Greg Kwedar is a renowned Academy Award-nominated filmmaker, whose sophomore film, Sing Sing, took over eight years to complete. As both director and co-writer, he premiered the film at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival, where it won the 2024 SXSW Festival Audience Award. Subsequently, A24 acquired and theatrically released the critically acclaimed film, garnering three Academy Award nominations, including Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as three BAFTA nominations, five Critics Choice Award nominations, including Best Picture, and three Independent Spirit Awards nominations.
Sing Sing was also named one of the AFI and National Board of Review Top 10 Films of the Year, winning the National Board of Review Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Gotham Awards for Best Lead Performance and Best Supporting Performance.
Kwedar made his feature directorial debut with Transpecos, which premiered in competition at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival, winning the Audience Award. He co-wrote and produced Jockey, which premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, where it won the Special Jury Award for Best Actor (Clifton Collins Jr.). The film also won the Audience Award at the AFI Film Festival and was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics for theatrical release.
Jockey was later nominated for an Indie Spirit Award for Best Male Lead and the John Cassavetes Award, and was one of the National Board of Review Top 10 Independent Film of 2021. Kwedar also produced Rising from Ashes, Running with Beto (Winner: SXSW Audience Award 2019),and was co-producer on Ghost Fleet (Telluride & TIFF, 2018).
Recently, Greg served as co-writer and executive producer on Clint Bentley's sophomore feature Train Dreams, adapted from the Pulitzer Prize finalist novella Train Dreams by Denis Johnson. The film debuted at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, where it was acquired by Netflix.
Kwedar and his producing partner Clint Bentley recently launched a production company called Ethos to develop their original work and to champion artists under the innovative and equitable financing model they pioneered.
Throughout his career, Kwedar has spoken to thousands of students across the country and sat on panels about his work at SXSW, Sundance, UNESCO, the United Nations, and more.
