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Jeff Sumerel is known for To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore (2007), Incidental (2013) and Bragging Rites: The Carolina-Clemson Rivalry (2003).
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Jun 14, 2017 · On a stage at Furman’s Playhouse Theatre before an audience of 65 people or so and five cameras, a man’s disembodied head stares back at the crowd from his place inside a Lucite box on a table.
creative director. Spontaneous Productions. Jan 1992 - Present 32 years 6 months. - director & editor of narrative short subjects and features, as well as non-conventional documentaries;...
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- Travelers Rest, South Carolina, United States
A Düsseldorf playboy who was born with “a golden spoon in my mouth,” the son and grandson of very wealthy people, Brother Theodore watched his world collapse as Hitler took charge.
Jeff Sumerel is known for To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore (2007), Incidental (2013) and Bragging Rites: The Carolina-Clemson Rivalry (2003).
Filmmaker Jeff Sumerel wandered into a New York City theater one day to inquire about renting space. As he left, he shouted out, “Tell Theodore he’s got a fan in South Carolina. If he ever wants a documentary made about him, give me a call!”
From Weimar playboy and friend of Albert Einstein to penniless (and family-less) survivor of Dachau and refugee in Eisenhower’s America, Jeff Sumerel’s brilliant, needed documentary gives one of America’s greatest monologists a lasting stage to showcase his singular “stand-up tragedy.”
