Rolfe Kanefsky

Birthday: 5 March 1969, New York, USA

Rolfe Kanefsky grew up in the suburbs of New York and attended Hampshire college where he studied Film. He began writing stories at a young age after his childhood dream of becoming a clown took the b ...Show More

Rolfe Kanefsky grew up in the suburbs of New York and attended Hampshire college where he studied Film. He began writing stories at a young age after his childhood dream of becoming a clown took the backseat to his interest in film. He has thus far written and directed 22 feature films and authored another 38 produced screenplays over the last 25 years. The cult flick "There's Nothing Out There" was his debut at the age of twenty. Since then, Rolfe has continued to work in the horror genre with "The Hazing" starring Brad Dourif and Tiffany Shepis, "Jacqueline Hyde", "Corpses", and "Nightmare Man". He was the winner of two Best Director awards for his horror flick, "Nightmare Man" at the Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy and The Supernatural Film Festival in Las Vegas & at the I.F.F.Y.N.T.X. Festival in Texas before the film went on to be picked up by After Dark and Lions Gate as one of the "8 Films To Die For: Horrorfest 2007.Branching out into other genres, Rolfe wrote "Blonde & Blonder", a comedy with Pamela Anderson and Denise Richards, the western "Doc Holliday's Revenge" starring Tom Berenger, thrillers such as "Tomorrow By Midnight" starring Carol Kane and Alexis Arquette and "1 In The Gun" with Steven Bauer and Robert Davi. Recent family fare including "A Tiger's Tail", "Timber; The Treasure Dog", and "Jimmy's Jungle", the period crime story "Bonnie & Clyde: Justified", the musical "Adventures Into The Woods" and the thriller "Killer Photo" starring Annalynne McCord.With 50 produced credits, Rolfe is a very active filmmaker/writer who continues to work in almost every genre in the business. Currently repped by Lloyd D. Robertson of Suite-A Management and Stephen James. Hide