AUTOMAT PICTURES

Automat Pictures, Schwarz's production company, began in 1998 when he was hired by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment to co-produce, shoot and edit a documentary about Gus Van Sant's controversial remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Psycho Path was Schwarz's first foray into the burgeoning world of DVD bonus features, also known as value added material (VAM). Schwarz soon became one of the leading producers in the field of studio EPKs (electronic press kit), Blu-ray and DVD bonus features, creating content for over 100 major DVD and Blu-ray studio releases. Schwarz collaborated with a wide range of notable filmmakers including Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Jonathan Demme, John Waters, Ron Howard, Wes Craven, Michael Bay, Albert & Allen Hughes, Rob Reiner, Craig Zadan & Neil Meron, Joe Dante, Jon Favreau, Barry Sonnenfeld, Adam Shankman, Paul Verhoeven, John Carpenter, Chris Columbus, F. Gary Gray, Roger Corman, Roland Emmerich, Nora Ephron, Wim Wenders, Sidney Lumet, and the Coen..

Also known as: AUTOMAT PICTURES, INC.