Pete Schuermann
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Early career
Pete Schuermann began making movies at 19, beginning with the feature/parody Hick Trek: The Moovie, which was released to home video in 1999.In 2005, Walt Disney Studios and Buena Vista Home Entertainment tapped Pete to co-direct and edit Disneyland: Then, Now and Forever, a docu-tainment retrospective piece celebrating Disneyland’s 50th anniversary.
HAZE: The Documentary
Working with The Gordie FoundationThe Gordie Foundation
The Gordie Foundation is a 501 non-profit organization located in . The Foundation's is "to provide today's young people with the skills to navigate the dangers of alcohol, binge drinking, peer pressure and hazing." The Gordie Foundation was created in memory of 18 year-old Gordie Bailey who died...
in 2008, Schuermann directed "HAZE: The Documentary", about the story of 18-year-old Gordie Bailey who died on September 17, 2004, following a hazing incident involving alcohol in the Chi Psi
Chi Psi
Chi Psi Fraternity is a fraternity and secret society consisting of 29 active chapters at American colleges and universities. It was founded on Thursday May 20, 1841, by 10 students at Union College with the idea of emphasizing the fraternal and social principles of a brotherhood...
fraternityhouse at the University of Colorado
University of Colorado at Boulder
The University of Colorado Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado...
campus in Boulder, CO.
HAZE was an Official Selection at Hamptons Film Festival and Newport International Film Festival in 2008, and at Newport Beach Film Festival, AFI Dallas International Film Festival and Bend Film Festival in 2009.
The documentary also won the Director's Choice Award for Film/Editing at the Indie Spirit Film Festival in 2009.
Today, the film is used as a part of high school and college campus education programs on the dangers of binge drinking.
Future productions
Schuermann announced in December 2009 that his new feature-length documentary project about the sci-fi b-movie The Creeping TerrorThe Creeping Terror
The Creeping Terror is a 1964 horror/science fiction film, in which a slug-like monster terrorizes an American town after escaping from a crashed spaceship...
has received funding and begins shooting in early 2010.
Selected 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)
- HAZE: The Documentary (2008)
- Evil Brain from Planet X (2008)
- Creep (2010) Pre-Production