Pete Schuermann is a Colorado-based director, producer, editor and cinematographer.
Career
Pete Schuermann began making movies at 19 with the Star Trek parody ''Hick Trek: The Moovie'', which was released to home video in 1999.
In 2005,
Walt Disney Studios and
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
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’s 50th anniversary.
Working with
The Gordie Foundation
The Gordie Center for Substance Abuse Prevention is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that was founded in Dallas, Texas as the Gordie Foundation. The name of the non-profit changed in 2010 when the Gordie Foundation merged with the University o ...
, Schuermann directed ''Haze'', a documentary about Gordie Bailey, who died in 2004 following a hazing incident involving alcohol at the
University of Colorado
The University of Colorado (CU) is a system of public universities in Colorado. It consists of four institutions: University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, and the University of Co ...
. The film had its world premiere at the 2008 Hamptons International Film Festival and won the Best Documentary Award at the 2009 Indie Spirit Film Festival in Colorado Springs.
Schuermann's next feature-length film was ''The Creep Behind the Camera'', a comedy/drama/documentary hybrid about director Art Nelson and the making of ''
The Creeping Terror
''The Creeping Terror'' (a.k.a. ''The Crawling Monster'') is a 1964 horror–science fiction film directed and produced by, and starring, Vic Savage. The plot is centered upon an extraterrestrial, slug-like creature that attacks and eats peop ...
'', widely considered to be one of the worst movies of all time. In 2014, ''The Creep Behind the Camera'' premiered at the Imagine International Film Festival in Amsterdam. The film has received largely negative reviews, with Jay Seaver of eFilmCritic awarding it 2 out of 5 stars, calling the story "disorganized" and the acting "overdone", and ''Sound On Sight'' naming it one of the five worst films at the 2014 Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal.
[Hedges, Kenny (August 13, 2014)]
"Kenny's Five Best and Worst Films of Fantasia 2014"
''Sound On Sight''.
Filmography
* ''Hick Trek: The Moovie'' (1999)
* ''Star Warp’d'' (2000)
* ''Moses 2000'' (2000)
* ''Tell Me Something I Don’t Know'' (2001)
* ''Jimmy Hits the Big Town'' (2003)
* ''Disneyland: Then, Now, Forever'' (2005)
* ''Alice in Wasteland'' (2005)
* ''Disneyland: Secrets, Stories, & Magic'', co-director (2007)
* ''Haze'' (2008)
* ''Evil Brain from Planet X'' (2008)
* ''Conditional'' (2012)
* ''The Creep Behind the Camera'' (2014)
References
External links
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Trailers for Pete Schuermann's filmsInterview Q&A about the making of HAZE
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Living people
American film directors
Year of birth missing (living people)