Gregg Bishop

'Gregg Bishop' (qv) started making movies with his father's Super 8mm and 16mm film cameras when he was 7 years old and wrote & directed his first full-length feature, a spy thriller, at 17 years of age.He attended the Production Program at USC filmschool where his student film _Voodoo (1999)_ (qv) won over twenty film festivals world-wide including the Slamdance Film Festival. The short film is now screened for incoming USC film students, along with the short films _Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB (1967)_ (qv) by 'George Lucas' (qv) and _The Lift (1972)_ (qv) by 'Robert Zemeckis' (qv).After graduation, Bishop wrote & directed the $15,000 film festival smash _The Other Side (2006)_ (qv) which premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival where it was snapped up for a theatrical release. Variety called the movie "a lean, propulsively paced supernatural thriller, packed with pulse pounding excitement". Bishop is currently developing the movie as a TV series.Bishop directed & produced _Dance of the Dead (2008)_ (qv) starring 'Lucas Till' (qv) from _MacGyver (2016)_ (qv), which had its World Premiere at the SXSW Film Festival and was hand-picked by director 'Sam Raimi' (qv) for distribution through Lionsgate and Ghost House Pictures. Rob Tapert says "This was a movie that 'Sam Raimi' (qv) and myself watched on a Sunday afternoon, we howled and we howled till Sam's wife and kids started banging on his office door wondering if we were alright. I think I've watched it about five times so far." Ain't It Cool 'News' (qv) hailed _Dance of the Dead (2008)_ (qv) as "a cult classic" and Bloody-Disgusting called it "one of the best horror comedies ever made that will be remembered for years to come".In 2010, Gregg sold a TV series to Fox Studios. Bishop wrote and directed the Webby nominated _The Birds of Anger (2011)_ (qv) for NBC/Universal G4Films starring 'Jaimie Alexander' (qv) from _Thor (2011)_ (qv) and _Blindspot (2015)_ (qv). The film was selected by Robert Rodriguez to be featured on his El Rey Network.Bishop wrote and directed a segment called "Dante the Great" for the third installment of the highly acclaimed V/H/S franchise _V/H/S Viral (2014)_ (qv) which was released theatrically by Magnet Releasing.In 2016, Bishop directed the feature film _Siren (2016)_ (qv), which was released in theaters by Universal Pictures and is an adaptation of the popular short _V/H/S (2012)_ (qv) segment "Amateur Night". Ain't It Cool 'News' (qv) called it a "rock solid monster movie with a strong ensemble cast" and Los Angeles Times hailed it a "clever and confident expansion of a terrific short."Bishop recently sold his spec script _Lockdown_ (qv) that he wrote with 'Joe Ballarini' (qv) to Sony Pictures with 'Michael Bay' (qv) and Platinum Dunes attached to produce.::T. Solin