Jeffrey Alan Schechter
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Jeffrey Alan Schechter was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and is a graduate from the film program at Purchase College, State University of New York. After working several years in film and television editing in New York, Jeff moved to California to pursue a career in writing and directing.
Jeff's first credits were in the independent action film market, working on such films as BLOODSPORT II, THE TOWER and STREETKNIGHT. Turning to his love of family films, his spec screenplay LITTLE BIG FOOT was acquired by Working Title Films. He then did a rewrite on THE AMAZING PANDA ADVENTURE for Warner Brothers which led to his working on DENNIS THE MENACE STRIKES AGAIN. Jeff followed this with another rewrite, this time for Rysher Entertainment's IT TAKES TWO. On the heels of IT TAKES TWO, Jeff's spec screenplay STANLEY'S CUP was bought by Caravan Pictures.
After writing and directing a short film, Jeff rewrote I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS for the Walt Disney Company starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas, and wrote the TV movie BRINK! for the Disney Channel, and for which he was nominated for the Writer's Guild of America Award for Outstanding Television Writing. Jeff also wrote THE OTHER ME for the Disney Channel as well as BEETHOVEN'S 3RD for Universal Studios.
In episodic television, Jeff has written episodes of THE FAMOUS JETT JACKSON, ANIMORPHS, MARTIN MYSTERY, TOTALLY SPIES, TEAM GALAXY, GET ED, and JANE AND THE DRAGON. Jeff's love for family entertainment has never been more obvious than in his work on both DTV productions for the Care Bears; JOURNEY TO JOKE-A-LOT and THE BIG WISH MOVIE, the latter for which he was nominated for a 2005 Writer's Guild of Canada award.
Jeff was an Executive Story Editor and director on the hit Discovery Kids/NBC series STRANGE DAYS AT BLAKE HOLSEY HIGH (aka BLACK HOLE HIGH) for which he was nominated for two Emmy awards for Outstanding Writing in a Children's Series (in 2004 and 2005). The episode "Past" of STRANGE DAYS AT BLAKE HOLSEY HIGH which Jeff directed earned the series a BAFTA award for Best International Series.
Jeff has co-created the TV series, THE AVERAGE JEFF'S GUIDE TO CANADA for Global TV, I AM NOT X-OG and HIGH COURT for the Family Channel, and IN MOLLY'S OPINION for Zoom/Fresh Entertainment. He recently sold his spec script RED to Devine Entertainment and his drama OUT OF THE WOODS premiered on The Hallmark Channel.
At present, Jeff is executive story editing FREEFONIX, a new 40 episode animated series for the BBC and Cinnamon Entertainment, as well as seasons three and four of DI-GATA DEFENDERS for Nelvana and Teletoon.
