Jane Schoenbrun

Jane Schoenbrun

History

Jane Schoenbrun is a non-binary American filmmaker, writer, and curator committed to making and supporting personal, art-driven cinema. They are best known for writing, directing, and editing We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2021. They are currently in post-production for their next feature I Saw the TV Glow, which will be released in 2023 by A24.

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Jane Schoenbrun
Jane Schoenbrun
Jane Schoenbrun
Jane Schoenbrun
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Movies

Dream Team
Producer
In this absurdist homage to 90’s basic cable TV thrillers, two hot INTERPOL agents uncover an international, interspecies mystery.
I Saw the TV Glow
Screenplay
Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.
I Saw the TV Glow
Director
Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
Thanks
A mosaic-style comedy following the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.
We're All Going to the World's Fair
Editor
Reality and fantasy begin to blur when a teenager, alone in her attic bedroom, immerses herself in a role-playing horror game online.
We're All Going to the World's Fair
Writer
Reality and fantasy begin to blur when a teenager, alone in her attic bedroom, immerses herself in a role-playing horror game online.
We're All Going to the World's Fair
Director
Reality and fantasy begin to blur when a teenager, alone in her attic bedroom, immerses herself in a role-playing horror game online.
Girl Internet Show: A Kati Kelli Mixtape
Producer
This feature-length “mixtape” curated by Jane Schoenbrun and Jordan Wippell reintroduces a stunning body of work by Kati Kelli, an outsider YouTube artist who ran “Girl Internet Show” before her passing in 2019.
Girl Internet Show: A Kati Kelli Mixtape
Editor
This feature-length “mixtape” curated by Jane Schoenbrun and Jordan Wippell reintroduces a stunning body of work by Kati Kelli, an outsider YouTube artist who ran “Girl Internet Show” before her passing in 2019.
Girl Internet Show: A Kati Kelli Mixtape
Director
This feature-length “mixtape” curated by Jane Schoenbrun and Jordan Wippell reintroduces a stunning body of work by Kati Kelli, an outsider YouTube artist who ran “Girl Internet Show” before her passing in 2019.
Laying Out
Executive Producer
This tersely lyrical meditation on sex and gender roles from Joanna Arnow features two fed-up mermaids lounging on a beach, drinks in hand, as they vent and commiserate over underacknowledged frustrations and unspoken desires.
The Starr Sisters
Executive Producer
Patte and Randa Starr are fun specialists. After growing up in an abusive household set above their father's candy store, they spent their lives fighting to find joy and freedom. Now in their 70s, these sisters do exactly as they please: they live together near the beach, they always have a movie on, and the candy drawer is fully stocked.
Tux and Fanny
Executive Producer
Tux and Fanny are two friends living together in the forest and these are their adventures!
A Self-Induced Hallucination
Editor
It's about the internet, and it's quite strange.
A Self-Induced Hallucination
Producer
It's about the internet, and it's quite strange.
A Self-Induced Hallucination
Writer
It's about the internet, and it's quite strange.
A Self-Induced Hallucination
Director
It's about the internet, and it's quite strange.
The Eyeslicer Halloween Special
Executive Producer
Featuring a dozen segments of spine-tingling surrealist horror, The Eyeslicer Halloween Special takes viewers on the cinematic equivalent of an acid trip down the Halloween aisle at Party City! From an X-rated Halloween party hookup to a coming of age story set on the eve of Ted Bundy’s execution; from a documentary about pumpkin carving and misogyny to a supercut about the gendered dangers of the bathtub; from a cursed stand-up comedy set to a woman ( Carrie Coon) trapped inside a Red Lobster commercial; from a John Carpenter homage (featuring a cameo by Carpenter himself) to a sequel to The Eyeslicer’s now infamous Gwilliam, The Eyeslicer Halloween Special is an experience like no other – a deranged, proudly transgressive anthology carving out a bold new space in the Midnight movie genre.
Chained for Life
Producer
A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut.
Village People
Writer
When a man’s wife flakes on a last-ditch effort to save their marriage, his overeager brother-in-law joins him on a trip to a hipster resort in Nicaragua.
First Day Out
Executive Producer
This short was filmed during the Experimental Film Virginia program. It was later expanded on and incorporated into the anthology feature "collective:unconscious"
Collective: Unconscious
Executive Producer
A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly incarcerated recount and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom's life is upturned by the beast growing inside of her. And a high school gym teacher runs drills from inside a volcano. What happens when five of independent film's most adventurous filmmakers join together to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen?
Collective: Unconscious
Writer
A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly incarcerated recount and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom's life is upturned by the beast growing inside of her. And a high school gym teacher runs drills from inside a volcano. What happens when five of independent film's most adventurous filmmakers join together to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen?
The School Is Watching
Director
Good morning, Bear River High School. This documentary is made up entirely of high school morning announcement broadcasts from the 1990s.
Nevada
Writer
Maria, an emotionally-stunted transgender punk on an aimless road trip across the country has a chance encounter with James H., a repressed minimum-wage worker trapped in the purgatory that is rural Nevada. Over the next 24 hours, the two form an unlikely bond as Maria helps James unpack a question he’s been frightened to ask himself his entire life: is he trans?
Nevada
Director
Maria, an emotionally-stunted transgender punk on an aimless road trip across the country has a chance encounter with James H., a repressed minimum-wage worker trapped in the purgatory that is rural Nevada. Over the next 24 hours, the two form an unlikely bond as Maria helps James unpack a question he’s been frightened to ask himself his entire life: is he trans?