Jerome Sable

Jerome Sable is a director, writer, and composer of film, television, and commercials, as well as a stage director of opera. He is currently in production on C©PY MACHINE, a feature documentary about DeLorean time machine replica car builders produced by Bunbury Films for the CBC, and in development for WOLF OF THE NORTH, a black comedy about famed wildlife explorer Farley Pruitt Jr., produced by 90th Parallel and Beyond the Frame, with production support from Telefilm Canada. Sable’s first feature film, STAGE FRIGHT, a horror musical comedy starring Minnie Driver and Meat Loaf, premiered at SXSW Film Festival to critical acclaim and enthusiastic audience response, and was distributed by Magnolia Pictures. Before that, Sable’s horror musical short film, THE LEGEND OF BEAVER DAM, opened the Midnight Madness section of TIFF and went on to screen at over 75 film festivals worldwide, winning 17 awards, including “Best Short Film” at Sitges, Fantastic Fest, Dallas, Screamfest LA and receiving an honorable mention at Sundance. He adapted the short into a television show which he sold to Disney. Sable has worked as a writer-director / creator of film and television for NBC, Fox, Fremantle Media, Samsung, Blumhouse, Condé Nast, Gunpowder & Sky, and Sony Pictures Animation. Sable grew up in Montreal, Quebec where he studied piano and music theory at the McGill Conservatory of Music. He has a B.A. in philosophy from Brown University, an MFA in directing from the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and a GDP in opera stage directing from McGill University's Schulich School of Music.