filmmaker
Vanessa Ionta Wright is an Atlanta based filmmaker. She has written, directed and produced several films, including a fully authorized Stephen King adaptation. The most recent film she co-produced, SpookT, starring Haley Leary, Christen Sharice and featuring Eric Roberts is now available on Tubi. She is currently in production on her next feature film, Mister X alongside director Tony Reames. Vanessa graduated from Ohio University with a degree in video production & film before heading to Los Angeles where she got her start working on music videos as a production assistant; working with artists like The Bloodhound Gang, Oleander and Smokey Robinson. She eventually moved to Atlanta and worked for a commercial production company as an APOC working with clients like Coca-Cola, Macy’s and the City of Atlanta. In 2002, she penned her second feature screenplay, a reimagining of Friday the 13th and landed herself a face to face meeting with New Line Cinema in Los Angeles, reinforcing her belief that with enough hard work, anything is possible.
Vanessa is a lifelong fan of cinema, especially the horror genre. She grew up watching The Twilight Zone and films by Alfred Hitchcock, Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, John Carpenter, Mel Brooks and Stephen Spielberg. But, it was a 1992 screening of Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs that inspired her to pursue filmmaking as a career.
Vanessa also runs the Renegade Film Festival, an event that embraces diverse filmmakers and inclusive stories.
She enjoys punctuality, scary movies, a quick wit, sandwiches, the music of Michael Jackson, Halloween and Bacon Jam. She does not enjoy bugs, excuses, oppression, laziness or curved walls.
films
Rainy Season (short film) - Screenwriter/Director/Producer
I baked Him a Cake (short film) - Director
Be a Hero (short film) - Screenwriter/Director/Producer/Editor Orange Duck (short film) - Screenwriter/Editor
The Fangover (short film) - Screenwriter/Producer
13 Fanboy (feature film) - Production Coordinator SpookT (feature film) - Producer Filet de femme (short film) - Producer Sweaty Larry (short film) - Screenwriter/Director/Producer
screenplays
Bayou Gold (feature) - Semi-Finalist 2003 American Zoetrope Screenwriting Competition Rainy Season (short adaptation) - Winner 2016 Crimson Screen Horror Film Festival The Time Changer: Into the Past (short) - Finalist 2014 Shriekfest Horror Film Festival The Time Changer: Close at Hand (short) - Finalist 2015 Shriekfest Horror Film Festival The Time Changer: Time Enough (short) Captain Midnight (short) From Here to There (short) Layers (short) Phobic (feature) Goldentooth (feature) A Quality of Mercy (short) Sister Mary Murphy: Vampire Slayer (short)- Winner Spring 2021 Oregon Screams The Stain (short) - Finalist 2022 Crimson Screen Horror Film Festival Permanent Damage (short) - Finalist 2019 Crimson Screen Horror Film Festival
