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Filmography

Adventureland - ( Director / / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )

Adventureland - ( Screenplay / / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )

Swing Shift - ( Director / / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )

Superbad - ( Director / 2007 / Released / )

Hollywood Ending - ( Assistant Director / 2002 / Released / )

The Love Machine - ( Other(- LCII computer) / 2000 / Released / )

Celebrity - ( Director / 1998 / Released / )

The Daytrippers - ( Director / 1997 / Released / )

The Daytrippers - ( Screenplay / 1997 / Released / )

Vermont Is For Lovers - ( / 1993 / Released / )

Swingin' in the Painter's Room - ( Director / 1991 / Released / )

Swingin' in the Painter's Room - ( Screenplay / 1991 / Released / )

Swingin' in the Painter's Room - ( Editor / 1991 / Released / )

TV Credits

The Comeback ( 2005 / Released ): Director

Valerie Saves the Show ( 2005 )

TV Episode Director

Valerie Demands Dignity ( 2005 )

TV Episode Director

Cracking Up ( 2004 / Released ): Director

Arrested Development ( 2003 / Released ): Director

Storming the Castle ( 2004 )

TV Episode Director

Visiting Ours ( 2003 )

TV Episode Director

Charity Drive ( 2003 )

TV Episode Director

Undeclared ( 2001 / Released ): Director / Actor

The Perfect Date ( 2002 )

TV Episode Director

Truth or Dare ( 2002 )

TV Episode Director

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs ( 2002 )

TV Episode Director

Eric Visits Again ( 2001 )

TV Episode Director

The Assistant ( 2001 )

TV Episode Young Professor

(1 more)

Independent's Day ( 1998 / Released ): Actor

Full Biography (Back to top)

A protege of Steven Soderbergh and Nancy Tenenbaum, Greg Mottola made his directorial debut with "The Daytrippers" at the Slamdance Film Festival in 1996, which then went on to win mild critical applause and earn him a place in the latest new wave of independent filmmakers. Raised on Long Island, New York, Mottola studied art at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where he also made some student films and worked for one week as a production assistant on "Day of the Dead" (1985), a George Romero horror flick. He attended Columbia University for graduate school in film. While there, he made a short film entitled "Swingin' in the Painters's Room" (1989), which focused on New Yorkers, narcissism, infidelity and a portrait of Frank Sinatra all in 11 minutes and in one continuous shot as an homage to Orson Welles' "Touch of Evil". An agent sent the film to Steven "sex, lies and videotape" Soderbergh, who met with Mottola. Soderbergh liked a script Mottola had written called "Lush Life," and recommended him to the Sundance Film Festival lab. Mottola studied there in 1992, but "Lush Life" was considered too expensive to be made indie. Instead, Nancy Tenenbaum, who had produced "sex, lies and videotape" and whom Soderbergh had connected to Mottola, suggested the young filmmaker writer something which could be done on a smaller scale. Over a several year period, Mottola wrote drafts of "The Daytrippers," which focuses on a young wife in Long Island who believes her husband is cheating on her. Enlisting her family for support, they pile into a car and head for Manhattan to get the goods on the husband. Ultimately rejected by Sundance, "The Daytrippers" was produced for $60,000 on 16 millimeter, and a camera was even stolen during production. Starring Anne Meara, Parker Posey, Liev Schreiber, and Stanley Tucci -- indie favorites all -- it premiered at the Slamdance Festival in 1996, where it won the Grand Jury Prize, and was distributed by Columbia/TriStar that year. (Mottola claims to have rejected an offer by a Hollywood producer to do the film through the studio system in favor of going indie.) The film was not as embraced at the box office and by critics as other indies of the year such as "Swingers," and "Welcome to the Dollhouse," but it beat out the latter for the Grand Prix award at the Deauville Film Festival, and certainly was enough to launch Mottola's career. Mottola also appeared in a small role in the 1992 independent feature "Vermont Is Forever".

Profession(s):
director, screenwriter

Sometimes Credited As:
Gregory J Mottola

Family
brother:Tom Mottola (older)
father:John Mottola

Education
Candlewood Elementary School Rockville, Maryland
Half Hollow Hills High School East Dix Hills, New York
Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania BFA art
Columbia University New York, New York MFA film 1991

Milestones (Back to top)

2007 Helmed the comedy "Superbad" re-teaming with producer Judd Apatow and actor Seth Rogen

2005 Directed Lisa Kudrow in several episodes of "The Comeback" (HBO)

2003 Helmed episodes of the Fox series, "Arrested Development"

2001 Directed episodes of the MTV series "Undeclared" created by Judd Apatow

1996 Feature directorial and screenwriting debut, "The Daytrippers," starring Hope Davis, Stanley Tucci, Parker Posey and Liev Schreiber and produced by Tenenbaum and Soderbergh

1992 Penned the feature-length screenplay, "Lush Life," but it was considered too expensive to be made indie

1992 Appeared in a small role in the independent feature "Vermont Is Forever"

1989 Made the short, "Swingin' in the Painter's Room"; sent film to Steven Soderbergh and Nancy Tenenbaum; later aired on PBS' "American Playhouse"

1985 Worked as a production assistant on "Day of the Dead"

Raised in New York

First film made with the arts organization Pittsburgh Filmmakers, "Man Being Chased in the Woods by a Psycho Thriller"

Was working on a script "Lush Life"; accepted at the Sundance Filmmakers and Screenwriters Lab in 1992

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