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Rolfe Kanefsky is an American film writer/director. Kanefsky grew up in the suburbs of New York and attended Hampshire College where he studied Film. He began writing stories at a young age after his childhood dream of becoming a clown took the backseat to his interest in film. By the time he was twenty-one, Rolfe had written and directed the original cult classic horror spoof There's Nothing Out There. Rolfe eventually moved to California and has since been making a living writing and directing.
Film
Kanefsky's first film was the comedy/horror feature "There's Nothing Out There" (1989) which went on to become something of a cult classic which many say was the prototype for the Scream films. Nothing went on to become a hit at the IFP in New York and the closing film at the Florence Film Festival before getting a theatrical release in New York City and Los Angeles, rave reviews in the New York Times, L.A. Times, Variety, and Hollywood Reporter, and eventually premiered on HBO. It recently was re-released as a Special Edition DVD from Image Entertainment.
After Nothing, Kanefsky directed My Family Treasure, starring Dee Wallace Stone and Theodore Bikel, and co-wrote Red Line, starring Michael Madsen. Kanefsky teamed up with producer Alain Siritzky, who produced his next few features, including Pretty Cool, a teen comedy in the tradition of American Pie, and Tomorrow By Midnight, a dark comedy thriller starring Alexis Arquette and Carol Kane. TBM won much praise in many film festivals, a rave review in the L.A. Times and been awarded BEST FEATURE in the Rhode Island Film Festival and the L.A. FirstGlance Film Festival.
More recently, Kanefsky completed production as both writer and director on a horror/comedy The Hazing starring Brad Dourif, Brooke Burke and Parry Shen. It has been covered on the E! Channel, Stuff Magazine, Fangoria Magazine, and received rave reviews from around the world. He also completed Corpses, a zombie comedy starring Jeff Fahey and Tiffany Shepis and Nightmare Man, a horror thriller independently produced under his VALKHN FILMS label, starring Blythe Metz, Tiffany Shepis and Richard Moll as well as Pocket Girl: Pretty Cool Too! -- a sequel to his teen comedy Pretty Cool.
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