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DAN SCHAEFER - Bio

Dan Schaefer makes his directorial narrative debut with Highland Home – a music video and film short based on an original song by Kurt Rosenberg, for which Schaefer also created the film’s story.

Beginning in 2006, the award-winning filmmaker embarked on a career directing documentaries that includes:

Mania, Schaefer’s popular sports documentary on the 37 year history of the Portland Trailblazers marked the first time a camera crew was given unrestricted access to the beloved team, along with such unknown stories as how the legendary Harry Glickman fulfilled his dream of becoming a professional sports team owner. Mania had its world premiere at the Portland International Film Festival and was seen by more than 1.5 million viewers on the Comcast Sports Network.

Filmed in the U.S. and Poland, Schaefer’s Figaro! Living in the Moment of a Character is the story of how two music schools (the Louisville School of Music and the Szymanowski Academy of Music) were brought together by Amadeus Mozart's comic opera—despite a separation of thousands of miles and languages.

Schaefer’s second sports doc, Kings of the Road: the Story of the Portland Buckaroos, revisited the thrilling meteoric rise and eventual demise of the original Western hockey league’s winningest team. The film premiered on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s critically-acclaimed Oregon Lens series.

And not the least, Schaefer’s acclaimed 29-minute documentary, House by the Side of the Road, was based on the stories of six generations of the Abbott family, whose Illinois Sesquicentennial farm was connected to the Underground Railroad to help move dozens of slaves to freedom before the Civil War. Among other accolades, the short film won the distinguished Best in Show at the 2012 Ohio State Fair and the Silver Eddy from the Cedar Rapids Independent film Festival. The film was also selected by Oregon Public Broadcasting for its Oregon Lens series.