His work as producer/director includes The Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly Not for Sale (2008) which aired on HBO, BBC, and Zdf/ARTE in Germany and France.
Jeff Stimmel has directed several short films, both narrative and non-narrative, including “Somebody Else’s Dream”, “Wait, Ernesto!” “Somebody Else’s Movie”, and the short narrative "After The World" which was an official selection to the Vermont International Film Festival in 2008.
[4] In 2001, Stimmel won a PEER Award as producer for The State Of The Artist.
Stimmel is president of Divided Eye Films, an independent production company founded in 2005.
However, his notorious behavior, his chemical excesses, and his fierce independence all led to his diminished standing in the art world.