Steven Gorelick is Executive Director of the New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission, the state agency responsible for promoting film and television production in New Jersey. During his 39 year tenure with the Commission, New Jersey has hosted over 24,000 projects, enhancing the state economy by over $2.6 billion.
Mr. Gorelick has also written articles that have appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Daily News, the New York Post, The Bergen Record, Variety, The Forward, Classic Images, Travel Host, Agent and Manager, and New Jersey Municipalities. He authored You Must Remember This In 1996: A Casablanca History and Weekly Planner.
Mr. Gorelick’s screenwriting credits include The Movies Return, a documentary about the history of filmmaking in New Jersey, narrated by Celeste Holm and telecast on NJN. He wrote the television documentary Movie Matrimony, a humorous look at weddings as portrayed in Hollywood films, starring Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna, aired on American Movie Classics (AMC) and Romance Classics. He produced and co-edited New Jersey In The Movies, New Jersey Stars In The Movies, Sounds Like New Jersey, and Garden State Superstars, four short films created for the annual New Jersey Hall of Fame Induction Ceremonies at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. He co-created the video content for the New Jersey Hall of Fame Mobile Museum. And he scripted What If No One Answered The Call?, a nationally distributed video designed to promote emergency services recruitment among high school students. He also wrote and produced The New Land Of Oz, a promotional film touting the Military Ocean Terminal in Bayonne as a site for studio development and back lot production.
Mr. Gorelick has received many on-screen thank you credits for his assistance on a variety of movie and television productions, including Fox-Searchlight’s Garden State, starring Zach Braff and Natalie Portman, and Choke, starring Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston; Warner Bros.’ City By The Sea with Robert De Niro; Tri-Star Pictures’ Cadillac Records featuring Adrien Brody and Beyonce Knowles; Miramax Films’ Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, directed by Kevin Smith; Touchstone Pictures’ Cradle Will Rock starring Susan Sarandon and directed by Tim Robbins; Todd Solondz’ Happiness with Philip Seymour Hoffman; Michael Cuesta’s 12 and Holding starring Annabella Sciorra; the Artie Lange comedy Beer League; Comedy Central’s Strangers With Candy starring Amy Sedaris; Orion Classic’s Rain Without Thunder featuring Betty Buckley and Jeff Daniels; Columbia/Tri Star’s Fathers and Sons with Jeff Goldblum; Choice Films’ Junction, starring Michael O’Keefe and David Zayas; Favorite Son featuring Pablo Schreiber and Connor Paolo; Vidmark Entertainment’s A Fool and His Money starring Sandra Bullock; ShadowCatcher Entertainment’s Getting To Know You, starring Seymour Cassel and Mary McCormack; Painted Zebra Production’s 13th Child featuring Cliff Robertson and Lesley-Anne Down; Almi Pictures’ Silent Madness with Viveca Lindfors and Belinda Montgomery; Filmworld’s Doom Asylum; Shoreline Entertainment’s “Torture Chamber,” directed by Dante Tomaselli; the FOX telefilm Jersey Girls starring Jamie Gertz; the HBO telefilm Hysterical Blindness featuring Uma Thurman and Juliette Lewis; Nickelodeon’s The Adventures of Pete & Pete; the AMC special A Salute To New Jersey; and The Bond Force Legacy, an historical documentary from Bumble Bee Productions.
Mr. Gorelick is on the Advisory Committee of the New Jersey Hall of Fame, and is a trustee of the Thomas Edison Media Arts Consortium (sponsors of the Black Maria Film Festival and the New Jersey Young Filmmakers Festival). He serves on the selection committee of the Rutgers Jewish Film Festival and is a prescreening juror for the Asbury Park Music in Film Festival. He was an advisor to the Rutgers Film Coop, and served on the judging committee of the New Jersey Comedy Festival. He has served on the advisory board of the Fairleigh Dickinson undergraduate film program and the Audio, Video and Broadcasting Advisory Committee of the Newark Public School System. Mr. Gorelick has been a trustee of the Cape May New Jersey Film Festival; a member of the Board of Directors of the Two Rivers Film Festival; an advisor to the Entertainment Technology Conference at Mercer County College; and a pre-screening juror for the American Film Festival.
He has been interviewed on numerous television stations and networks, including ABC (“Nightline”), WCBS, WNBC, WNYC, WOR, WPIX, New Jersey Network, NJTV, News 12 NJ, Court TV, MeTV (WJLP), and many radio stations and networks, among them NPR, WCBS, WINS, WKXW (NJ 101.5), WBGO, and WCTC.
A lifelong resident of New Jersey, Mr. Gorelick grew up in Edison and graduated from Rutgers University. He currently resides in South Brunswick.