Wade Wofford

A 25-year veteran of the filmmaking industry, Wade Wofford is an award-winning filmmaker: screenwriter, director, producer, editor and cinematographer.

Wofford on the set of Urban Ed, which he wrote, produced and directed in association with HWS.

Wofford, an Atlanta native, has studied film relentlessly over the span of 25 years: writing at the University of Georgia, acting at the Sanford Meisner School in Hollywood, filmmaking at Los Angeles Film School, set/light design on the stages of New York City, and cinematography in Massachusetts.

In 2004, he founded Dedalus Films out of Brooklyn - and produced his first short - Assailables (a no-budget collaboration with Paul Taylor dancers in NYC) - as well as his first feature - Perception (which won Best Dramatic Feature at the Hollywood DIY Film Fest, whose programmers raved that it was “a really great, beautifully shot and compelling film that stays with you for days afterwards”).

In 2006, Wade founded Noho Screenwriters Workshop, where he met future HWS partners Jake Hulse and Mike Haas.  In 2015, he finished his second feature, The Answer, which won at Canada International Film Festival.  In 2014, he was Director of Photography for Jake Hulse's Heroes Don't Come Home.

Currently in post on several projects:

  1. His third feature, Urban Ed - as Writer/Director/Producer - based on the real-world closure of the Springfield, MA school where he taught high school English. The script won the Page/New England Fellowship at Stowe Story Labs as well as Semi-finals in the Nicholl Screenwriting Competition.

  2. Purebred (horror), which he wrote, directed and produced - one in a trio of short films set in the Semblance universe.

  3. Soot (action) which he co-wrote, Produced and DP’d - the second in that trio.

  4. Ravens & Swallows (spy thriller) which he co-wrote, Produced and DP’d - which will complete the trio of Semblance shorts.

WADE’S FILMMAKING ACCOLADES

  • Top 1% / RedList - Coverfly

  • Winner - Rising Star Award & Royal Reel Award in Filmmaking, Canada International Film Festival

  • Winner - Stowe Story Labs Fellowship

  • Winner - Best SciFi Screenplay, Nashville Film Festival

  • Finalist - WeScreenplay’s Diverse Voices

  • Finalist - Screencraft

  • Semi-Finalist - Best Feature Drama, Nicholl Screenwriting Competition

  • Semi-Finalist - Best Feature Drama, Austin Film Festival’s Feature Drama