Charles Herman-Wurmfeld
(1967 - living) U.S.A.
Movie director
Raised in New York City by an architect father (Michael Wurmfeld) and a documentary photographer mother (Hope Herman), Charles Herman-Wurmfeld grew up in a family of artists and inventors. He went on to study theater and studio art at Ohio's Oberlin College, and following graduation he started a theater company called Hubinspoke in the small rural town of Brandon, Vermont. He moved to San Francisco in the early '90s, where he established himself as a theater director.
Along with singer-songwriter D'Arcy Drollinger, he developed a trilogy of rock operas - Possession of Mrs. Jones, Suburbia 3000 and The Cereal Killers - before making his first low-budget 16mm feature, Fanci's Persuasion, an offbeat slice of experimental San Francisco life.
The experience made Herman-Wurmfeld realize that he wanted to be a filmmaker, and so in 1997 he headed to Los Angeles on his bicycle, with nothing but his banjo and a knapsack. His first project was From There to Here, a documentary about a singer who was struggling to get a record deal. As a result, the singer landed a record deal, and the film was honored as Best Music Documentary at the Yahoo! Internet Life Online Film Festival in 2000.
His work include:
- Fanci's Persuasion (1995)
- Ladyboys (1995)
- Kissing Jessica Stein (2002)
- Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)
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