Indie Filmmaker Jeff Baena Has Passed Away At 47

[ad_1] Tragic information. Jeff Baena has died. The screenwriter and movie director is finest identified for Life After Beth (2014), Joshy (2016), The Little Hours (2017), Horse Lady (2020), Spin Me Spherical (2022), and for co-writing I Coronary heart Huckabees (2004). He's additionally the husband of actress and producer Aubrey Plaza, and so they have been married since 2021.

Circumstances of his passing are unclear at this second, and we are going to replace the put up as extra is available in. After graduating NYU Movie College, Baena moved to Los Angeles to begin constructing his profession. He turned a manufacturing assistant for Robert Zemeckis, engaged on quite a lot of movies, adopted by a job as an assistant editor for writer-director David O. Russell.

Baena maybe is understood for co-writing I Coronary heart Huckabees which was nominated for the 2004 Gotham Award for Finest Function. In 2014, he made his directorial debut with Life After Beth which he additionally wrote. The movie premiered on the 2014 Sundance Movie Competition, the place it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize after which launched by A24. Subsequent, he wrote and directed Joshy which premiered on the 2016 Sundance Movie Competition and was additionally nominated for the Grand Jury Prize following a launch by Lionsgate. Baena wrote and directed The Little Hours which was nominated for the Viewers Award on the 2017 Edinburgh Worldwide Movie Competition and was additionally launched in theaters. In 2020, Baena co-wrote, directed, and produced Horse Lady which premiered on the 2020 Sundance Movie Competition and was launched on Netflix shortly after. He additionally wrote, directed, and produced Spin Me Spherical which premiered on the 2022 South by Southwest Movie Competition, which was launched by IFC Movies.

On tv, Baena created, wrote, directed and govt produced the Showtime sequence, Cinema Toast.

Baena is survived by spouse Aubrey Plaza, mother Barbara Stern and stepfather Roger Stern, dad Scott Baena and stepmother Michele Baena, brother Brad Baena and stepsister and stepbrother Bianca Gabay and Jed Fluxman.