Eric Bross is an American film director. Raised in West Caldwell, New Jersey, he was recognized at the New Jersey Young Filmmakers Festival at 16 and later studied film at Montclair State University.
Early life and education
Eric Bross was born in 1964 in Newark, New Jersey, and raised in West Caldwell, New Jersey.
At the age of 13, Bross received a Super 8 camera as a Christmas gift, and by age 16, he had won the top award at the New Jersey Young Filmmakers Festival.
He studied film at Montclair State University, where in 1988 he met screenwriter
Tom Cudworth during a class on director
Woody Allen.
Career
Bross made his feature directorial debut with the independent film
Ten Benny (1998), which he co-wrote with Cudworth. The coming-of-age story, set along Bloomfield Avenue in New Jersey, follows a young shoe salesman who becomes entangled with mob loans and betrayal among friends.
The film premiered at festivals in 1995 under the title
Nothing to Lose and was praised for its bravura style and
Adrien Brody's performance.
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