GRAYSON WHITEHURST, III is a writer/director living in Brooklyn, NY.
His work builds heightened, tactile worlds around grounded performances, shifting between absurdity and dark humor. Influenced by early personal loss, he is drawn to stories about faith, guilt, and the uneasy search for meaning.
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INSTAGRAM:
@graysonwhitehurst
DIRECT CONTACT:
graysonwhitehurst@gmail.com
US Commercial:
andrew@voyager.tv
CA Commercial:
garth@dearfriend.tv
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SELECTED PRESS & RECOGNITION:
Ad Age | Campaigns To Know About (Cologuard)
Ad Age | Editor’s Pick (BC Dairy)
Ad Age | Editor’s Pick (Pillsbury)
Little Black Book | The Directors
Shiny Awards (Winner)
Clio Awards (Silver)
Berlin Commercial (Top 10)
“A Handful of Dust” premieres on Omeleto
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RECOMMENDED VIEWING:
LA POISON (dir. Sacha Guitry, 1950), THE VIRGIN SPRING (dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1960), EYES WITHOUT A FACE (dir. Georges Franju, 1962), THE CREMATOR (dir. Juraj Herz, 1969), DON’T LOOK NOW (dir. Nicolas Roeg, 1974) COME AND SEE (dir. Elem Klimov, 1985), SPOORLOOS (dir. George Sluizer, 1988), THE KINGDOM (dir. Lars Von Trier, 1994-1997), CURE (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997), FUNNY GAMES (dir. Michael Haneke, 1997), TASTE OF CHERRY (dir. Abbas Kiarostami, 1998), THE WAILING (dir. Na Hong-jin, 2016), THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017), FIRST REFORMED (dir. Paul Schrader, 2018)