Meet Jack Perez! Jack is an Independent Film Writer/Director. He’s a member of both the DGA & the WGA and has over a dozen feature films under his belt including the indie genre hit Some Guy Who Kills People, La Cucaracha, which won best feature at the Austin Film Festival, and The Big Empty which won Best New Writer at the AFI Film Fest. Jack also teaches and is the head of the directing track at Academy of Art in San Francisco. Jack and I have known each other for over 20 years and it was super fun to catch up with him and share where I’m at with Alone Girl. Our conversation spanned things like not getting caught up in festival placement, how important it is to go into the principal photography phase of your film as prepared as you can as a director, and of course, that age-old question - is a blank page a scary dark hole of nothingness or an exciting open sea of adventure and possibility?

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Jack Perez has directed over a dozen feature films, including indie hits SOME GUY WHO KILLS PEOPLE (Executive Produced by John Landis), LA CUCARACHA (Winner Best Feature Austin Film Festival), and THE BIG EMPTY (Winner AFI Film Fest Best New Writer). He virtually invented the “found-footage” genre with his groundbreaking first feature, AMERICA’S DEADLIEST HOME VIDEO, and wrote & directed the pop-culture classic, MEGA-SHARK vs. GIANT OCTOPUS.  His television directing credits include the pilot for Universal’s XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS, Fox's UNAUTHORIZED: BRADY BUNCH, THE FINAL DAYS  and SyFy's BLAST VEGAS! & DRONE WARS. 

Perez  wrote & directed the hit web series, FEAR FORCE FIVE (over 70 million views),  and hosted the acclaimed director-on-director interview series, HOLLYWOOD TRENCHES. He is also the creator of the YouTube premium movie channel, CINEFIX,  with over 3 million subscribers.

Perez has instructed on directing and writing at USC, the New York Film Academy and the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, where he has taught for 10 years and is currently the Directing Track Head.

A member of the DGA & WGA, he is the recipient of awards for both writing and directing, receiving  the critical praise of Roger Ebert,  Aint It Cool News, Fangoria, The Guardian, Film Threat, The LA Weekly, Empire magazine, the Austin Chronicle and the New York Times.