Joel Gallen is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He has produced the MTV Movie Awards

MTV Movie Awards

The MTV Movie Awards is a film awards show presented annually on MTV . It also contains movie parodies that used official movie footage with hosts and other celebrities and music performances. The nominees are decided by producers and executives at MTV. Winners are decided online by the general...

 between 1995 and 2006, as well as many of the Comedy Central Roast

Comedy Central Roast

The Comedy Central Roasts are a series of celebrity roast specials which air on the Comedy Central cable network.-History:Between 1998 and 2001, Comedy Central produced and televised the annual roasts of the New York Friars' Club. After the original five-year agreement expired, the network began...

s. Gallen directed the film Not Another Teen Movie

Not Another Teen Movie

Not Another Teen Movie is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Joel Gallen, released on December 14, 2001 by Columbia Pictures. It is a parody of teen movies which have accumulated in Hollywood over the last few decades...

. He received a Prime Time Emmy and a Peabody for his work on America: A Tribute to Heroes

America: A Tribute to Heroes

America: A Tribute to Heroes was a benefit concert created by the heads of the four broadcast networks. Joel Gallen was selected by them to produce and run the show Joel Gallen. Actor George Clooney wrangled the celebrities to performed and to man the telephone bank . The marketing and public...

.

He has his own production company called Tenth Planet Productions.

Filmography

• Car Ride
• Dixie Chicks on the Fly (2000)
• America: A Tribute to Heroes
  America: A Tribute to Heroes
  America: A Tribute to Heroes was a benefit concert created by the heads of the four broadcast networks. Joel Gallen was selected by them to produce and run the show Joel Gallen. Actor George Clooney wrangled the celebrities to performed and to man the telephone bank . The marketing and public...
  
  (2001)
• Not Another Teen Movie
  Not Another Teen Movie
  Not Another Teen Movie is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Joel Gallen, released on December 14, 2001 by Columbia Pictures. It is a parody of teen movies which have accumulated in Hollywood over the last few decades...
  
  (2001)
• Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson (2005)
• Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner (2006)
• Comedy Central Roast of Flavor Flav (2007)
• Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget (2008)
• Comedy Central Roast of Joan Rivers (2009)
• Comedy Central Roast of David Hasselhoff (2010)

He also produced the movie Zoolander and is the executive producer of the show The Sing-Off.

External links

• Tenth Planet Productions