NYC/LA Based Filmmaker

Having written, directed and edited features, television and commercials, William Wedig is an award winning, bi-coastal filmmaker in all phases of production.

As the youngest of six boys, and coming from an Academy Award winning family (Geoff Wedig, 2017), Will grew up obsessed with films, watching “popcorn flicks” late into the night. This is where he found his inspirations: the style of Ridley, the movement of Boyle and Bigelow, and the heart of Singleton. The off-kilter worlds and characters of the Coens alongside the stylings of Liman and Tarantino and the comedy of Smith and Linklater. These were his mentors and these films became his school books.

BACKGROUND

Wedig was born in Marietta, Ohio, a town of less than 13,000 residents, nestled between some of the poorest counties in the Mid-Ohio Valley. His family had a modest life to say the least, keeping three cars in the driveway, two of which ran and the third used for parts.

Starting at age 11, Wedig began to scrape together short films, borrowing cameras from his “rich” friends and cutting them linearly VCR to VCR. Through sheer determination, he moved to New York City where he lived in a one-bedroom apartment deep in Queens with four roommates, surviving off a daily budget of $3.50 a day. Through a series of extreme debt solutions, his parents put all six boys through college. Wedig graduated from The School of Visual Arts with a BFA in Film Editing in 2006.

From these experiences, a strong sense of empathy burned in his heart for those who struggle for something more. Through his vision, his films have featured underdog characters fighting for a better tomorrow and a world a little less cruel to those with less.

Director William Wedig

Director William Wedig

THE WORK

Wedig’s work has included feature films like Forged and Rise of the Dead, TV specials like Exposure: Sports Illustrated Swimsuit, and television work such as Team Toon. His films have won festivals like The Coney Island Film Festival (Bygones, Best Comedy Short) and the HBO New York Latino Film Festival (Forged, Best Feature Film).

His feature script The Devil’s Chasing Me placed in the top 1.5% of over 6,500 submissions as a semi-finalist in the International Screenwriters Association’s Table Read My Screenplay Competition. It also reached the Second Round of ISA’s Fast Track Fellowship and was a semi-finalist in the Final Draft Big Break Contest. Additional work has earned top 20% placement in the Academy Nicholl Fellowships and recognition in competitions including Launch Pad and the Tracking Board.

He’s a proud member of the Television Academy, a Board Member of Hollywood Radio and Television Academy, and a member of the the Motion Pictures Editor’s Guild.

He has moderated panels with the Oscar-winning teams behind films such as Materialists, including writer/director Celine Song (Past Lives), and Wolfs, featuring writer/director Jon Watts (Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, Spider-Man: No Way Home). Other talks have included Is This Thing On?, Severance, The Secret Agent, A Real Pain, Inception, True Romance, Capote, La La Land and more.

With extensive commercial experience, Will has directed commercial and digital content for brands like Coca-Cola (featuring singers Monica Brown & LeToya Luckett), Smirnoff (feat. Lance Gross), AT&T (feat. St. Beauty, Chevy w/artist Ron Bass, Walmart, and Geico.

WORK SHOWN ON / AVAILABLE WITH:

His editing credits include the Smithsonian series On The Fly: Adventure at Altitude, the PBS/Time Inc. Studios TV Special The Life a House Built, The Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter Work Project, Yahoo! Mail with Nicole Richie, Chevy Malibu with Isaac Mizrahi, The World Sports League shows for J-BAY, TRESTLES and U.S. OPEN for air on ABC and CBS, and TIME'S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PHOTOGRAPHS and TIME'S ONE DREAM. His work on CBS was shown to over 12 million people during the 2023 Grammys, and he edited promos that have run during The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and the final episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden.

A proud member of The Motion Pictures editors Guild (IATSE Local 700), he’s also a member of the Hollywood Radio & Television Society for over a half decade and is on the Advisory Board to MOV Film, helping bring film to Southeastern Ohio and his hometown of Marietta, Ohio. He graduated with a degree in film from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and spends half his time with his wife in Brooklyn and half in Los Angeles.