Jane Schoenbrun
Jane Schoenbrun is an American filmmaker. Born in 1987. While in college, Schoenbrun worked as a production assistant on short films. by the Safdie brothers. After graduating, they moved back to New York and began working for the Independent Filmmaker Project. From 2011 to 2019, they wrote articles for Filmmaker magazine. In 2014, they served as the lead of film partnerships at Kickstarter. Schoenbrun was a founding programmer of the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation. They also contributed to the programming at Spectacle Theater in Brooklyn, as well as curating special screenings for other independent film organizations.Schoenbrun made their directorial debut in 2018 with the documentary A Self-Induced Hallucination. The documentary demonstrated how user-generated videos can create online communities and shared lore. Their film We're All Going to the World's Fair premiered during the 2021 Sundance FF. Critics noted that it paid homage to low-budget horror films. Schoenbrun's next feature, I Saw the TV Glow, premiered at the 2024 Sundance FF before screening at the Berlin IFF and the South by Southwest FF. In 2025, Schoenbrun finished the filming for Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. Netflix ordered a straight-to-series adaptation of Charles Burns' graphic novel Black Hole, with Schoenbrun writing and directing.
Filmography
Self-Induced Hallucination (doc․, 2018), We're All Going to the World's Fair (2021), I Saw the TV Glow (2024), Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026).