Lewis Schoenbrun

Lewis Andrew Schoenbrun born September 21 1958 is an American filmmaker and editor Schoenbrun became a fan of director Stanley Kubrick at age nine when he watched the film 2001 A Space Odyssey At eleven years old Schoenbrun shot short films with his fathers super 8 film camera and received his own camera from his parents at the age of thirteen In the 1970s during his time at a university he worked at a PBS station in Atlanta Georgia and later spent a year working with Tela Moving Images a production company in Springfield Massachusetts During his time with the production company he used a Moviola to edit a documentary film about a trip to Kenya Africa that he went on with a group of aspiring astronomers In the late 1980s Schoenbrun acted as an assistant editor on the films Mystic Pizza and UHF After directing several directtovideo films in the 2000s Schoenbrun and a producer wanted to make a horror adaptation of the comic book hero SpiderMan starring a female protagonist In the summer of 2010 having instead chosen to create a parody film of the character the Hulk Schoenbrun financed and directed the film The Amazing Bulk in Los Angeles California He remained in Los Angeles to work on the films postproduction and to shoot the film Aliens vs Avatars