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Writer-director-producer David Schmoeller recently completed producing the comedy THOR AT THE BUS STOP, the feature film debut of writer-director Jerry Thompson and Mike Thompson. The movie tells the story of the mythical Thor who is making a journey through a contemporary suburban neighborhood to fight the giant Midgard Serpent. Thor starts a chain reaction of story lines involving a group of characters, each of whom is making their own life-changing journeys. Thor will die this day – and in the process, change the lives of everyone - and save the world – but no one will care. In February, 2008, Schmoeller’s short film WEDDING DAY, screened at the L’Agence du Court Metrage in Paris, France and then at the Objectifs Film Distributors Program at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival. It subsequently screened at other film festivals including the Syracuse International Film Festival, the Dam Shorts Film Festival and Cinevegas. WEDDING DAY tells the story of three brides and three loves stories: one in Las Vegas, one in Paris and one in Singapore. The short is in French, Chinese and English - with English subtitles. In June of 2007, Schmoeller’s short film SPANKING LESSONS won the Jury Award as Best Nevada Filmmaker at the 2007 Cinevegas Film Festival as well as playing on broadcast television internationally. In March, 2007, Schmoeller was a Visiting International Artist at Objectifs Centre for Photography & Filmmaking in Singapore where he shot the Singapore segment of WEDDING DAY. Schmoeller was honored on January 26, 2007 in Paris by the Cinémathèque Française with a tribute to David Schmoeller screening, showing two of his early features (the cult classic films “Tourist Trap” and “Crawlspace” as well as his celebrated short documentary on directing enfant terrible Klaus Kinski: “Please Kill Mr.. Kinski”). Schmoeller was present for a Q&A. (see link below) Schmoeller has been an internationally recognized feature film and television writer-director (nine feature films, hours of network television and numerous award-winning shorts) for over three decades. Schmoeller has numerous feature film projects in development including: LITTLE MONSTER, a crime drama; NEON DESERT, a romantic-comedy and THE BLIND PHTOGRAPHER, a crime thriller. Schmoeller is currently an Associate Professor of film production at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and runs the Film Department’s UNLV Short Film Archive. Details can be found on IMDB.com. He can be reached at schmoeller@cox.net. ___________________________________________________________________ After a stint as an interpreter for ABC Sports during the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, Schmoeller returned to Texas and completed a Masters program in Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. His Thesis Film, THE SPIDER WILL KILL YOU, funded by a grant from the Directors Guild of America, received an Academy Award Student Film Nomination in 1974, losing in the finals to the Robert Zemeckis student short FIELD OF HONOR. Subsequently, under the auspices of the American Film Institute with funding from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, Schmoeller spent six months as an intern with writer-director Peter Hyams on the film CAPRICORN ONE. Schmoeller's first feature TOURIST TRAP (which he wrote and directed) is the favorite film of master storyteller of modern horror, Stephen King. Discussing Schmoeller's work in his book DANSE MACABRE, King says: the writer-director (Schmoeller) has the uncanny power to present terror in even more effective ways than many major studio releases. Schmoeller's writing and directing credits include work on the highly-praised television series JAMES AT 15 as well as the feature films TOURIST TRAP, New World's WARRIORS OF THE WIND, THE SEDUCTION for Embassy; CRAWLSPACE, GHOST TOWN and CATACOMBS for Empire Entertainment and the cult classic PUPPETMASTER for Paramount Studios. PUPPETMASTER subsequently became one of the most successful franchise horror films ever made, producing seven more sequels, the latest in 2003 (PUPPETMASTER, THE LEGACY). Schmoeller's film THE ARRIVAL, a science-fiction black comedy, was selected for the Midnight Madness screening at the Toronto Film Festival. Schmoeller then directed two children’s features: THE SECRET KINGDOM and MYSTERIOUS MUSEUM in Bucharest and Sinia, Romania and New Orleans. In addition to his feature work, Schmoeller has directed many hours of Network Television including three seasons of the CBS-USA Network television series SILK STALKINGS as well as RENEGADE and the pilot and multiple episodes of COP FILES, a series for the Fox Network.
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