Bret Wood is anAtlanta-basedfilm director andauthor.
Wood was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee,[1] and attended theUniversity of Tennessee. After living inNew York City, where he was hired byKino International, he moved to Atlanta, with wife Felicia Feaster.[2]
Wood's most recent film isThose Who Deserve to Die, a supernatural revenge drama inspired by the novellaThe Avenger by Thomas De Quincey. His 2016 filmThe Unwanted was based on Sheridan Le Fanu's vampire taleCarmilla.[3] His previous films includeThe Little Death (2010),Psychopathia Sexualis (2006), andHell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films[4](2002), released by Kino International. His shorts includeJudgement (2005),Rapture (2006),Security (2007), andThe Other Half (2009).
In February 2007, his feature-length screenplayThe Seventh Daughter was developed as part ofEmory University's Brave New Works festival of plays. It was later named one of the winners of the first annualAtlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition.[5] In 2020,The Seventh Daughter was adapted as a ten-episode podcast from iHeart Radio.[6][7][8]
In 2018, Wood wrote and directed the scripted podcast "The Control Group for Stuff Media.[9][10]
As SVP and Producer of Archival Restorations for Kino Lorber, Wood's projects includePioneers of African-American Cinema[11] (2016), which won the Film Heritage Award from the National Society of Film Critics andPioneers: First Women Filmmakers[12] (2018, Kino Lorber), which won a Special Award from the New York Film Critics Circle.[13][14]
Wood is the author of the biographyTod Browning: une vie avec les freaks.[15] He also co-authored the bookForbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Film[16] with his wife, Felicia Feaster. He edited the booksQueen Kelly: The Complete Screenplay by Erich von Stroheim andMarihuana, Motherhood and Madness: Three Screenplays from the Exploitation Cinema of Dwain Esper. In 2013, Wood wrote the introduction toCentipede Press's edition of William Lindsay Gresham'sNightmare Alley,[17] and edited an anthology of Gresham's selected works entitledGrindshow.[18][19]
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