Keith Spiegel

Keith Spiegel attended Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, where he co-produced his first student film with filmmaker Darren Stein ("Jawbreaker"). Keith and his friend Oliver Robins later organized a student film festival at USC which was judged by director Alan Parker ("Fame") and Anthony Perkins ("Psycho"). The festival's top award went to a last-minute submission entitled "The Dirk Diggler Story" by an 18-year-old Paul Thomas Anderson. While attending Brown University, Keith was picked by his fellow classmate Doug Liman to be the Program Director of "University Network", a national college television network that Liman had recently founded with a grant from CBS. After graduating Brown, Spiegel moved up to Vermont to become a segment producer on a regional PBS magazine show called "Points North". Keith then wrote and directed the Warner Home Video release "The Junior Defenders", a comedy which starred Ally Sheedy and was narrated by filmmaker John Waters. Pauly Shore and Kevin Smith both appeared in the film. Shoreline Entertainment handled the film's foreign sales. Keith also co-founded the Slamdunk Film Festival in Park City, Utah, which took place for six years alongside Sundance. The festival featured the world premieres of "Pauly Shore is Dead" and the controversial Nick Broomfield documentary "Kurt and Courtney". Speakers at Slamdunk included Doug Liman, Janeane Garofalo, Allison Anders, George Hickenlooper, and Lloyd Kaufman. Attendees at Slamdunk included Sofia Coppola, Spike Jonze, and former Vice-President Al Gore.