Dean Fleischer-Camp

Producer, Writer, Director

Birthdate: February 28, 1984 (42 Years Old)

Birthplace: Henrico County, Virginia

Dean Fleischer Camp is primarily an stop-motion animation/live-action filmmaker best known for his short films and his Oscar-nominated feature version of the charming Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021), originally co-created with now ex-wife Jenny Slate and which he directed, co-wrote (with Slate and Nick Paley, and story writer Elisabeth Holm), produced, voiced and co-edited (with Paley), featuring the voices of Rosa Salazar, Thomas Mann, Leslie Stahl and Isabella Rossellini and which grossed $7 million for distributors A24/Universal Pictures International/Focus Features, and was Oscar-nominated for Best Animated Feature.

Camp, despite his notable work in the animation space (which includes several non-Marcel short films), made his feature film debut as director of the experimental documentary, Fraud (2016), which re-edits found footage on YouTube, produced by Riel Roch-Decter Sebastian Pardo, executive produced by David Gordon Green, Jody Hill and Danny McBride, and premiered at HotDocs documentary festival in Toronto.

Camp jumped from the success of the Marcel feature to the director’s chair of Lilo & Stitch (2025), Disney’s highly anticipated, $150 million live-action/animated remake of the 2002 animated original, with its director-writer Chris Sanders returning as the voice of Stitch, with Maia Kealoha as Lilo, and supporting turns by Billy Magnussen, Tia Carrere, Courtney B. Vance and Zach Galifianakis.

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Dean Fleischer Camp was born and raised by his parents in the outlying Richmond, Virginia area of Henrico County. Camp has one sibling named Lee, a comedian, writer, podcaster and journalist. Camp attended and graduated from Douglas S. Freeman High School. Camp then studied filmmaking and graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Camp was married to actor Jenny Slate from 2012 to 2016.

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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Director (2022)

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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
2022
Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
A cash-strapped documentary maker decides to make his newest documentary about a mollusk shell he finds living in his Airbnb with his friends.
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Facts About Dean Fleischer-Camp

Creative Marriage: Dean Fleischer Camp blended marriage and creative filmmaking with wife/actor Jenny Slate, with whom he collaborated on several short films, a book, and the feature version of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. The couple was married from 2012 to 2016, but continued to work together.

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