Jeff Bemiss | Unit of Light
Description: Unit of Light is the official website of Jeff Bemiss, independent filmmaker and professor of film.
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Jeff recently directed a half-hour dramatic web series pilot, DREAM HOUSE, based on a screenplay by David Lally. Jeff also wrote and directed THE BOOK AND THE ROSE, which won 27 awards internationally and was one of ten semi-finalists for the Academy Award for Best Short Film. Jeff shot and directed the award-winning short documentary COACHING COLBURN about a young man with Fragile-X Syndrome, which premiered at the prestigious Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.
Originally trained in scripted filmmaking, Jeff co-wrote the feature screenplay A LONG TOMORROW, a time travel drama based on a story by literary sci-fi author Jack Finney (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Time and Again). Jeff is a graduate of the University of Southern California film school and the L.A. Sanford Meisner Academy. He is a Visiting Associate Professor of the Practice in Film Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. He is a Connecticut Arts Fellow and a Film Independent Fast Track Fellow.
Jeff Bemiss | Unit of Light