Bret Wood

Who is Bret Wood?

Bret Wood is an Atlanta-based film director and author.

His credits include The Little Death, 'Psychopathia Sexualis and Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films, released by Kino International. His award-winning shorts include Judgement, Rapture, Security, and "The Other Half".

He also co-authored the book Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Film with his wife, Felicia Feaster. He edited the books Queen Kelly: The Complete Screenplay by Erich von Stroheim and Marihuana, Motherhood and Madness: Three Screenplays from the Exploitation Cinema of Dwain Esper. In 2013, Wood wrote the introduction to Centipede Press's edition of William Lindsay Gresham's Nightmare Alley, and edited an anthology of Gresham's selected works entitled Grindshow.

In February 2007, his feature-length screenplay The Seventh Daughter was developed as part of Emory University's Brave New Works festival of plays. It was later named one of the winners of the first annual Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition.