 'RoboCop'

2001 · Producer

Blonde Poison: The Making of 'Basic Instinct'

2001 · Producer

The Confidence Man

As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride'

2001 · Producer

Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'

Rescued from the Closet

2001 · Producer

Let the Games Begin

2001 · Producer

Adam Sandler Goes to Hell

2001 · Director

From Morf to Morphing: The Dawn of Digital Filmmaking

2001 · Producer

How Harry Met Sally…

Imagining 'Total Recall'

2001 · Producer

Satan’s Top 40

Satan’s Top 40

2001 · Director

If It Bleeds We Can Kill It: The Making of 'Predator'

2000 · Producer

Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'

2000 · Producer

2000 · Producer

The Perfect Souffle: Testing "Final Destination"

2000 · Producer

KPFA On the Air

2000 · Additional Photography

Catching Up with Marty DiBergi

2000 · Producer

The Lady from Shanghai: A Discussion with Peter Bogdanovich

Julie Strain: Supergoddess!

2000 · Producer

Return to the Arena: The Making of 'Rollerball'

2000 · Producer

Invisible Mom II

The Kid with X-Ray Eyes

1999 · Producer

Imagining 'Heavy Metal'

The Dead Walk: Remaking a Classic

1999 · Producer

Scream For Your Lives: William Castle and 'The Tingler'

1999 · Producer

Bikini Traffic School

Leather Jacket Love Story

If I Die Before I Wake

Maximum Security

1996 · Assistant Editor

1996 · Assistant Editor

The Celluloid Closet

1996 · Assistant Editor

Al Lewis in the Flesh

1993 · Director

1991 · Production Assistant

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