Jeff Polman was born in Hartford, CT in 1954, grew up in Longmeadow, MA and graduated from the BDIC program at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He worked for the Advocate Newspapers and Boston Phoenix before becoming Arts Editor for the Vermont Vanguard Press in Burlington, VT for its first five years.
Having enjoyed his time as a student filmmaker, he moved to Los Angeles in 1982 to pursue screenwriting. He has written over 20 scripts and has had two low-budget thrillers produced, Grave Secrets (1989) and Benefit of the Doubt (1993), a Miramax release which starred Donald Sutherland and Amy Irving.
RED JACARANDAS, to be released in January of, 2022, is a unique trio of "weird tales" about Los Angeles, two original screenplays wrapped around a short novel. Having grown up in New England watching countless scary movies as a youth, his new project is a return to his supernatural thriller roots.
