Imagining 'Heavy Metal'

Jeffrey Schwarz is President & CEO of Automat Pictures, a leading producer of studio EPKs (electronic press kit), Blu-ray and DVD content, original TV programming, and feature films. He has contributed to the success of dozens of major studio releases for directors such as Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Jonathan Demme, Ron Howard, Sam Mendes, Wes Craven, Rob Reiner, Joe Dante, Barry Sonnenfeld, Paul Verhoeven, John Carpenter, Chris Columbus, and the Coen Brothers. Television productions include Starz’s “Sex and the Cinema,” “In the Gutter,” “Hitchcocked!” and “Shooting the Police: Cops on Film,” and IFC’s “Reservoir Dogs Revisited” and “Still Swingin’.” Automat Pictures provided exclusive backstage content for the 2010 Academy Awards produced by Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic. In 2008, Jeffrey premiered the GayVN award winning feature documentary “Wrangler: Anatomy of an Icon,” a portrait of adult film star Jack Wrangler. It is distributed by TLA Releasing and had its television debut on the LOGO network. “Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story,” about the legendary Hollywood showman, won the 2007 AFI Fest Documentary Audience Award among many other festival honors. It was released in 2009 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. His latest feature documentary is “Vito,” about the beloved activist and author of “The Celluloid Closet,” and the upcoming “I Am Divine,” about John Waters’ legendary muse. A New York native, Jeffrey attended SUNY Purchase’s Film Department. His first job in the film industry was as an apprentice editor on “The Celluloid Closet,” Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s film adaptation of Vito Russo’s seminal book. —IMDb