Los Angeles
In 1992, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his career in film and television. Soon thereafter he began scoring feature films, most notably Sweethearts (1997) with Janeane Garofalo, and Jack Frost (1996), a horror comedy film. He wrote the music to 12 feature films for Mystique Films, and 13 feature film Scores for Indigo Films.
Schurtz worked with Jerry Seinfeld, on his only NBC television special, Oprah Winfrey on her ABC special (winning a Telly Award for the score), the Brady Bunch on a CBS special, Little Richard and Billy Preston in an ABC special, Robby Krieger (The Doors) on the authorized Harley-Davidson history. His television work led to scoring series for Showtime: Compromising Situations (18 episodes) and Hot Springs Hotel (14 episodes).
In 1996, began a post-production company and created final mixed audio tracks for broadcast and theatrical distribution (this comprises creating sound effects, backgrounds and foley effects, and combining these together into final mix). This company worked on 200 projects: feature films, television programs, commercials and interactive.
As Executive Film Producer, Schurtz produced Cow Camp for Kids, an award winning children's video and the feature film Speedway (aka the Last Road), starring Julie Strain.
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