Background
He directed Cats & Dogs, Son of the Mask, and Back in Time.
He directed Cats & Dogs, Son of the Mask, and Back in Time.
University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Harvard University; University of Southern California.
He also directed some of the episodes of Out of Jimmy"s Head from 2007 to 2008. Guterman went back to school after working in animation and received a Master"s degree in Film from the University of Southern California. Guterman was raised in Montreal and Toronto, where he made his first short films in grade eight.
After high school, Guterman went to the United States to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then Harvard University, where he received a physics degree.
Guterman would return to Canada every summer to study animation at Sheridan College of Artist He created illustrations for the Harvard Lampoon.
His interest in film-making was renewed after completing a 15-minute documentary for one of his courses at Harvard. After university, he moved to Los Angeles and worked on computer graphics and as a script reader for Columbia Pictures.
While in Los Angeles, Guterman attended University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts to expand his film knowledge.
While there, he sold two feature-length scripts to major film studios and co-wrote a script for the Tales from the Crypt series. The latter caught the attention of Robert Zemeckis and Home Box Office. Guterman took his first role as director when he worked on a video game based on the Goosebumps series for DreamWorks Interactive after Steven Spielberg saw his short "". He was then offered to direct several sequences for the computer-animated film, Antz (1998) for DreamWorks Animation.
In the early 2000s Guterman made his feature film directorial debut with Warner Brothers" Cats & Dogs (2001), which earned $201 million in worldwide box office revenue, followed by Son of the Mask (2005).
He is of, starring Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau, and directed by Atom Egoyan.