Sandy Collora

Sandy Collora was born in Brooklyn, New York. After freelance assignments in comic books and gaming magazines, he moved to Los Angeles at age 17 to pursue his dreams in Hollywood. In 1988, after Collora landed a job at Stan Winston Studio on Leviathan, he became known as a creature designer and sculptor. Collora spent the next decade in concept design, sculpting, storyboarding, and art direction. He designed the logo for Jurassic Park, and his designs can be seen in Men in Black, Dogma, The Arrival, The Crow, and Predator 2.

He made his directorial debut in 1999 with the short film Solomon Bernstein's Bathroom. In 1999, he also founded his toy development studio and independent production company, Montauk Films. Collora attracted attention with his 2003 short film Batman: Dead End, intended to act as a director's demonstration reel. After premiering the film at San Diego Comic-Con, it became an internet sensation and was downloaded more than 600,000 times in the first week. Director Kevin Smith called it "possibly the truest, best Batman movie ever made". Collora filmed a similar project, 2004's World's Finest, with much of the same cast and crew. In 2010, Collora released his first feature film, Hunter Prey. In 2015, Collora said he was working on a new film, Shallow Water, and sought to raise $550,000 via Kickstarter, making it the largest campaign of its type in the horror category. Shallow Water was released in 2017, and a new project, titled The Delray Misunderstood: The Legend of Big Lenny, was released in 2018.