Biographical Information:
Jud Cremata is an award-winning writer, producer
and director in both television and feature films. After graduating
USC's prestigious School of Cinema-Television, Jud worked his
way up through independent features as an accountant, assistant
editor, assistant director, production manager, unit director
and producer. His record for being on budget lead to an association
with Roger Corman and to his producing Japanese novelist/director
Ryu Murakami's (Tokyo Decadence) Because of You
for which he negotiated an unprecedented deal with the U.S. Department
of Treasury to take an American crew to Cuba despite the embargo.
He produced Emmy-nominated actor/director Bryan Cranston's (Malcolm
in the Middle) Last Chance, which was awarded Best
Drama at the 1999 Breckenridge Festival of Film and the Audience
Award at the 2000 Valleyfest Film Festival. Last Chance
is being distributed by Showtime in early 2004. His next feature,
The Big Thing, led to an invitation to speak on "The
Producing in Digital" panel at the Sundance Film Festival.
In 2000, Jud founded BudgetCheetah.com,
a company offering production budget estimation services by a
network of working film professionals. This summer, MovieMaker
Magazine touted the company as providing "all the tools
you need to start pre-production."
Jud is the director of Killing Off,
a short film about a woman alone in a rain-swept cabin who is
shocked by her attraction to a bizarre picture that she took
that day in the woods. Shot entirely on one set and in one room,
Killing Off is a glimpse into the mind of a woman with
a repressed memory: the root of her fantasies and nightmares.
Killing Off premiered at the 1999 Seattle Int’l Film
Festival and, subsequently, was offered a distribution license
by Atom Films.
As field director for Animal Planet's The
Jeff Corwin Experience, Jud traveled to over 20 countries
and helmed the show during its highest ratings period. Currently,
he is the show’s supervising producer.
Jud's latest feature screenplay, Scalp
Peeled Forward, is a finalist in Slamdance, American Screenwriting
and Storybay 2003 screenplay competitions as well as the Grand
Prize winner of the 2003 WriteMovies screenplay competition.