Darren Stein is an American film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

, screenwriter

Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

, and film producer

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

 who grew up in the San Fernando Valley

San Fernando Valley

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. Among his works include the documentary Put the Camera on Me, the upcoming summer 2010 horror comedy All About Evil, and the satirical

Satire

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 major motion picture

Major Motion Picture

Major Motion Picture is an EP by Punchline.-Track listing:# "Express"# "I Don't Know"# "Weekends"# "Here Goes Nothing"# "You Mean the World to Me"# "Yearlong Winter"# "Cold as You"# "Lights Out"...

 Jawbreaker

Jawbreaker (film)

Jawbreaker is an American black comedy satire film, directed by Darren Stein. It was released February 19, 1999. The film stars Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart, Julie Benz, and Judy Greer as girls in an exclusive clique in their high school. Charlotte Ayanna has a non-speaking cameo role as a...

 - which has been deemed a "cult classic" by the New York Post

New York Post

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, and is still referenced today in mainstream sources.

Biography

Stein started using his father’s video camera at the age of ten, creating a body of work that would later be seen in his documentary Put the Camera on Me. Upon graduating NYU film school, he co-wrote and directed his first feature, Sparkler, that premiered at the Hamptons Film Festival and won the audience award in Athens, GA. Stein’s second feature, Jawbreaker

Jawbreaker (film)

Jawbreaker is an American black comedy satire film, directed by Darren Stein. It was released February 19, 1999. The film stars Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart, Julie Benz, and Judy Greer as girls in an exclusive clique in their high school. Charlotte Ayanna has a non-speaking cameo role as a...

, premiered at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...

 and was nominated for the MTV Movie Award for “Best Villain”. Upon completing Put the Camera on Me with childhood friend Adam Shell in 2003, Stein was interviewed by Ira Glass

Ira Glass

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 on This American Life

This American Life

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. The documentary was released on DVD through Wellspring/Genius Entertainment. Stein went on to executive produce Cam Archer

Cam Archer

Cam Archer is an American independent filmmaker and photographer residing in Santa Cruz, California. His feature debut, Wild Tigers I Have Known, premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. The film was executive produced by filmmaker Gus Van Sant and producer Scott Rudin...

’s Wild Tigers I Have Known

Wild Tigers I Have Known

Wild Tigers I Have Known is a 2006 film written and directed by Cam Archer. The film premeried at the Sundance Film Festival. The film tells the story of a thirteen-year boy, Logan, played by Malcolm Stumpf, who enters into a relationship with an older boy, Rodeo. Logan's friend, Joey, was played...

, which premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival

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. In 2010, he produced All About Evil, a horror comedy starring Natasha Lyonne

Natasha Lyonne

-Early life:Lyonne was born Natasha Braunstein in Manhattan, New York City, the daughter of Yvette Lyonne, a product licensing consultant, and Aaron Braunstein, a native of Brooklyn who worked as a boxing promoter. Lyonne grew up in an Orthodox Jewish household...

 and Thomas Dekker

Thomas Dekker (actor)

Thomas Alexander Dekker is an American film and television actor and a musician. He is also a singer and has written and produced two albums. He is best known for his roles as John Connor in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Nick Szalinski on Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, and Zach...

. Most recently, he has written the book for Jawbreaker the Musical, which is scheduled for a one night showing on July 29, 2010 in Los Angeles, and featuring Jenna Leigh Green

Jenna Leigh Green

Jenna Leigh Green is an American actress and singer best known for her performances as Libby Chessler on the television show Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and on Broadway and on tour in the musical Wicked.-Early life and career:...

.

Filmography

• Aviel (1988)
• Sparkler (1997)
• Jawbreaker
  Jawbreaker (film)
  Jawbreaker is an American black comedy satire film, directed by Darren Stein. It was released February 19, 1999. The film stars Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart, Julie Benz, and Judy Greer as girls in an exclusive clique in their high school. Charlotte Ayanna has a non-speaking cameo role as a...
  
   (1999)
• Put the Camera on Me (2003)
• Wild Tigers I Have Known (2006)
• Color Me Olsen
  Color Me Olsen
  Color Me Olsen is an 18-minute 2007 short independent film directed and written by Darren Stein.-Plot:Bright-eyed 18-year-old identical twin brothers come to Hollywood with the age-old dream of becoming stars...
  
   (2007)
• All About Evil
  All About Evil
  All About Evil is a 2010 American black comedy horror film written and directed by Joshua Grannell.-Plot:The adventure tells of a shy librarian who inherits the old and not very tolerable cinema of her father, to protect the family from the shame of bankruptcy...
  
  (2010)

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