---
name: "Dean Fleischer Camp"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dean-fleischer-camp"
fi1m_id: "dean-fleischer-camp"
imdb_id: "nm3255797"
tmdb_id: 1540069
wikidata_id: "Q26828305"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "28 February 1982"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-30T22:36:49.555236+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Dean Fleischer Camp

## Identity

Dean Fleischer Camp

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dean-fleischer-camp
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dean-fleischer-camp
- **IMDb ID:** nm3255797
- **TMDB ID:** 1540069
- **Wikidata ID:** Q26828305
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Fleischer_Camp, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26828305, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3255797/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1540069

Director. Born 28 February 1982 in Richmond, Virginia, U.S..

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 28 February 1982, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
- **Active:** 2022–present
- **Also known as:** دين فليشر كامب
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 directing, 1 other
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 68, as director, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Fleischer_Camp, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26828305, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3255797/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1540069

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Lilo & Stitch*](https://film.one/film/lilo-and-stitch-2025.md) (58)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Dean Fleischer Camp is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and editor. He created the *Marcel the Shell with Shoes On* short films with Jenny Slate and directed the 2021 feature film adaptation, for which he also served as co-writer, editor and actor (as "Dean"). He directed the 2025 live-action remake of *Lilo & Stitch*.

Fleischer Camp graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. He previously directed the 2016 collage film *Fraud*. For *Marcel the Shell with Shoes On*, he and co-writer Nick Paley received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Editing, and he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

He was married to Jenny Slate from 2012 to 2016; the pair collaborated on the *Marcel the Shell with Shoes On* shorts, books and feature film.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com, deadline.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Directed (2) — the average rests on these

- *Lilo & Stitch* (2025), Fi1m 58, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/lilo-and-stitch-2025.md)
- *Marcel the Shell with Shoes On* (2022), Fi1m 77, as Dean — [page](https://film.one/film/marcel-the-shell-with-shoes-on.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Friendship* (2025), Fi1m 73, Thanks — [page](https://film.one/film/friendship.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Lilo & Stitch* (2025), Director — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/lilo-and-stitch-2025.md)
- *Friendship* (2025), Thanks — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/friendship.md)
- *Marcel the Shell with Shoes On* (2022), as Dean · Director, Producer, Editor, Screenplay, Story, Characters — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/marcel-the-shell-with-shoes-on.md)
- *The Bible: The Sacrifice of Isaac* (2019), Director, Writer
- *David: Story of David* (2016), series, Director, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
- *David* (2016), Director
- *Fraud* (2016), Director, Producer
- *Rubberhead* (2014), Director
- *Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Three* (2014), as Dean · Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
- *Catherine* (2014), Editor, Director, Screenplay
- *Smile* (2012), Director of Photography, Director
- *Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Two* (2011), as Dean · Writer, Director, Producer, Editor
- *Self Esteem* (2011), Director, Writer
- *Marcel the Shell with Shoes On* (2010), as Dean · Director, Editor, Producer, Writer
- *Untitled Dean Fleischer Camp Film*, Director, Writer, Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2023: Best Animated Feature (nominated), for *Marcel the Shell with Shoes On*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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