Alan Shapiro

Alan Shapiro was making movies at the age of 12.

At New York University Film School, his first student production won his much acclaim and won the award for Best Student Film at Cannes. It was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC and helped him raise enough grant money to finance a second short, Meeting Halfway.

Warner Brothers then offered Shapiro a summertime apprenticeship and his career was off the ground.

A few TV movies later, Shapiro made The Crush, which marked the feature film debut of his young discovery, Alicia Silverstone.

More recently he worked on Flipper for Universal Pictures with Paul Hogan and Elijah Wood.