Wesley Goodrich

2022 BWIF Fellow
Columbia University

HERETICS
Logline: In the cold and calculated world of a mega-church, three janitors uncover a dark secret that goes all the way to the top.

Wes is a Brooklyn-based writer-director. Since graduating from Columbia, he has been in the festival circuit with Speak Up Brotha!, a musical romance in the style of 90s Black films, and Palm Sunday, a southern gothic short about a Jamaican man attempting to assimilate into an all-white church in 1970s Raleigh, NC. He recently directed Meal Ticketfor Hillman Grad’s Rising Voices Fellowship, which premiered at Tribeca 2024. Wes was selected by Filmmaker Magazine as one of the 2023 New Faces of Independent Film.