Avery Schwartz

Avery "Ashkenazi" Schwartz was raised in 1930s Czechoslovakia under the guise of a travelling Japanese Komuso medicant monk, wearing a straw basket hat to maintain his ethnicity a secret from ever-present Nazism. He continues this facade until the end of WWII, moving to New York City by boat to work at the Bronx Zoo, where he explores his interest in animalia and zoology. While walking through Central Park, he meets Harvey Weinstein, who was on business-related travels. He introduces Avery to film and Hollywood, completely and utterly infatuated with the art upon viewing the film "Life of Pi (2012)." His newfound interest in cinema led him to pursue filmmaking through his first short film, "The Clique (2025)," a mystery thriller about a group of friends who camp out in the woods, but one of them is secretly a killer. Despite the movie being met with positive reviews, his dissatisfaction with the film and his terrible psychosis, he found himself in a depression and a juice-related craze, causing him to develop diabetes and die of blood sugar-related complications as of last week. His name has recently been added in the Jewish Hall of Fame in Tel Aviv, Israel, to remember his successes.