Wes Whittaker

Anomalon Studios
Actor, Director and Screenwriter

Los Angeles, California

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About Wes

Wes Whittaker is a Writer/Director/Producer/Actor who has been making movies for over 20 years. He studied film at both New York University and Santa Fe University of Art and Design. He has directed shorts, documentaries and most recently a Sci-Fi Fantasy TV pilot. He has written several shorts, one TV pilot, eight feature length screenplays and multiple commercial treatments for national brands. He has worked as a crew member on several big Hollywood productions including the Academy Award Winner “No Country for Old Men”. He has a diverse background and along with filmmaking, writing and entrepreneurship he acquired a Masters in Psychology. His experience as a counselor and a teacher in the field of psychology has inspired new depths in his writing about the human condition. Wes is passionate about the art and business of filmmaking and strives to create cinema that not only entertains but also intrigues, educates and inspires audiences.

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The Man from Another Dimension (2018)
Television (Adventure, Fantasy and Sci-Fi) Writer / Director / Producer A man from a higher dimension travels to Earth to experience what it's like to be human only to meet a beautiful woman and then get swept up, with a diverse array of other beings, into various adventures throughout a multi-dimensional Universe.
The Red Road: As Revealed by Medicine Wolf (2010)
Film (Documentary) Co-Writer / Director / Producer This is a documentary about a journey down the path of hardship, triumph, war, peace, injustice, toxins, pollution, medicine, alchemy, minerals, monatomic gold, zeolite, healing, harmony, love, light, DNA, higher consciousness and being in the heart. This is the journey of Medicine Wolf and his path down the The Red Road.
The Unfound (2008)
Film (Mystery and Short) Camera Operator Add a Plot »
Swing Vote (2008)
Film (Comedy and Drama) Camera and Electrical Department November, 2004, New Mexico. Bud is a slacker with one good thing in his life, his engaging fifth-grade daughter Molly. On election day, Bud is supposed to meet her at the polling place. When he doesn't show, she sneaks a ballot and is about to vote when the power goes off. It turns out that New Mexico's electoral votes will decide the contest, and there it's tied with one vote needing recasting - Bud's. The world's media and both presidential candidates, including the current President, descend on Bud in anticipation of his re-vote in two weeks. Can the clueless Bud, even with the help of Molly and a local TV reporter, handle this responsibility? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
The Flock (2007)
Film (Crime, Drama, Mystery and Thriller) Camera and Electrical Department The paranoid registrant administrator of the Department of Public Safety Erroll Babbage is forced to an early retirement due to his abusive behavior against the sex offenders that he should monitor, and shall spend his last eighteen days training his replacement Allison Lowry. When the seventeen years old Harriet Wells is considered missing in his area of work, Errol is convinced that her disappearance is related to one of his parole sex offenders. However, his superiors do not believe on his investigations and he convinces Allison to follow him in the sick underworld of pornography and perversions trying to find the missing girl. Written by Claudio Cavalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Film (Crime, Drama and Thriller) Camera and Electrical Department In rural Texas, welder and hunter Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) discovers the remains of several drug runners who have all killed each other in an exchange gone violently wrong. Rather than report the discovery to the police, Moss decides to simply take the two million dollars present for himself. This puts the psychopathic killer, Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), on his trail as he dispassionately murders nearly every rival, bystander and even employer in his pursuit of his quarry and the money. As Moss desperately attempts to keep one step ahead, the blood from this hunt begins to flow behind him with relentlessly growing intensity as Chigurh closes in. Meanwhile, the laconic Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) blithely oversees the investigation even as he struggles to face the sheer enormity of the crimes he is attempting to thwart. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
The Astronaut Farmer (2006)
Film (Adventure, Drama and Sci-Fi) Camera and Electrical Department Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank. Unlike most, he's an astrophysicist with a rocket in his barn - one he's built and wants to take into space. It's his dream. The FBI puts him under surveillance when he tries to buy rocket fuel; the FAA stalls him when he files a flight plan - it's post-9/11, after all. His wife is angry when she finds out their bank is initiating foreclosure. Charlie fears failure and decides, precipitously, to launch. Are twenty-first century American dreams just a sign of insanity? Are those who believe in dreamers only fools? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
Beerfest (2006)
Film (Comedy) Camera and Electrical Department After the death of their grandfather Johann von Wolfhause, the brothers Jan and Todd Wolfhouse travel to Munich to fulfill a family tradition, spreading the ashes of Johann during the Oktoberfest. Their contact brings them to a secret beer competition, the Beerfest", where they are offended by Baron Wolfgang von Wolfhausen and the German branch of their family that accuse their great-grandmother of being a prostitute and their grandfather of stealing an old recipe of the best beer in Germany. Jan and Todd returns to USA humiliated and decide to organize a beer team to dispute the next Beerfest. They join Landfill, Barry and Fink and train long the year to participate in the competition. When they find the lost recipe hidden in a dummy, they feel that their German relatives told the truth. But the team is ready for the tough dispute. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
When Near the Sound (2003)
Film (Sci-Fi and Short) Writer / Director / Producer When Nadario comes to escort The Forgotten Man into another dimension he is surprised by a turn of events.