David Schmoeller's Biography:
David Schmoeller was raised and educated in Texas, where he began his career as a young playwright. He was awarded the Texas Good Neighbor Scholarship to study in Mexico, attending the Universidad De Las Americas from 1967-1968. During his time in Mexico, Schmoeller studied theater with Alejandro Jodorowsky and was mentored in film by legendary director Luis Buñuel.
After completing his studies, Schmoeller returned to Texas and completed a Masters program in Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. His thesis film, The Spider Will Kill You, received an Academy Award Student Film Nomination in 1974.
Schmoeller's first feature film, Tourist Trap, is the favorite film of master storyteller Stephen King. His writing and directing credits include work on the highly-praised television series James at 16, as well as the feature films The Seduction, Crawlspace, Ghost Town, Catacombs, and Puppet Master.
Schmoeller's film The Arrival was selected for the Midnight Madness screening at the Toronto Film Festival, and he wrote and directed Netherworld, a ghost story filmed in New Orleans. He has also directed several children's features, including The Secret Kingdom and Mysterious Museum.
In addition to his feature work, Schmoeller has directed many hours of network television, including three seasons of the CBS-USA Network series Silk Stalkings, Renegade, and the pilot and multiple episodes of Cop Files.
Schmoeller was honored on January 26, 2007, in Paris by the Cinematheque Francaise with a tribute to David Schmoeller screening, showing two of his early features and his celebrated short documentary on directing enfant terrible Klaus Kinski.
In March 2007, Schmoeller was a Visiting International Artist at Objectifs Centre for Photography & Filmmaking in Singapore, where he shot the Singapore segment of a film he is making, Wedding Day.
Schmoeller has been an internationally recognized feature film and television writer-director for over three decades, with nine feature films, many hours of network television, and numerous award-winning shorts to his credit. He is currently an Associate Professor of film production at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and runs the Film Department's UNLV Short Film Archive.
