Bryan Wizemann

Wizemann’s latest feature YOU MEAN EVERYTHING TO ME was awarded the Rooftop Films and Brigade Festival Publicity grant and accepted 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 IFF Boston. Lauren Ambrose was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead with distribution by Oscilloscope. The screenplay was one of the top three winners of the Slamdance Feature Screenplay Competition. Wizemann’s microbudget feature LOSING GROUND was adapted from his critically acclaimed New York stage play and features the original cast. It premiered at Cinequest with distribution by FilmBuff. His early experimental 16mm feature SENSE starring Maria Dizzia was programmed at the Johnson Museum of Art and the Angelika Film Centre.

Wizemann’s short film work includes his college thesis 16mm film BUTTON SOUP (Cornell), THE MORNING SUN (Rooftop, IFC Media Lab) the television series COOKLYN (BRIC arts media), and FILM MAKES US HAPPY (DocPoint Helsinki, IFFB, Rooftop, Hamptons, Wholphin), which documents the last fight he’ll ever have with his wife about making films. His graphic novel The Weakest Fish, illustrated by Edgar Camacho, was adapted from his screenplay of the same name.

Wizemann has studied dramatic writing and directing with Tom Noonan (Paradise Theater), Lee Breuer (Flea Theater), Forest Stone (Yale Drama), Adrienne Weiss (Directing Actors), and DnA. He is the author of a collection of dramatic monologues, television pilots, stage plays, and screenplays, and has written for National Geographic and Radical Media. His interviews appear in Filmmaker Magazine, WSWS, Rooftop Films, Filmwax Radio, Tribute Canada, and BRIC.

Wizemann is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Film at Pratt Institute. He was a Sundance Lab Fellow, a guest artist and lecturer at Cornell University, The New School, and UNLV, and served as a juror for the Pratt Film/Video Program and the Heermans-McCalmon Dramatic Writing Panel. Wizemann is a graduate of Cornell University and was part of the MFA program at Hunter College.

Cornell University B.F.A. in Philosophy with a Minor in Film
M.F.A. study at Hunter College in Conceptual Art