Full Name Gren Wells Name Gren Wells | Role Filmmaker | |
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Residence Los Angeles, California Occupation Filmmaker, Screenwriter, Actor Movies The Road Within, A Little Bit of Heaven Similar People | ||
Director gren wells discusses the road within on italk movies
Gren Wells is a Kentucky-born filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor who works and resides in Los Angeles.
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- Director gren wells discusses the road within on italk movies
- The road within interview with gren wells robert patrick and robert sheehan1
- Early life
- Career
- Awards
- References
The road within interview with gren wells robert patrick and robert sheehan1
Early life
Wells was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. After attending Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York, Wells moved to New York City, where she starred in six indie films over a two-year span, one of which, Man About Town, won Best Short Film at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival. After moving to Los Angeles, Wells became a stand-up comic and wrote her first feature script, A Little Bit of Heaven.
Career
Her first script, A Little Bit of Heaven, was sold to 20th Century Fox. This script later found a home at The Film Department and starred Kate Hudson, Gael García Bernal, Kathy Bates, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosemarie DeWitt, Lucy Punch, Romany Malco, and Peter Dinklage.
Her second film, The Road Within, is Wells' directorial debut. After premiering at the Los Angeles Film Festival it was acquired by Well Go USA. It stars Zoë Kravitz, Dev Patel, Robert Sheehan, Robert Patrick and Kyra Sedgwick and is scheduled for theatrical release on April 17, 2015.
Awards
Wells was chosen as one of Variety's Top 10 Directors to Watch for 2014.