Biography
Greg Segal is a writer, director, and producer based in New York and Asia. He frequently works as an independent producer and legal counsel for production companies, writers, directors, and actors, drawing on his experience as a practicing attorney.
His upcoming film is a remake of the award-winning Italian movie Perfect Strangers, which will be produced entirely in the Philippines. This marks Greg’s third production in the Philippines, and while his previous directorial works included partial Tagalog dialogue, this will be his first film shot entirely in Tagalog.
Greg wrote and directed the feature film The Expat, starring Lev Gorn, Mon Confiado, Lovely Abella, and Leo J. Martinez, filmed entirely in the Philippines. As of September 2019, the film was in post-production.
He also co-wrote and directed the short film Chasing Lights, also shot entirely in the Philippines and in post-production as of September 2019. The cast includes Alexis Navarro, Matthias Rhoads, and frequent collaborators Andrew Gan and moto-cross expert Chris Leonardo.
Both Chasing Lights and The Expat were produced in partnership with Spring Fairy Entertainment, overseen by Charlotte Dianco.
Greg previously held a consulting role with Entertainment 7, a sales agency, and its sister production company A Plus Productions. He continues to advise sales companies and distributors on the sale and licensing of international rights for feature films and television shows.
In 2010, Greg completed production on Should've Been Romeo, a family comedy directed by Marc Bennett, featuring Ed Asner, Paul Ben Victor, Carol Kane, Michael Rappaport, Evan Handler, Mary McCormack, Nichole Hiltz, and Costas Mandylor.
He co-produced Sinners & Saints, an action film by Will Kaufman starring Johnny Strong, Tom Berenger, Method Man, Sean Patrick Flannery, Kevin Phillips, Costas Mandylor, UFC Champion Bas Rutten, and Jurgen Prochnow.
Greg produced My Brother (Codeblack/Universal), directed by Academy Award nominee Anthony Lover and winner of the HBO American Black Film Festival Grand Jury Prize. The film stars Vanessa Williams, Nashawn Kearse, Tatum O'Neal, Christopher Scott, and Fredro Starr, and has received 26 awards and honors, making it one of the most acclaimed films targeting African American audiences since The Color Purple.
He also served as a production executive on David Wain's The Ten, which features Jessica Alba, Paul Rudd, Winona Ryder, Famke Janssen, Gretchen Mol, Oliver Platt, Ron Silver, Liev Schreiber, Rob Corddry, Justin Theroux, and Adam Brody. The film was released theatrically by ThinkFilm in summer 2007.
Other projects include Jeff Roenning’s horror-comedy Hot Baby, a co-production with Apple starring Adam Scarimbolo, Emily Grace, and Noah Fleiss. Greg co-executive produced Harold, directed by T. Sean Shannon, starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Nicki Blonski, Ally Sheedy, Rachel Dratch, and Spencer Breslin in the title role.
His fifth feature, Scott Dacko's The Insurgents (Peace Arch), starring John Shea, Henry Simmons, Michael Mosley, Juliette Marquis, and Mary Stuart Masterson, premiered at the Oldenburg Film Festival in Germany in September 2006. It won the Audience Award for Best Picture at its festival debut and toured the U.S. festival circuit, beginning with a Best Screenplay award at the Palm Beach International Film Festival.
Other films he produced include Harsh Beauty, a documentary by Alessandra Zeka about India’s eunuchs, which was funded by NYFA, Sundance/Soros-Open Society, and the New York State Council on the Arts, and is available on DVD from Frameline. He also produced Take the Bridge, a dramatic feature directed by Sundance veteran Sergio Castilla, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2007.
Greg founded the Slamdance Horror Script Competition Film Slate, launched in 2007, which selects the winning horror script from Slamdance’s popular script competition each year to produce a film for premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival.
He also founded and ran the NYC PictureStart Film Festival, a New York City short film festival, for eight years.
Greg has lectured on film production and entertainment law at the New York Film Academy and the School of Visual Arts in New York. Prior to entering the entertainment industry in late 2003, he practiced law with firms such as Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Ernst & Young, and Deloitte & Touche. In addition to entertainment law, Greg is an expert in tax law and holds an MBA and CPA license.
