
Greg Kwedar
Directing
Biography
Greg Kwedar (/ˈkwiːdɑːr/) is an American film director and screenwriter. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film Sing Sing, alongside Clint Bentley, Clarence Maclin and John "Divine G" Whitfield. Description above from the Wikipedia article Greg Kwedar, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.
Train Dreams

Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed, becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse.
Heretic

Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group alongside other incarcerated men in this story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art.
Sing Sing

For three US Border Patrol agents, the contents of one car reveal an insidious plot within their own ranks. The next 24 hours may cost them their lives.
Transpecos

Having been gone for three years, closeted advertising executive Adrian returns to his Texas hometown and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.
1985

A grief-stricken cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. The two forlorn souls develop a special connection.
Between the Temples

An aging jockey is determined to win one last championship, but his dream is complicated when a young rookie shows up claiming to be his son.
Jockey
A downed pilot, wounded and isolated deep in hostile territory, whose survival relies on trusting a stranger who claims to be part of a vast secret network designed to bring her to safety.
N.A.R.
A Chicago love story follows two college sweethearts over a decade as they navigate the complexities of adulthood and fate tests their youthful dreams.
Saturn Return
A boy frees a mysterious wild man from a puddle. The man warns he may be locked up again. The boy revisits him to find him in a cage, begging freedom. The boy abandons him there to return once more and discover the truth of who he’s been all along.
WILDMAN

“Rising from Ashes” is a feature length documentary about the first Rwandan National Cycling Team and their six year journey to the Olympic games in London. It's not about the bike. It's about second chances, how our past doesn't have to define our future, and the impossible triumph of the human spirit over one of the world's most devastating genocides.
Rising from Ashes

This behind-the-scenes documentary follows Beto O'Rourke's rise from virtual unknown to national political figure through his bold attempt to unseat Ted Cruz in the US Senate.
Running with Beto
Eddie, an overconfident Nashville star, who is hiding a dark secret – he stole the songs for his hit debut album. Now, with a new wife and a baby on the way, Eddie must write his follow-up solo or risk losing everything. But just when things seem most hopeless, Eddie discovers a musical genius in the form of a magical possum with whom he strikes a dangerous Faustian bargain.
Possum Song

During a routine investigation of an abandoned truck, a Border Patrol Agent uncovers something that will cause him to question the very nature of his job.
Dakota

Ghost Fleet follows a small group of activists who risk their lives on remote Indonesian islands to find justice and freedom for the enslaved fishermen who feed the world’s insatiable appetite for seafood. Bangkok-based Patima Tungpuchayakul, a Thai abolitionist, has committed her life to helping these “lost” men return home. Facing illness, death threats, corruption, and complacency, Patima’s fearless determination for justice inspires her nation and the world.
Ghost Fleet
A young man has an affair with an older woman, but only realizes his love for her as she's walking out of his life.
I'll Remember Everything

An injured jockey must endure nine races on nine horses over the course of one unforgiving night on the track. He will test the limits of his body and find what exists in the grey area between pain and beauty — if it doesn’t destroy him first.
9 Races

A father struggles to right a wrong committed several years before. If he fails his family dies.
One Small Step
Short film produced by A24, filmed at San Quentin State Prison, starring Simon Rex.
Untitled Simon Rex Short Film
The dark and uncertain world that Spinks inhabits is turned upside down when a drug deal goes bad...