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Jeffrey Scott Collins is a writer/director/producer who just completed his feature film debut, "Poor Greg Drowning", a grounded comedy in the vein of "I Love You, Man", which he wrote, directed, and produced. The film has screened at 26 festivals around the world and thirteen awards including Best Feature, Best Comedy, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress. The film will be distributed by Comedy Dynamics and released in June 2020. Jeff is currently casting his next feature film, "Above the Line," a grounded dark heist ensemble comedy that is a throwback to the dark crime comedies of the 90s, starring Cedric the Entertainer, Thomas Middleditch, Taryn Manning, and Nicola Peltz. Jeff co-wrote the feature with Jono Matt, and will also be directing and producing the film. Prior to these feature projects, Jeff wrote, directed, produced, and edited two thirty-minute short films entitled, "10 Years Later", and, "Let It Bleed". "10 Years Later", a female driven action thrilled in the vein of the Jason Bourne movies, is being adapted into a TV series called, "One World". Jeff began his film and TV career in finance, before transitioning into creative services at HBO. He then worked under the the tutelage of three writer/directors on their features as a Director's Assistant, including John Hamburg on "Why Him?", Luke Greenfield on "Let's Be Cops", and Victor Levin on "5 to 7". Jeff ran Luke's development company, WideAwake, and also did development for John's Particular Pictures. Jeff then worked in feature development at Hasbro/Allspark Studios, and now runs Film & TV for Jake Stein's new company, Scondo Productions, where he is developing and producing numerous film and TV projects. Raised in upstate New York, Jeff graduated from Boston College, and has taken film classes at NYU. He also completed the Summer Film Institute at UCLA when he made the move out to Los Angeles, where he currently resides.