Bryan Wizemann is a multifaceted creative force, operating as an independent writer, producer, editor, and director of film, based in Brooklyn, New York. His body of work has been showcased internationally at prestigious film festivals and museums, as well as on various platforms such as IFC, Wholphin, Netflix, Amazon, SundanceNow, iTunes, FilmStruck, FilmBuff, and Fandor.
Wizemann's latest feature, YOU MEAN EVERYTHING TO ME, garnered recognition with the Rooftop Films and Brigade Festival Publicity grant and acceptance into the Sundance Institute Film Music and Sound Design Lab. His feature, ABOUT SUNNY, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize at the IFF Boston, with Lauren Ambrose earning a nomination for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead. The screenplay was also a top-three winner of the Slamdance Feature Screenplay Competition. Wizemann's microbudget feature, LOSING GROUND, was adapted from his critically acclaimed New York stage play, featuring the original cast, and premiered at Cinequest with distribution by FilmBuff. His early experimental 16mm feature, SENSE, was programmed at the Johnson Museum of Art and the Angelika Film Centre.
Wizemann's short film work encompasses his college thesis 16mm film, BUTTON SOUP, as well as THE MORNING SUN, which was showcased at Rooftop and IFC Media Lab. He has also worked on the television series COOKLYN for BRIC arts media and FILM MAKES US HAPPY, a documentary that chronicles his final disagreement with his wife about making films, which was screened at DocPoint Helsinki, IFFB, Rooftop, Hamptons, and Wholphin. His pilot for THE PRINCE OF NIGERIA and feature screenplays for EACH COMING NIGHT and THE WEAKEST FISH are currently in development.
Wizemann has honed his skills in dramatic writing and directing through studies with esteemed professionals such as Tom Noonan, Lee Breuer, Forest Stone, Adrienne Weiss, and DnA. He has also written for National Geographic and Radical Media, and his interviews have been published in Filmmaker Magazine, WSWS, Rooftop Films, and on Filmwax Radio, Tribute Canada, and BRIC. As a guest artist and lecturer, Wizemann has spoken at Cornell University, Pratt Institute, The New School, and UNLV, and has served as a juror for the Pratt Film/Video Program and the Heermans-McCalmon Dramatic Writing Panel. He holds a degree from Cornell University and was part of the MFA program at Hunter College.
