Bio
Wes Andre Goodrich is a New York-bred writer & director and one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 2023 New Faces of Independent Film.
He is currently developing his TV pilot: HERETICS, a dark comedy that follows three twenty-something megachurch janitors: Dre, Cash & Julie, who stumble upon the dead body of the Senior Pastor.
Wes is also on the festival circuit run with two shorts: SPEAK UP BROTHA!, a musical romance in the style of 90s Black films, that won The Grand Jury Award for Short Films at Dances with Films 2023. and PALM SUNDAY, a drama about a Jamaican man attempting to assimilate into an all-white church in 1970s Raleigh, North Carolina. PALM SUNDAY is nominated for Best Student Short for the 2023 The Wrap’s Short List and won both the Best Narrative Drama Short Award at the 2023 Longleaf Film Festival and the ACE Entertainment Award for Best Film at the 2023 Columbia University Film Festival.
Wes is the recipient of the Columbia University Dean’s Grant and The Katharina Otto-Bernstein Grant for the film PALM SUNDAY and was a 2022 Diverso Black Writers in Focus Fellow. His films have screened at New Orleans Film Festival, Calgary International Film Festival, Cleveland Int’l Film Festival, American Black Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, Dances with Films LA.
Wes is managed by Redefine Entertainment.
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