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Wade Wofford

Writer / director / producer
Wofford is also the President of Dedalus Films and founder / moderator of NSW.

Index of below:

  Bio
  Completed screenplays
  Links
  Contact info

Bio

Writer/Director Wade Wofford has studied multiple aspects of the dramatic medium for fifteen years. A native of an Atlanta suburb, Wofford studied Drama at the University of Georgia, then moved to LA at 21 to pursue a film career. There, he completed the two-year intensive program at the Meisner School of Acting and Los Angeles Film School's intensive one-year film production program.

He shot several student shorts and parlayed his production knowledge into feature work, serving as a gaffer, scenic carpenter, and set dresser. He directed several stageplays, honing his skill of working with actors. He adapted his third stageplay into a screenplay, and relentlessly studied still photography to expand his knowledge of film as a physical medium.

In 2000, Wofford moved to New York City to continue his multi-faceted study of the medium. He worked with light in off-Broadway theatrical productions, continued his study of photography, and wrote another four screenplays. In 2004, he founded Dedalus Films out of Brooklyn.

Wofford bought enough equipment to furnish Dedalus with a small production studio and began filming. He shot Assailable, a short collaboration with three dancers from Paul Taylor Dance, in 2005. In 2006, he began pre-production on his fifth feature screenplay, Perception, which was written around locations and actors he had access to. It took five years to complete Perception, Wofford's first feature film (he wrote, directed and personally financed the film). It won The Royal Reel Award in Filmmaking at the Canada International Film Festival and Best Dramatic Feature at the DIY Film Festival, whose programmers called Perception "a really great, beautifully shot and compelling film that stays with you for days afterwards."

Wofford moved to Northampton, Massachusetts in 2006, seeking a place with Brooklyn's energy that didn't demand $1800 a month for a space too small to fit his desk. By day, he teaches high school English at an inner city school in Springfield. He has completed nine feature scripts, has had one film produced, three scripts optioned, and is currently raising another micro-budget for The Answer (a second-coming-of-age tale set on a backpacking trail in the woods of Vermont) for summer 2013 production.

Completed screenplays

For more information on any of the below scripts, contact wade.

Perception

Drama (Produced) - completed July 2010, seeking distribution
    Winner, Royal Reel Award - Canada International Film Festival
    Winner, Best Dramatic Feature - DIY Film Festival

Set against the fragmented backdrop of a New York City winter, Perception is a moody, oftentimes quirky look at love, family and the nature of miscommunication.

The Common Man

Crime Drama - currently under option with Instinctive Films

A high-profile corporate attorney has vanished. Her kidnappers arrive to a dirty public men’s restroom on the side of the freeway to sell her to a mysterious buyer. When the buyer reveals his intentions, the deal spirals out of control.

The Answer

Drama - seeking funds for 2013 production

After his wife dies in a car accident, six of Gavin's oldest friends take him on a backpacking trip through Maine. Deep in the woods, each man finds a renewed sense of friendship and is forced to face his own inner demons.

Stringers

Psychological thriller - gritty, urban, intelligent: the next Se7en

A serial killer becomes fascinated with the work of a videographer, and begins staging his murders to be taped for broadcast on the daily news.

Plus 50

Environmental Drama - a Contemporary Social issues story just waiting to win someone an Oscar

The year...2060. The Rio Grande stands dry.  Military factions in China war over control of water treatment facilities.  The heat index in Atlanta is 140 degrees.  Genocide in Mali over dwindling resources.  And four people throughout the country fight to protect their families from the environmental reality that is tomorrow.

The Southerland School

Drama - featured in NSW's 2012 Script-to-Screen

A radical school of psychology has been removing children from their homes for over two decades, to raise them in a clinical atmosphere thought better for their development. As their first student enters the world a genius, the school is sued for malpractice.

Tyler

Family drama

After a sudden death in the family, Trevor returns to his childhood home, where he must confront long-neglected family demons. Strange appearances of his lost nephew lead him on a journey closer to his abusive father.

Ones and Zeroes

Offbeat romance - hot off the press

A computer programmer working for a dating website aims to "solve" love with a new romantic simulator, but when she gets involved in a real-world relationship, finds that her program has some problems.

Urban Ed

Documentary-style Drama - undergoing revisions

When a principled young urban educator tries to maintain a high level of academic rigor for his 10th grade students, he finds a myriad of obstacles internal and external that threaten his classroom, his career, and his own identity.

For more information on any of the above scripts, contact wade.

Links

Here's a list of links to Wade's work:

Contact info

See the above list of completed screenplays for spec scripts that Wade has to offer.

For more information on those, or to inquire about representing Wade or contracting him as a writer-for-hire, write wade at nohoscreenwriters dot com.

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