Brett Wagner

Brett Wagner is a director and screenwriter. His forthcoming feature film, The Big Bend, in post-production, stars Jason Butler Harner and was filmed over a month in the remote west-Texas desert town of Terlingua. IndieWIRE declared his earlier film, Chief, a "must-see short film of the Sundance Film Festival." Chief won Best Dramatic Film at the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, a BAFTA Award of Excellence, audience awards at the Hawaii International Film Festival and the Maui Film Festival, and many other accolades. His 2014 film, Care, starring Rachel Brosnahan, also won Best Dramatic Film at LA Shorts, as well as Best Short Film at the Kansas City Film Festival and the Williamsburg Film Festival, and an audience award at the Napa Valley Film Festival. Both shorts received Academy Award qualification as a result of their festival wins. Brett's first feature film, Five Years (released internationally as The Hidden) won the Victoria Independent Film Festival, received B