JAY WOELFEL BIO AND FILMOGRAPHY

Jay Woelfel has spent his career working in all phases of production and post production in film, video, and interactive productions. Jay won the Interactive Academy Award for Best Documentary for TITANIC, a project he wrote and directed which was narrated by Patrick Stewart. It is one of five awards Titanic has won since its release in 1994. In 1993 he won an OBIE and TWO EMMY awards for his production of NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE'S THE BIRTHMARK. (THE BIRTHMARK has aired Nationally on PBS since the award) He edited the Academy Award nominated short film BRONX CHEERS. On the strength of his body of work Jay Woelfel was selected by The United States Information Agency as one of the six best film students in the United States to represent it at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. 

In his spare time he has lectured about filmmaking at UCLA, IFP West, Cal State Northridge, and University of Bowling Green. He also served as on the screening selection committee for the Science Fiction and Horror Academy in 1991 and 1992. As a published writer he was recommended for the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for best short horror fiction of the year.

 

 

Photo By Albert L. Ortega

 

* An Award Winning Production (A total of 24 awards.)

2006
HORATIO'S HAMLET Director, Co producer
EVIL AND DANGEROUS MEN (Long Form Music Video) Producer
2005
HOUSE AT THE END OF THE DRIVE (Feature) Director of additional scenes
ARCHON INVADERS (Feature) Composer
2004
GHOST LAKE (Feature) Director, Writer, Composer, also Co-Editor
2003
EMMANUELLE VS. DRACULA (Feature) Co-Composer
CAMP UTOPIA (Feature) Post Production Supervisor
THE BAGMAN (Feature) Composer
2002
TRANCERS 6 (Feature) Director, Co-Editor
WOMEN OF CLICK Editor (promotional reel for ASP Productions)
EX INFERIS Co-writer
BROKEN PLAY (Feature) Editor
REFLEX ACTION (Feature) Editor (stars Richard Lynch)
2001
DEMONICUS (Feature) Director, Co-Editor
HELL’S HIGHWAY (Feature) Music
DEMON’S KISS (Feature) Editor
PRETTY COOL (Feature) Co-Editor
2000
TRAIN QUEST (Feature) Screenstory(children’s film for Kurshner Locke)
OUT OF THESE ROOMS (Feature) Additional Editing, starring Robert Patrick
1999
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA Co-Director (series pilot/promo)
* MIDNIGHT 5 (Feature) Composer, Capital Films, starring Carol Kane, Alexis Arquette
ANCIENT DESIRES (Feature) Writer for Cinemax
UNSEEN EVIL (Feature) Director, Co Editor starring Tim Thomerson, Richard Hatch, Robbie Rist
CUT THROAT Composer
TEARS OF BLOOD Composer (music video Arcane Ent.)
THE SCREAMING (Feature) Composer for Burning Moon
1998
IRON THUNDER (Feature) Director, Writer, Editor starring Richard Hatch
ALIEN FILES (Feature) Composer for Cinemax
THINGS 3 (Feature) Composer
* DISTURBANCE AT DINNER Editor, starring Kelly Rutherford
LETTER FROM DEATH ROW (Feature) Assistant Camera starring Brett Michaels, Martin Sheen & Charlie Sheen
1997
PUBLIC ENEMY (Feature) Co-writer, Director, Composer
CURSE OF THE PUPPETMASTER (Feature) Co-Writer for Full Moon
SPIRIT'S CAFE Editor
* FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS (Feature) Editor starring Will Wheaton, Richard Moll, Corin Nemic, Melanie Linsky
SWEET REVENGE (Feature) Composer
CYBERDORM (Feature) Editor
POWER FLOWER (Feature) Composer (Concorde)
ROD STEELE (Feature) Composer (Concorde)
1996
TOGETHER AND ALONE (Feature) Post Advisor screened at Sundance Film Fest in 1999
TROJAN WOMEN Editor stars Mariette Hartley
BAO (Feature) Production Advisor
EVIL SISTERS (Feature) Composer (Vista Street)
1995
FLIGHT TO DANGER (Feature) Editor for Vista Street
JACK TAKES A VACATION Producer, Editor for Merv Griffin Productions
* PARTY Editor, Writer (stars Gary Coleman)
1994
***** TITANIC (Feature) CDI stars Patrick Stewart
FIGHT OR DIE (Feature) Co-Writer
FENDERHEAD (Feature) Co-Writer for Rocket Pics.
PUPPETWARS: THE TRILOGY Co-Writer (3 Features for Full Moon)
* TILTED TELEVISION Editor (TV series pilot TELE AWARD)
ADVENTURE FAMILY Co-Director (TV series promo)
HUMAN PREY (Feature) Composer for Vista Street)
* NITE LIGHT Composer
ACCOUNTING IN THE 90's Sound, Sound editing (Industrial)
1993
WITH CRIMINAL INTENT (Feature) Dir, Co-Writer, Co-Editor stars Jorge Rivero & Joe Estevez
THE SUMMONED (Feature) Composer for Cinequannon
LAST CHANCE (Feature) Composer
R & J (ROMEO & JULIET) Editor
1991-1992
THE MERCHANT (Feature) Composer, Post Advisor
THINGS (Feature) Co-Director, Editor, Composer
EDDIE PRESLEY (Feature) Editor for Sundance Channel Starring Lawrence Tierney,Duane Whitaker, Clu Gulager, Roscoe Lee Browne, directed by Jeff Burr
I DEPEND ON YOU Editor (Music Video) directed by Jeff Burr
1989-1990
THE FALLEN ANGELS (Feature) Post Production Advisor (Stars Linnea Quigley)
** BRONX CHEERS Editor (Nominated for An Academy Award) directed by Raymond DeFelitta
1988
BEYOND DREAM'S DOOR (Feature) Director, Writer, Composer
COME TO ME SOFTLY Writer Director Composer (Screened at Academy of Sci-Fi)
HE! Writer, Director, Composer, (Screened at Academy of Sci-Fi)
* SONG OF THE RIPPER Composer
ADRIA LABS Sound (Feature Lenght Industrial)
1987
**** THE BIRTHMARK Writer, Director, Composer, (Winner of two 1993 Emmy awards)
CARTS Director of Photography, Composer stars Melina Kanakaredes
ROAD MEAT (Feature) Director of Photography
DEPRIVATION Composer
THE INSCRIPTION Composer
1986
* DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO POINTS Writer, Editor, Videographer AFI award best prod in Midwest (Screened at Cannes 1986)
DEED WITHOUT A NAME Composer
TABULA RASA Composer
BERT'S HOUSE Director, Writer, Composer
FEMME FATALE Composer
DIAL OF DEATH Composer
1985
ANGEL OF FEAR Director, Writer, Composer (Screened at Cannes 1986, Las Vegas Festival 1991)
WOMB AT THE TOP Director, Writer, Composer
INSIDE OUT Editor, Associate Director, Composer
SKELETON KEY Sound
1984
* THE SHADOWS OF SUMMER also as Co-Editor
* REASONABLE DOUBT Composer
* HOT LUNCH CinemaScope Advisor, Sound
LOLA Composer, Sound
LUNATIC FRINGE Actor
1983
* BEYOND DREAM'S DOOR (short version) Director, Writer, Composer, Editor
AT THE DOOR OF DARKNESS Director, Writer, Composer, Editor
I CAN'T LIVE Sound
1982
A RANSOM FOR LOVE Director, Writer, Composer, Editor (45 minute animated James Bond Spoof)
THE HUNGER ARTIST Sound
JACKET WEATHER (music video) Director of Photography
1981
STUFFED ANIMAL Director, Writer, Composer, Editor
REVENGE OF THE WEREPOODLE Director, Writer, Composer, Editor
1980
THE ESCAPE Director, Writer, Composer, Editor
* SATANIC SOCKS Director, Writer, Composer, Editor
UNREAL REALITY Director, Writer, Composer, Editor
JAMES BONDROCK VS. (45 minute animation)
THE NEO NAZIS Director, Writer, Editor
1977-1980
THE LITTLE PRINCE (Live television play) Actor
LITTLE BUFORD (In Search of… TV series spoof)
STAR TREK (animated Star Trek Spoof)

 

Partial List of Awards and Nominations

Nominated Best Supporting Actress - Microcinemafest - 2005 ("Ghost Lake")
Screened in competition - Microcinemafest- 2005 ("Ghost Lake")
Recommendation Bram Stoker Award – 2002 (“Self Made Man”)
Honorable Mention – Screenplay Festival – 2002 (Wilderness of Dreams)
Quarterfinalist – New Century Writer’s Awards – 1999 (Wilderness of Dreams)
Semifinalist – Nicholl Fellowships 1997 – (Wilderness of Dreams)
Semifinalist – The Writer’s Network – 1996 (Wilderness of Dreams)
Semifinalist – The Writer’s Network – 1996 (Guilty as Hell)
Interactive Academy Award for Best Documentary - 1994 (TITANIC)
Two Emmy Awards, OEB – 1993 (Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Birthmark”)
Academy Award Nomination – 1991 (Bronx Cheers - AFI short film)
The United States Information Agency – 1986 (One of 6 students chosen nationwide to represent America at the Cannes Film Festival)
AFI award best production in Midwest – 1986 (Distance Between Two Points)

 

 

 
     
 
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