Jeffrey Blitz Biography

Fast Facts

• Won an SXSW Film Festival Award for Documentary Feature for "Spellbound" in 2002
• In total, his film "Spellbound" was nominated for 15 different awards, 12 of which he won
• Won a Melbourne International Film Festival Award for Most Popular Documentary for "Spellbound" in 2003
• Won two Durango Film Festival Awards, a Filmmakers Award and an Audience Award, for "Spellbound" in 2003
• Graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a Master's degree in Creative Writing in 1991 and from the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts in 1997
• Quote: "Casting is like falling in love․ You think you know what you want and you think you can describe it, but you really don't know until it walks through the door․"
• Quote: "(On "Lucky"): "I think with lottery winners, they think they're getting one story of their futures, of their lives when they win, and very quickly they learn that actually someone's written a completely different story for them․""
• Quote: "I think filmmaking is figuring out how much of your original conception you want to insist on hanging onto and how much you want to let go of, and see where the world takes you․"
• Best known as the producer and director of "Spellbound" and as the writer and director of "Rocket Science․"