That kid is destined for pictures — The fantastic voyage of John Scheinfeld
No stranger to retro pop culture, filmmaker John Scheinfeld has written, produced, or directed — sometimes all three — esteemed documentaries over a 20-year period examining The Unknown Marx Brothers, Sinatra: The Classic Duets, The U.S. vs. John Lennon, Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin’ About Him?), The Bee Gees: This Is Where I Came In, Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of ‘Smile’, and Ricky Nelson Sings. Scheinfeld is most assuredly not one to rest on his laurels.
A product of supportive parents from Chicago, Illinois, the director’s cinematic passion manifested itself as an 11-year-old collecting tapes from the golden age of radio. He was definitely not your run-of-the-mill teenager.
Excusing himself after dinner, Scheinfeld could escape to a dimension where imagination reigned and possibilities were endless. A screening of the immortal Lawrence of Arabia [1962] convinced Scheinfeld that he had to be in the moving picture business.
Graduating from film school at Northwestern University in Chicago, the intensely driven young man spent hours researching the names of approximately 50 studio executives, network programmers, and production companies.
