Vern Oakley is a television and film director based in New Jersey. He is also the founder of

Tribe Pictures Tribe Pictures is a film production company headquartered in Chatham Borough, New Jersey. They produced A Modern Affair, a 1996 independent feature film, directed by Vern Oakley, CEO of Tribe. Productions * A Modern Affair * Symphony: Stanley ...

. Oakley received top honors at the International Film and Television Festival for his direction of the Emmy Award-winning children's television series

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. His work as an editor on the documentary The Chemical People for

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garnered him an Emmy nomination. His first theatrical release feature,

A Modern Affair ''A Modern Affair'' is a 1996 independent feature film directed by Vern Oakley and produced by Tribe Pictures. Starring Stanley Tucci and Lisa Eichhorn, the film's plot reverses the conventions of romantic comedies. Instead of a man meeting a wo ...

, starring

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and

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, was invited to multiple festivals. It showed on HBO and was distributed by Columbia TriStar, which he produced and directed. His feature

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, a USA-Brazil co-production is in the preproduction stage. He lives in Chatham, NJ with his wife Mary-Jo Salerno and two children. His brother Bill Oakley was executive producer and writer on several series of

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* *https://web.archive.org/web/20100407095047/http://www.fancast.com/blogs/2009/the-movies/movie-of-the-week-a-modern-affair/ *http://iii.camden.lib.nj.us:90/search~S9/?searchtype=X&searcharg=vern+oakley&searchscope=9&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=dHats+--+Juvenile+fiction%2C {{DEFAULTSORT:Oakley, Vern Living people American film directors American television directors Year of birth missing (living people)