James Gelet - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm living the dream as a documentary filmmaker. It's been really hard at times, but extremely enjoyable. My latest project has been a three-year labor of love called, The Shark is Still Working. We're hoping this doc will be considered the ultimate celebration of the movie, Jaws. It features almost every surviving personality that was a part of the cast and crew of the movie including the key people who made Jaws the phenomenon that it is, such as Spielberg, Scheider, and Dreyfuss.
Along with interviewing the cast and crew exhaustively, we've also had the honor to interview many of today's hot filmmakers who were inspired by JAWS when they were kids. Most notably are M. Night Shyamalan, Bryan Singer, and "MySpacers" Kevin Smith , Eli Roth , Robert Rodriguez , and Eduardo Sanchez .
Right now we're very pleased to report that our first cut of the project is ready and we're working hard on getting it distributed. Stay tuned and hopefully before long you'll know all about how to add this project to your DVD collection.
Aside from that, other recent work was the behind the scenes coerage of the independent horror movie GrizzlY Park. Guess I can't get away from the ol' maneating predator motif, eh? That work is broken up into a series of small featurettes that you see on Youtube.
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My Interests

Filmmaking, Baseball (Cubbies!!), Theology, Antiques, C.S. Lewis, Photography, Keeping you guessing, Travel - international or domestic (I start getting edgy if I go a month without going SOMEWHERE - Just get me outta here). I love exotic foods and fine wine, but sometimes there is nothing more perfect than a grilled cheese with tomato soup and a Coors Light. I'm kind of a weather geek. I don't know as much about it as I'd like, but I'm fascinated by it.

I'd like to meet:

Music:

John Williams, U2, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Dave Matthews Band. Jazz and blues.

Movies:

Just about anything by Spielberg. The Fisher King, Braveheart, The Natural, The Original Star Wars Trilogy, The Shawshank Redemption, O Brother Where Art Thou, Midnight Run, Death Proof...
Oh who am I kidding? Movies are stoopid.

Television:

MASH, Seinfeld, 24, Sportcenter

Books:

Steve Alten's Meg series, The Screwtape Letters, Of Mice and Men, Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World, Francis Schaeffer's How Should We Then Live

Heroes:

My Blog

New short film entered into competition. Please vote!

Amidst the seemingly endless waiting time for a TSISW release date (which couldn't grangle me more!), we actually have managed to stay busy. A few of us from TSISW have reteamed to work on a short fil...
Posted by James Gelet on Thu, 01 May 2008 09:51:00 PST

Catch me on the cover of a New York Times Bestseller

As if my geekery hadn't already paved the way to enough odd and cool feathers in my cap, now I get to be the cover model of a New York Times Bestseller. Some of you already knew that I play the hero o...
Posted by James Gelet on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:29:00 PST

Indiana Jones! A new documentary and getting in FRONT of the camera for a change.

I guess at this point it might be easy for a lot of you to just automatically assume that Jaws is my favorite movie. Guess again. Despite growing up being a huge movie lover and Steven Spielberg fan, ...
Posted by James Gelet on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:21:00 PST

Cheese Whiz Marshmallow Peep Dog Blog!

This is totally random and stupid, but what the heck, I'm in a stupid mood. Chances are at some point later on today I will deem this blog too stupid to exist and then delete it. But like I said, what...
Posted by James Gelet on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:12:00 PST

Youtube rules!! (Unless youre the one throwing the puppy.)

Sometimes I’m on the fence about whether or not to like the fact that we now live in the Youtube generation.There’s the pure entertainment aspect of Youtube which I love. I can&r...
Posted by James Gelet on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:42:00 PST

Farewell and adieu Roy Scheider :(

Ugh! I can't even know where to begin. It goes without saying that I'm incredibly sad right now. My feelings are so far beyond that though. First it was Percy Rodrigues last September, now it's Roy Sc...
Posted by James Gelet on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:29:00 PST

I was a character in a bestselling novel.

I vividly remember walking into Barnes and Noble in Evanston, IL in the summer of 1997 when the cover of a new book on display up front caught my eye. It was simple, it had great use of color, and its...
Posted by James Gelet on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:44:00 PST

Mrs. Peter Benchley and The Shark is Still Working

In 1973, two little words inaugurated what would become the phenomenon that was (and still is) "Jaws"&"For Wendy."This simple affectionate dedication was printed on the opening page of Peter Benchley'...
Posted by James Gelet on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:35:00 PST

A new The Shark is Still Working MySpace page

I swear! Sometimes the fact that The Shark is Still Working still isn't released makes me want to blow my brains out. So many peripheral things that need to be aligned more properly than The...
Posted by James Gelet on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:23:00 PST

Grizzly Park and TSISW updates

It's been a very long, hard road on this one, but I'm very thrilled to let you guys know that Grizzly Park will indeed be getting a theatrical release. American World Pictures has stepped up to the pl...
Posted by James Gelet on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 12:10:00 PST