Bryan Wizemann's 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 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 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.
“Losing
Ground makes its greatest connection in knowing us just as much
as we know these characters. It is fascinating filmmaking that gets
to the core of humanity, scrapes out even the most bottommost parts
of it, and holds it up to examine it.”
