Bruce Jurgens
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 Jurgens at 2011 Producers Guild of America PGA opening event |
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| Born | Bruce Jurgens July 11, 1965 San Diego, California, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | film producer, entrepreneur |
| Influenced by | Syd Mead, Ridley Scott, John Hughes, Richard Branson |
| Net worth |  $7.0 million |
| Religion | Jewish Reform Judaism |
| Children | 2, Gabriel, Charles |
Bruce Jurgens (born July 11, 1965 in San Diego, California, United States) is an award-winning filmmaker and entrepreneur with over twelve years of feature film production experience. He has a major role in award-winning production in Hollywood and Europe. He has founded and co-founded several major production houses. Jurgens is also the Chairman of EMERALD Group, a Social Entrepreneurship using business practices to solving societal problems within education.
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[edit] Early life
Jurgens was born in San Diego, California then after one year old moved to Washington DC where he lived until he was a young teen. Returning from high school in Miami he then attended American University, Georgetown University, and study fine arts at Corcoran College of Art and Design.
[edit] Career
His creativity and insight into Computer Generated Imagery or CGI technologies has taken him to work in different world-class film studios all over the world, including Prague, London, Miami, France, Poland. He can often be found working in remote parts of the World.
Jurgen's passion for film making dates back to his youth in Washington DC and Baltimore where as a college student he started creating his own WAY. While all the students were filming suicides shorts - Bruce discovered that he likes to experiment with go motion to achieving visuals similar to the early Star Wars films. So he did his first short film with go motion and time warping using a custom 8mm film camera that he retrofitted for the task.
Few years after he was shooting television commercials and pilots as a director of photography on 16mm and 35mm on the east coast of the US. He was still feeling that he wants to do something more challenging, so he started studying Computer-generated imagery or CGI by himself and working night in post-production studio.
His first few CGI films were simple experiments and animation of 2d and 3d elements that were later used for several national advertising campaigns for MCI and BMW.
Jurgens specializes in managing complex visual effects sequences, directing heavy / intensive effect on both "A" level feature films and nationally broadcast commercial campaigns.
Recently, his entertainment company Legion Entertainment LLC completed work on Battle: Los Angeles, Monster House at Sony Pictures in Los Angeles. At another top of the line studio, Jurgens was the Executive Producer on several major feature. Other prized work includes The Day After Tomorrow, Babe, and X-Men, Hollywood.
[edit] Credits as Producer
- The Bridge (2013)
- H18 (2014)
- Pandora (2015)
- The Zoo Story - Stage-play (1995)
[edit] Credits as Consulting Producer
- Hunchback (2011)
- Marked (2008)
- Katyń (2007)
- We're All Christs (2006)
- Merry Widow (2005)
- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
[edit] Credits as Digital Producer and EP
- Click (2006)
- Cursed (2005)
- Mindhunters (2004)
- Scary Movie 2 (2001)
- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
[edit] Credits as Senior Creative
- Open Season (2006)
- Monster House (2006)
- Stealth (2005)
- The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
- Hellboy (2004)
