Bio

Wes Andre Goodrich is a New York-bred writer & director and one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 2023 New Faces of Independent Film.

Since graduating from Columbia University’s MFA Film Program, he has been the festival circuit run with two shorts: SPEAK UP BROTHA!, a musical romance in the style of 90s Black films, and PALM SUNDAY, a southern gothic film about a Jamaican man attempting to assimilate into an all-white church in 1970s Raleigh, North Carolina. Palm Sunday was an Oscar Qualifying Short for the 2024 Academy Awards.

He recently directed a short film: “Meal Ticket,” for Hillman Grad’s Rising Voices Fellowship, which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival last June. Meal Ticket was an Oscar Qualifying film for the 2025 Academy Awards.

Wes is managed by Redefine Entertainment.

Awards & Fellowships:

Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film (2023)

Coverfly Diverso Black Writers in Focus Fellow (2022)

Katharina Otto-Bernstein Mentorship and Development Prize (2022)

YoungArts In-Process Artist Residency (2019)

The Dare Tactic Playwriting Residency (2017)

Access Theater Artistic Residency (2017)