David Schmoeller
Assistant Professor
UNLV Film Dept.

Writer-director David Schmoeller’s most recent feature film, “Mysterious Museum," a children’s film, was shot in Sinia and Bucharest, Romania and New Orleans for Kushner-Locke Pictures. Schmoeller's next feature film will be “Summer Love,” a teenage love story set in Cuba. Schmoeller has two projects in development: “Don’t Look Back,” a crime drama and “Wild Woman in a Wedding Dress,” a romantic-comedy; both are set in Las Vegas. Currently, Schmoeller is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas where he is also the director of the UNLV Short Film Archive.

HONORS
Recipient of a 2004-2005 Nevada Arts Council grant.
Recipient of a 2003-2004 Planning Initiative Award (awarded by university president Carol Harter, UNLV) to create the UNLV Short Film Archive.
S.I.T.E. grant recipient to film “BAD DOG CHAT ROOM,” a 23 minute short film. 2003
William Randolph Hearst Visiting Professional, 1994; University of Texas at Austin
Student Academy Award Nomination, short film, 1975
Grant from the Directors Guild of America to film Thesis film: “THE SPIDER WILL KILL YOU,” 1974
Recipient of the Texas Good Neighborhood Commission Scholarship for Studies in Mexico, 1968

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Writers Guild of America - WGA
Directors Guild of America - DGA eligible
Screen Actors Guild - SAG
American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers - ASCAP
Independent Filmmakers Project, west - IFP