Biographie
Greg Segal is a writer/director and producer, based out of New York and Asia. He has also worked frequently as an independent producer, legal counsel to production companies (he is also a practicing attorney), writers, directors and actors.
Greg's next film is a remake of the award winning Italian film, Perfect Strangers, to be produced entirely in the Philippines. It is Greg's third production in the Philippines and while his other films as a director were partially in Tagolog, this is the first one entirely in Tagolog.
Greg wrote and directed the feature film, The Expat, starring Lev Gorn, Mon Confiado, Lovely Abella and Leo J. Martinez, which was filmed entirely in the Philippines. The film is as of September 2019 in post-production.
Greg additionally co-wrote and directed Chasing Lights, a short film also shot entirely in the Philippines. It is also in post-production as of September 2019 i. It stars Alexis Navarro and Matthias Rhoads, and co-stars frequent collaborators, Andrew Gan and moto-cross guru Chris Leonardo.
Both Chasing Lights and The Expat were produced in conjunction with Spring Fairy Entertainment overseen by Charlotte Dianco.
Greg formerly maintained a consulting position with Entertainment 7, a sales agent, and its sister production entity, A Plus Productions. He continues to consult with sales companies and distributors with respect to the sale and licensing of international rights of feature motion pictures and television shows.
In 2010, Greg wrapped production on Should've Been Romeo, a family comedy directed by Marc Bennett, and starring Ed Asner, Paul Ben Victor, Carol Kane, Michael Rappaport, Evan Handler, Mary McCormack, Nichole Hiltz and Costas Mandylor.
Greg co-produced Sinners & Saints, Will Kaufman's hard-driven action pic, which stars Johnny Strong, Tom Berenger, Method Man, Sean Patrick Flannery, Kevin Phillips, Costas Mandylor, UFC Champ Bas Rutten and Jurgen Prochnow.
Greg is the producer of HBO American Black Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner, Acadamy Award nominee Anthony Lover's My Brother (Codeblack/Universal), starring Vanessa Williams, Nashawn Kearse, Tatum O'Neal, Christopher Scott and Fredro Starr. A winner of 26 awards and honors to date, My Brother is one of the most honored films targeting African American audiences since The Color Purple.
Additionally, he served as a production executive on David Wain's The Ten, which stars Jessica Alba, Paul Rudd, Winona Ryder, Famke Jansen, Gretchen Mol, Oliver Platt, Ron Silver, Liev Schrieber, Rob Corddry, Justin Theroux and Adam Brody, released theatrically by ThinkFilm in Summer, 2007.
Other productions include writer-director Jeff Roenning's horror-comedy Hot Baby, a co-production with Apple,which stars Adam Scarimbolo (Guide to Recognizing Your Saints), Emily Grace (What Alice Found), and Noah Fleiss (Brick). Greg also co-executive produced Harold, directed by T. Sean Shannon and 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), stars John Shea, Henry Simmons, Michael Mosley, Juliette Marquis and Mary Stuart Masterson premiered at the Oldenburg Film Festival Germany's answer to Sundance, in September, 2006, and took home the Audience Award for Best Picture in its festival premiere. The Insurgents had its tour through the U.S. festival circuit,beginning with its win for Best Screenplay at the Palm Beach Int't Film Festival.
Some other previously produced films include multiple fest (including Outfest and the Woodstock Film Festival) nominee Harsh Beauty, Alessandra Zeka's documentary about the eunuchs of India, which received funding from the NYFA, Sundance/Soros-Open Society, and the New York State Center for the Arts, available on DVD from Frameline; and Take the Bridge, a dramatic feature directed by Sundance veteran Sergio Castilla, which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2007.
Greg founded the Slamdance Horror Script Competition Film Slate, which, beginning in 2007, to take the winning horror script from Slamdance's wildly popular script competition and make a movie from it each year, to premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival.
In addition, Greg founded and ran for eight years the New York City short film festival,the NYC PictureStart Film Festival.
Greg has lectured on the topics of film production and entertainment law at the New York Film Academy, and at New York's School For Visual Arts. Until late 2003, and his entry into the entertainment business, Greg practiced law with firms such as Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Ernst & Young and Deloitte & Touche. In addition to entertainment law, Greg is an expert in the law of taxation and holds an MBA and CPA.
