Jane Schoenbrun

Jane Schoenbrun (born February 5, 1987) is an American filmmaker. Committed to making and supporting personal, art-driven cinema, Schoenbrun is best known for their films We Are All Going to the World’s Fair (2021) and I Saw the TV Glow (2024).

Works

Castration Movie Anthology iii. Year of the Hyaena

Izzy seeks out everything in her power to stop her partner from transitioning. Meanwhile, Michaela tries her best to be a good person.

Release Date2026-06-06

Charactersd Kane

Chained for Life

A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut.

Release Date2019-09-11

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Charactersd Frantic Producer (uncredited)

Vote Count38

Castration Movie Chapter iii. Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage

An abridged version of Castration Movie Anthology iii.

Release Date2026-03-22

Charactersd Kane

Vote Count1

Opener

A queer musician returns to her hometown to encounter the strange masculinity of the music scene.

Release Date2025-07-23

Charactersd Claire

I Saw the TV Glow

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate Maddy introduces him to a mysterious TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.

Release Date2024-05-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count653

Sorry, Baby

Agnes feels stuck. Unlike her best friend, Lydie, who’s moved to New York and is now expecting a baby, Agnes still lives in the New England house they once shared as graduate students, now working as a professor at her alma mater. A ‘bad thing’ happened to Agnes a few years ago and, since then, despite her best efforts, life hasn’t gotten back on track.

Release Date2025-06-27

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count263

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. But when she visits the original movie’s star, a now-reclusive actress shrouded in mystery, the two women fall into a blood-soaked world of desire, fear, and delirium.

Release Date2026-08-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Resurrection

A woman's carefully constructed life is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past returns, forcing her to confront the monster she's evaded for two decades.

Release Date2022-07-29

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count242

Random Acts of Flyness

Late-night series featuring a mix of vérité documentary, musical performances, surrealist melodrama and humorous animation as a stream-of-consciousness response to the contemporary American mediascape.

Release Date2018-08-04

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count1

Vote Count9

Monsters and Men

After capturing an illegal act of police violence on his cellphone, a Brooklyn street hustler sets off a series of events that alter the lives of a local police officer and a star high-school athlete.

Release Date2018-09-22

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count71

The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed

A mosaic-style comedy following the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.

Release Date2024-04-26

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count27

We're All Going to the World's Fair

Reality and fantasy begin to blur when a teenager, alone in her attic bedroom, immerses herself in a role-playing horror game online.

Release Date2022-04-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count150

Black Hole

Black Hole

There’s an old myth that haunts the seemingly perfect small town of Roosevelt: If you have sex too young, you’ll contract the ‘bug,’ a virus that literally turns you into a ‘monster’ from your worst nightmares. Absurd, right? That’s what Chris always assumed, until, after one reckless night at the beginning of senior year, she finds herself infected. Now she’ll be cast out to the woods to live with the other infected, where a chilling, new threat emerges: a serial killer who’s hunting them one by one.

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Everything Beautiful Is Far Away

On an isolated desert planet, a man who is looking for parts to repair his robotic companion teams up with a young woman searching for an imaginary lake.

Release Date2017-06-21

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count37

OBEX

Conor Marsh lives a secluded life with his dog, Sandy, until one day he begins playing OBEX, a new, state-of-the-art computer game. When Sandy goes missing, the line between reality and game blurs and Conor must venture into the strange world of OBEX to bring her home.

Release Date2026-01-09

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count11

Laying Out

This tersely lyrical meditation on sex and gender roles from Joanna Arnow features two fed-up mermaids lounging on a beach, drinks in hand, as they vent and commiserate over underacknowledged frustrations and unspoken desires.

Release Date2019-10-06

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count1

Speechless

Dan's two lifelong best friends ask him to give a speech at their wedding. The only problem: he hates the groom and is still in love with the bride.

Release Date2012-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobCo-Producer

Collective: Unconscious

A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly incarcerated recount and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom's life is upturned by the beast growing inside of her. And a high school gym teacher runs drills from inside a volcano. What happens when five of independent film's most adventurous filmmakers join together to literally adapt each other’s dreams for the screen?

Release Date2016-08-05

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count9

Memphis

The film stars musician Willis Earl Beal, who spends his time “surrounded by beautiful women, legendary musicians, a stone-cold-hustler, a righteous preacher, and a wolfpack of kids,” while working less on his music and more on the state of his soul.

Release Date2014-09-05

DepartmentProduction

JobArt Department Production Assistant

Vote Count12

Swallowed

Sam, newly a mother, shops at a supermarket with her baby and husband Carlson. She throws a neighborhood shishkabob party and has a family Sunday breakfast. But through her smiles and picturesque tasks, there's a suppression. Sam’s grown something she can no longer contain. This breaking point is the film SWALLOWED, where psychological horror meets dance.

Release Date2016-03-13

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count2

She's Nonbinary

Nonbinary Max and their straight, cisgender boyfriend Jake face a major identity crisis after Max reveals they are finally off the waitlist for top surgery.

Release Date2025-07-17

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Village People

When a man’s wife flakes on a last-ditch effort to save their marriage, his overeager brother-in-law joins him on a trip to a hipster resort in Nicaragua.

Release Date2017-06-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

A Self-Induced Hallucination

A documentary about the mythos and real-world effects of the internet legend, Slender Man, consisting of clips from various sources from across the internet.

Release Date2018-06-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count6

October Crow

A young woman flees Kentucky to the last Babylon, New York City, where she is befriended by James Steele, a benevolent fiend who names her Bella and introduces her to the other side of life as a dominatrix in a religious brothel run by La Bruja.

Release Date2024-10-30

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Our Effed Up World

Sheri thought her biggest problem in life was dealing with the recent loss of her beloved grandma. But when a mysterious entity crash lands in the woods, only she and her group of shitkicker friends are what stands in the way of an insatiable, intergalactic hunger.

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Dick Pics! (A Documentary)

A stop-motion documentary that asks men one of the crucial questions of our era: “What compels you to send pictures of your penis to non-consenting others?”

Release Date2019-10-18

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count1

The School Is Watching

Good morning, Bear River High School. This documentary is made up entirely of high school morning announcement broadcasts from the 1990s.

Release Date2015-06-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Dream Team

In this absurdist homage to '90s basic cable TV thrillers, two hot INTERPOL agents uncover an international, interspecies mystery.

Release Date2024-11-15

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Lovewatch

Release Date2017-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobAssociate Producer

Pots N' Tots

Two ceramicists are split apart by their pottery studio for mysterious purposes. Does the studio really have their best interests in mind, or is something sinister bubbling beneath the surface?

Release Date2019-09-16

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

The Eyeslicer: Halloween Special

Featuring a dozen segments of spine-tingling surrealist horror, The Eyeslicer Halloween Special takes viewers on the cinematic equivalent of an acid trip down the Halloween aisle at Party City! From an X-rated Halloween party hookup to a coming of age story set on the eve of Ted Bundy’s execution; from a documentary about pumpkin carving and misogyny to a supercut about the gendered dangers of the bathtub; from a cursed stand-up comedy set to a woman ( Carrie Coon) trapped inside a Red Lobster commercial; from a John Carpenter homage (featuring a cameo by Carpenter himself) to a sequel to The Eyeslicer’s now infamous Gwilliam, The Eyeslicer Halloween Special is an experience like no other – a deranged, proudly transgressive anthology carving out a bold new space in the Midnight movie genre.

Release Date2018-09-25

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Black Soil, Green Grass

A dystopian tale, shot in magisterial black and white, about a world that’s variously tortured and enlivened by sound.

Release Date2016-08-04

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count1

Girl Internet Show: A Kati Kelli Mixtape

This feature-length “mixtape” curated by Jane Schoenbrun and Jordan Wippell reintroduces a stunning body of work by Kati Kelli, an outsider YouTube artist who ran “Girl Internet Show” before her passing in 2019.

Release Date2022-04-10

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count1

Gwilliam's Tips For Turning Tricks Into Treats

This is what you wanted! Gwilliam is back and offers some tips for getting special treats this Halloween.

Release Date2018-09-27

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count2

The Starr Sisters

Patte and Randa Starr are fun specialists. After growing up in an abusive household set above their father's candy store, they spent their lives fighting to find joy and freedom. Now in their 70s, these sisters do exactly as they please: they live together near the beach, they always have a movie on, and the candy drawer is fully stocked.

Release Date2019-09-16

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Tux and Fanny

Tux and Fanny are two friends living together in the forest and these are their adventures!

Release Date2019-05-02

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count10