Justin Lerner
Directing
Biography
Justin Lerner (born 19 May, 1980; Pennsylvania) is an American filmmaker. He is the son of two developmental psychologists, one Jewish and one Catholic, who compromised by sending him to Quaker school in Pennsylvania until the age of eleven. After getting his BA in Theatre Arts at Cornell University, he moved to Galicia, Spain, and then returned the following year to get an MFA in Directing at UCLA's graduate film school. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California.
Known For
An immature, newly unemployed comic must navigate the murky waters of adulthood after her fling with a graduate student results in an unplanned pregnancy.
Obvious Child
On the heels of booking a life-changing motion picture, a film director drives away his girlfriend and aggressively re-enters the LA dating scene.
Newly Single
When Davis Green's alluring young cousin Alexis appears on his doorstep one night, he discovers that a side of his family has been kept secret from him. Against his father’s wishes, Davis travels to rural, upstate New York to meet his other cousins.
The Automatic Hate
A young man with Down Syndrome romantically pursues a small town single mom who is still mixed up with her volatile ex-boyfriend.
Girlfriend
After spending a year in a juvenile center for beating up his stepfather, Todd Turnbull returns to his backwoods hometown a repentant, deeply religious boy. When he finds his best friend, Michael, withering away without any medical attention due to the family's spiritual beliefs, Todd must make a choice: let his friend die; or break his oath of non-violence and take matters into his own hands.
The Replacement Child
After her sister goes missing, Sarita, a working-class girl from Guatemala City, travels to the seaside town of Puerto Barrios to infiltrate a group of young gang members. As she risks her life to join the gang, Sarita becomes involved with her sister’s dangerous ex-boyfriend and gets closer to learning what happened to her sister.
Cadejo Blanco
When 17 year-old Axel finds out his girlfriend is pregnant, he tries to build a better future for them by accepting a dangerous "job" to make some extra money.
Trópico
Anna's imagination becomes her reality when her boyfriend suddenly and inexplicably departs. ECHOSTOP is her day-long struggle to escape the memory of him.
Echostop
Roy seeks a partner with whom to play air-hockey; a rooftop bucket of water may provide an answer....
Solo
Chronically indecisive Maggie works a tedious job in a sleepy college town. She believes that she must choose between Richard, whom she loves, and Luke, whom she enjoys sleeping with, only to find that neither of them is the source of her unhappiness or her intense, inexplicable pains during sex.