BRYAN WIZEMANN Design Film Art Contact	FILM PROJECTS Film Production Company
	FILM BIOGRAPHY Film & Art Resume pdf
	Bryan Wizemann is an award winning screenwriter, producer and director of film and television. His short film work includes Button Soup (Johnson Museum | Cinema Village NY), The Morning Sun (Rooftop Films | IFC), the television pilot Cooklyn (in development with Ithaka productions), and Film Makes Us Happy, which documents the last fight he will ever have with his wife about making films (Hamptons Int’l Film Festival | IFF Boston). His experimental feature film Sense screened in the IFFM at the Angelika Film Centre. His feature film Losing Ground was adapted from his critically acclaimed New York stage play and features the original cast. It screened at the Cinequest, CineVegas, and Santa Fe film festivals, 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 Barbara DeFina (You Can Count on Me | Goodfellas), will feature Denis O’Hare (Michael Clayton) and Jayne Atkinson (The Village) and is slated for a fall ’08 production. Bryan Wizemann is the author of a collection of dramatic monologues, two stage plays, and seven screenplays. He is currently the director and founder of Ballast Films, an independent film production company in Brooklyn, New York. More information on film and television projects can be found at www.ballastfilms.com.
	FILM PRODUCTIONS
	Film Makes Us Happy HD, color, 12min. 20sec. Direction | Editing | Sound -International Film Festival of Boston, Boston, MA 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
	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 Looking For A Sky Blue Hat - Long Form Monologue 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