Dan Schaefer Movies and TV Shows

Biography

Award winning concept/storyboard artist Dan Schaefer has contributed his skills to film and television productions for more than 30 years. His list of projects varies from animation (Teen-Age Mutant Turtles animated TV series), advertising campaigns (NBA, Microsoft, BMW, Adidas, Nike, Intel, HP, Clorox, Airwick, Cadillac, Four Seasons) and feature films/television (BBC, Disney, NBC/Universal, MGM, Lions Gate, Paramount, TNT, HBO, Netflix, Netflix UK). He has worked as a pre-visualization artist with Gus Van Sant (Paranoid Park, To Each His Own Cinema, Milk), Guillermo Arriga (The Burning Plain), Jonathan Frakes and Frank Oz (Leverage), Rob Bowman(Staties), Tom McCarthy(Timmy Failure), and Peter Sollett (Metal Lords). His diverse skill set has led him into art direction/Visual Consultant (Valley of Light, The Water Man), animation design(My Summer as a Goth, The Water Man) producing (associate producer on the film Deep Winter) and directing/producing a series of award winning documentaries(Mania, Kings of the Road, Figaro, and House By the Side of the Road) that have been aired on Comcast Sports Net and PBS. Works include concept/storyboard/prop artist on Grimm(NBC), TNT's Leverage/Librarians, The Break(BBC), Here and Now(HBO), American Vandal, Metal Lords, The Last Bus(Netflix), The Girl in the Woods(Peacock) and The Split(BBC). His short music film Highland Home (directed, written and produced), has garnered 55 awards, 19 nominations, and was selected to 200 film festivals world wide to date.