Jane Schoenbrun

Jane Flannery Schoenbrun is an American film producer, screenwriter and film director who began working in the film industry in the late 2010s. Prior to their directorial debut in 2018, Schoenbrun produced feature-length fiction films, documentaries, and short films.

Career

Schoenbrun made theirSchoenbrun uses they/she pronouns. For consistency, this article uses singular they. directorial debut in 2018 with the documentary ''A Self-Induced Hallucination.'' The film centers the narrative of the fictional horror character and internet phenomenon Slender Man as told through a found footage compilation of existing YouTube videos. Though it used to be available to view on Vimeo, the film has since been removed. Schoenbrun has stated that they do not wish to profit from ''A Self-Induced Hallucination'': "I have no desire to profit from it, or to commodify it in a traditional sense."

Their film ''We're All Going to the World's Fair'' (2021) was premiered during the online 2021 Sundance Film Festival. The film follows the story of a teenage girl named Casey (Anna Cobb) that joins an "occult online game". The film is inspired and informed by internet aesthetics and trans perspectives: "Steeped in the aesthetics and lore of internet 'creepypasta' horror, World's Fair accurately evokes the eeriness of the deep web, while paying homage to low-budget horror films, most notably Paranormal Activity (2007)... Schoenbrun, themself non-binary, told bitchmedia.org, 'I really did come out to myself in the years I was working on this movie… I'm really proud of the fact that the film is speaking from a trans voice in the middle of that process.'" Schoenbrun's sophomore feature-length film has a major focus on the ways in which humans interact with the internet: "Through Cobb, we take an alarming and up-to-date look into the life of any average contemporary teenager that grows up and establishes a voice mostly online, struggling to close the gap between the real and virtual." The majority of ''We're All Going to the World's Fair'' consists of original footage, with the exception of some online videos posted by content creators previously unrelated to the film.

Upcoming projects

Announced in 2021, '' I Saw the TV Glow'' is an upcoming horror film directed by Jane Schoenbrun starring Justice Smith and Brigette Lundy-Paine. "The film follows two teenage outcasts who bond over their shared love of a scary television show, but the boundary between TV and reality begins to blur after it is mysteriously canceled." Production for '' I Saw the TV Glow'' has reportedly been completed.

It has also been announced that Schoenbrun will lead a film adaptation of ''Nevada:'' "Schoenbrun is set to write and direct an adaptation of Imogen Binnie’s cult classic ''Nevada'' with production scheduled to begin in the eponymous state between March 15 and May 15 of this year. Released in 2013, ''Nevada'' is considered a landmark of the trans literary canon..."

Filmography

Films

Television shows

* ''The Eyeslicer'', 2017 (ongoing) - co-creator

Music videos

* ''Lucy Dacus: Night Shift'', 2023 - director

Accolades

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References

External links

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American LGBT film directors
Non-binary directors
American non-binary writers
LGBT film producers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American film directors
21st-century American writers
American film producers