Bret Wood
General Info
Role:
FilmmakerRoles(_FilmMakerRoleID = 1, _FilmMakerRole = Director) / FilmmakerRoles(_FilmMakerRoleID = 4, _FilmMakerRole = Screenwriter) / FilmmakerRoles(_FilmMakerRoleID = 3, _FilmMakerRole = Editor)Website
illustratedfilms.comInfluences
(LITERARY): T.C. Boyle, William Faulkner, Graham Greene, William Lindsay Gresham, Horace McCoy, Patrick McGrath, Peter Matthiessen, Arthur Schnitzler, Nick Tosches, Nathanael West.Directors
(INFLUENCES): John Boorman, Tod Browning, Dwain Esper, John Ford, Bill Gunn, Michael Haneke, David Lean, F.W. Murnau, Erich von Stroheim, Orson WellesAwards
Director's Choice -- Best Feature -- 2006 Boston Underground Film Festival (Psychopathia Sexualis);
Best Director -- 2005 48 Hour Film Festival (Atlanta) (Judgement)
Best of Atlanta -- 2004 Atlanta Underground Film Festival (Hell's Highway)Festivals
Atlanta Film Festival
Atlanta Underground Film Festival
Boston Underground Film Festival
Brave New Works New Play Festival
Cucalorus Film Festival
Minneapolis-St. Paul Intl. Film Festival
USA Film Festival
Latest Blog Entries
- Mar 17, 2009 8:16 PM FAUST Rises Again
- Feb 23, 2009 12:52 AM IN MEMORIAM
- Feb 6, 2009 9:08 PM Bret Gets Kinky
- Jan 19, 2009 3:58 AM Worth the SACRIFICE
- Dec 29, 2008 3:31 AM And I do mean X-Mas
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About me:
.. Bret Wood is the writer/director of the award-winning feature film Psychopathia Sexualis (2006). His first feature was the documentary Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (2003), which was acclaimed as "unnerving and much fun" (The New York Times) and "endlessly fascinating" (Los Angeles Times). Filmmaker Magazine called it "A Lynchian view of the nightmarish underbelly of middle America." His previous documentaries include Kingdom of Shadows (1998, narrated by Rod Steiger). He has written several books on film, including Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Film (co-written with his wife, art/film critic Felicia Feaster). Wood's film-related essays have appeared in Sight and Sound, Film Comment, Positif and other publications. He also works as an editor, graphic artist and producer of classic films on DVD.www.psychopathia.com
www.bretwood.blogspot.com
Who I'd like to meet:
Harry Crews, David Cronenberg, Ned BeattyDetails
- Status: Married
- Hometown: Chattanooga, TN
- Orientation: Straight
- Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
- Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
- Children: Proud parent
- Smoke / Drink: No / No
- Occupation: Film/Video/DVD production
Interests
Music