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'''Victor Ronald Salva'''<ref name="meganslaw">{{cite web |url=http://www.meganslaw.ca.gov/cgi/prosoma.dll?searchby=offender&id=1869408346188 |title=California Registered Sex Offender Profile – Victor Salva |publisher=Megan's Law – California Sex Offender Registry |accessdate=February 10, 2010 }}</ref> (born March 29, 1958) is an [[United States|American]] [[film director]]. He is best known for directing the films ''[[Powder (film)|Powder]]'' and ''[[Jeepers Creepers (2001 film)|Jeepers Creepers]]''.
'''Victor Ronald Salva'''<ref name="meganslaw">{{cite web |url=http://www.meganslaw.ca.gov/cgi/prosoma.dll?searchby=offender&id=1869408346188 |title=California Registered Sex Offender Profile – Victor Salva |publisher=Megan's Law – California Sex Offender Registry |accessdate=February 10, 2010 }}</ref> (born March 29, 1958) is an [[United States|American]] [[film director]] and convicted child molester. He is best known for directing the films ''[[Powder (film)|Powder]]'' and ''[[Jeepers Creepers (2001 film)|Jeepers Creepers]]''.


==Early life==
==Early life==

Revision as of 15:47, 31 August 2013

Victor Salva
Mugshot of Salva in 2000
Born
Victor Ronald Salva

(1958-03-29) March 29, 1958 (age 66)
Martinez, California, United States
OccupationFilm director
Years active1986 – present
Notable workPowder
Jeepers Creepers
AwardsMoxie! Award for Best Feature – Santa Monica Film Festival
1999 Rites of Passage

Victor Ronald Salva[1] (born March 29, 1958) is an American film director and convicted child molester. He is best known for directing the films Powder and Jeepers Creepers.

Early life

Salva was born into a conservative Catholic family in Martinez, California. His biological father abandoned the family and Salva reports that the stepfather was often drunk and physically abusive.[2]

One of his favorite pastimes as a child was watching Creature Features on television and is a self-confessed "Jaws baby".

Early career

In 1986, he made the low budget horror film Something in the Basement which attracted the attention of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, who in turn helped Salva finance his first feature-length film, Clownhouse (1989), and many subsequent films.[2]

Clownhouse and criminal conviction

While directing Clownhouse, Salva, then 29, molested one of the film's actors, who was 12 years old at the time. The sexual acts were videotaped by Salva, who pleaded guilty to one count of lewd and lascivious conduct, one count of oral copulation with a person under 14, and three counts of procuring child pornography.[1] Salva was sentenced to three years in prison. He served 15 months of the sentence before being paroled,[2] and is registered as a sex offender.

Later career

After being released from prison, Salva had a series of odd jobs, while trying to get hired as a film director, living off some financial support given to him by Coppola.[2]

Seven years after Clownhouse, Salva made another film, The Nature of the Beast. In 1995, he directed the Disney-financed Powder. The subsequent media coverage of Salva's criminal history, and speculation as to why Disney would hire a convicted sex offender, ensured that Salva would not make another film until 1999's Rites of Passage.

Salva wrote and directed the horror film Jeepers Creepers (2001) and its sequel Jeepers Creepers II (2003).

In 2006, he directed Peaceful Warrior,[2] which opened up to mixed reviews. In 2011, Salva filmed Rosewood Lane, a thriller starring Rose McGowan and Ray Wise.[3]

In 2013, it was announced that Victor Salva will retire from directing in 2014.[citation needed]

Filmography

References

  1. ^ a b "California Registered Sex Offender Profile – Victor Salva". Megan's Law – California Sex Offender Registry. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
  2. ^ a b c d e Patrick Goldstein. "Victor Salva's horror stories". Los Angeles Times.
  3. ^ "Fear the Paperboy(!) on Rosewood Lane".

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