BRYAN WIZEMANN Film Design Art Contact	FILM PROJECTS Film Production Company
	FILM BIOGRAPHY Film & Art Resume pdf
	Bryan Wizemann is an award winning writer and director of film. His short film work includes Button Soup (Johnson Museum, Cinema Village NY), The Morning Sun (Rooftop Films, IFC), the television pilot Cooklyn, and Film Makes Us Happy, which documents the last fight he will ever have with his wife about making films (Hamptons, IFF Boston, Rooftop Films, Wholphin). His feature film Losing Ground (Cinequest, CineVegas, Santa Fe) was adapted from his critically acclaimed New York stage play and features the original cast. It was called “fascinating filmmaking that gets to the core of humanity” by Film Threat and is available from Netflix. His screenplay An Entire Body was recently selected as one of the top three winners of the 2007 Slamdance Feature Screenplay Competition. It is being produced by Michael Ryan (Junebug, Choke), and will feature Denis O’Hare (Michael Clayton) and Jayne Atkinson (The Village). Humor Me, a romantic comedy written by Andrew Semans and Bryan Wizemann, was recently optioned out of the IFP Independent Film Week by producers Jamin O'Brien (Handsome Harry) and Amy Slotnick (Frida, Serendipity) and is currently in development. Bryan is currently the director of Ballast Films, an independent film production company in Brooklyn, New York.
	FILM PRODUCTIONS
	Film Makes Us Happy HD, color, 12min. 20sec. Direction | Editing | Sound -Featured film on the Wholphin DVD website, 2009 -International Film Festival of Boston, Boston, MA 2008 -Rooftop Films, Best of Summer Shorts, Brooklyn NY August 2008 -Hamptons International Film Festival, East Hampton, NY 2007 -80 Minutes of Shorts, New York NY 2007
	Cooklyn HD, color, 22min. Conception | Direction -Creation of the television pilot, Brooklyn NY 2006
	An Entire Body 2hrs. Writing | Direction (in development) -Honored as one of the top three winners of the 2007 Slamdance Feature Screenplay Competition.
	The Morning Sun HD, color, 5min. 30sec. Writing | Direction -Rooftop Films, Brooklyn NY August 2007 -Independent Film Channel, Fall 2006 -Winner IFC Media Lab Best of July 2006
	Losing Ground DVCam, color, 1hr. 30min. Writing | Production | Direction -Santa Fe Film Festival, Santa Fe, NM 2005 -CineVegas Film Festival, Las Vegas, NV 2005 -Cinequest Film Festival, San Jose, CA 2005
	The Weakest Fish 2hrs. Writing | Direction (in development)
	Sense 16mm, color, 1hr. 25min. Writing | Direction | Editing -IFFM, Angelika Film Center, New York, NY 1998
	Button Soup 16mm, b&w sepia, 14min. Writing | Direction | Editing -Cinema Village Theater, New York City, NY 1996 -Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY 1996
	AUTHORSHIP
	Humor Me – Feature Length Screenplay (IFP Emerging Narratives | Optioned to Worldview Entertainment) The Odyssey – Feature Length Screenplay An Entire Body – Feature Length Screenplay (One of the top three winners of the 2007 Slamdance Feature Screenplay Competition) Losing Ground – Full Length Stage Play & Screenplay Adaptation The Weakest Fish – Feature Length Screenplay Sense – Feature Length Screenplay Daylight – Full Length Radio Play Genuine Bricks – Feature Length Screenplay
	BIBLIOGRAPHY
	Miller, Prairie, "Losing Ground: Microcosm Of A Greed Culture", WBAI Magazine, April 2006 Faust, M., "Dark of the Soul: Losing Ground", Art Voice, April 2006 Carr, Jay, "Losing Ground", AM New York, April 2006 Henderson, Odie, "Flick Knows When To Hold ‘Em", Cinemaniac’s Corner, July 2005 Gillan, Jeff, Televised Interview for Las Vegas One, June 2005 Gobell, Andy, Televised Interview for Las Vegas Fox 5 News, June 2005 Whitely, Joan, "Losing Ground: Close to Home", Las Vegas Review Journal, June 2005 Aronsky, Rory, "Losing Ground", Film Threat, June 2005 Childress, Eric, "Losing Ground Review", eFilmCritic.com, May 2005 Childress, Eric, "Interview with Bryan Wizemann", eFilmCritic.com, May 2005 Harvey, Dennis, "Losing Ground", Variety, March 2005