Jeff Celentano Net Worth is
$500,000

Mini Biography

Jeff Celentano was created and raised in Pemberton, NJ, a little rural city with towering maple trees and shrubs and its individual “Main Road”. Jeff says, “Pemberton appears similar to a back great deal at Disney when compared to a suburb in Southern NJ”. Celentano began his profession as an professional while living over the east coastline. Today, he’s fast becoming among the freshest brand-new directors in Hollywood. The professional, turned writer-director provides managed to successfully combine comedy, crisis and action along with his own personalized design. At 21, the brand new Jersey native still left the Garden Condition moving to NY. There he became thinking about acting, learning with legendary performing trainer Stella Adler and afterwards became a long-time pupil of Sanford Meisner at A NEARBY Playhouse. As an actor, Jeff passed his mother’s maiden name, Weston. He visitor starred on many tv shows from Magnum, P.We. (1980) to Dynasty (1981) and in addition twenty feature movies including The MODERN (1994) aimed by Academy Prize winning article writer Michael Tolkin. He also was ensemble in Robert Altman’s strike film, The Participant (1992). It was during this time period with Altman on group of “The Participant” that Jeff became increasingly thinking about becoming a movie director. He and Altman became close. Robert Altman’s tips to Jeff can be transported with him to all or any of his function today. Fascinated with the behind-the-scenes areas of filmmaking and desires of 1 day learning to be a director himself, Celentano’s first endeavor is at theatre. He co-directed and created the South African Play “Soweto’s Burning up” on the Hudson Backstage. The critically acclaimed creation earned the LA Times “Pick and choose from the Weekend” for five consecutive weeks. Jeff then made his composing and directing debut using the brief film Dickwad (1994) – an easy paced farce in regards to a man’s bizarre trip home from focus on his only day time off in seventeen years. The brief, which required Celentano just under a week to create, garnered the Platinum Prize for Greatest Original Comedy in the Houston Film Event, and Best Humor Short in the Philadelphia International Film Event. After touring the event circuit “Dickwad” was brought by Showtime as well as the Sundance channel. The strong buzz from your film resulted in enormous attention from your studio as well as the signing with ICM. From that achievement Jeff received personal funding to mind up his personal production organization, “Periscope Photos”. His first feature beneath the Periscope banners (which he also co-wrote) was Beneath the Hula Moon (1995). This picture starred Stephen Baldwin, Emily Lloyd and Chris Penn. “Beneath the Hula Moon” is usually a romantic humor, premiered in the Cannes Film Festival in 1995 and experienced much with Western film celebrations. It premiered in the Hamburg Film Event in Germany learning to be a strike with viewers there. Hula moon was later on released in theaters over the U.S. Jeff’s next task was Gunshy (1998), a high-impact crisis (compiled by Larry Gross who have also wrote 48 Hrs. (1982), Roads of Fireplace (1984) and THE OVERALL GAME (1997)). Gunshy’s tale centers around the partnership between a down-and-out journalist (William Petersen), an Irish mobster (Michael Wincott) and the lady they both like (Diane Street). Jeff’s determination, interest and focus on detail paid once again. He earned “Best Director Prize” with “Gunshy”, the very best honor presented on the Atlantic Town International Film Celebration. Gunshy aced your competition with the viewers favoring an easier, more emotionally billed tale to the larger studio room entries like Brian De Palma’s film Snake Eye (1998). Altogether, Jeff provides received 5 honours in his brief career being a Director. Jeff has completed directing two movies in Russia. The afterwards, State It in Russian (2007) an enchanting thriller that superstars Faye Dunaway, Rade Serbedzija, Musetta Vander and Steven Brand. Jeff recently wrapped Breaking Stage (2009) a criminal offense/crisis starring Academy Prize nominee, Tom Berenger, Armand Assante, and Busta Rhymes. He currently has many projects in the offing including a film in Sony Pictures and many independent projects. Jeff can be the Drama Movie director in the Performer’s Academy situated in Orange Region, California. There Jeff oversees aswell as teaches performing to children, teenagers, and adults. The institution provides college students with the chance to utilize film directors, suppliers, working actors and may be observed by agents on the every week basis. His connections in the entertainment market have allowed the institution to flourish as an exercise academy – while offering agents the capability to scout and possibly represent new skill. Jeff’s affects and favourite directors will be the Coen Brothers, Robert Zemeckis, Ridley Scott, Terry Gilliam, Peter Greenaway, Sidney Lumet, Martin Scorsese and David Low fat. One film, The Deer Hunter (1978) is usually his preferred film ever.

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