Writing

Castle Kingside (2025), Directed by Dylan Wood

A grandfather and granddaughter bond through the years over their shared love of chess. As times get harder, they use their love for the game and each other to get through it.

Accolades:

Official Selection: Sandpoint Idaho Film Fest (2026)

Official Selection: North Idaho Film Festival (2026)

Official Selection: Idaho Films in France (2026)

A Change of Plans (2025), Directed by Dylan Wood

A depressed ex-bomb squad member plans on ending his own life. In the mail, he receives a bomb that threatens the life of him and his friends/family. He must talk his nervous brother-in-law through defusing it and rediscover his will to live.

Accolades:

Official Selection: Easterseals Disability Film Challenge (2025)

Official Selection: Colossal Cinematic Showcase (2025)

Official Selection: New York Movie Awards (2025)

The Walking List (2024), Directed by Dylan Wood and John Wee

A woman diagnosed with terminal MS attempts to finish off her bucket list with the help of family and an unexpected ally.

Accolades:

Award Winner: World Film Festival in Cannes (2024)

  • Best Film on Disability
  • Best inspirational FilmNominee
  • Best Actress in a Short Film (Jessi Giese) – Nominee

Award Winner: F3: Queen City Film Festival (2024)

  • Best Inspirational Film

Award Winner: Twin Falls Sandwiches Film Festival (2024)

  • Best Inspirational Film

Award Winner: The IndieFEST Film Awards (2024)

  • Filmmaker with a Disability
  • Disability Issues
  • Actress: Leading (Jessi Giese as Abigail)

Award Winner: Accolade Global Film Competition (2024)

  • Filmmaker with a Disability
  • Disability Issues
  • Actress: Leading (Jessi Giese as Abigail)

Award Winner: Best Shorts Competition (2024):

  • Filmmaker with a Disability
  • Disability Issues
  • Actress: Leading (Jessi Giese as Abigail)

Award Winner: 307 International Film Festival Wyoming (2025)

  • Actress: Leading (Jessi Giese as Abigail)

Award Nominee: NEW YORK & CINEMATOGRAPHY AWARDS (2024)

  • Best Indie Film

Award Nominee: Liverpool Indie Awards // LIA (2025)

  • Best Indie Film

Official Selection: Idaho Films in France (2024)

Official Selection: Idaho Short Film Showcase (2025)

Official Selection: Art Without Limit International Film Festival (2025)

Official Selection: The Film Collective Short Film Showcase (2025)

Official Selection: CHAMPION FILM SALON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (2025)

Official Selection: Idaho Film Week at the Flicks! (2026)

Semi-Finalist: Cinema Touching Disability (2025)

Semi-Finalist: Film Revolution (2025)

Mercy (2024), Directed by Scott Grady and Dylan Wood

A man wrongfully convicted of murder is spared from the gallows at the last second.

Accolades:

Award Winner: 13 Stories I48 Challenge (2024)

  • Stool Pigeon (Best Use of History)
  • Best Supporting Performance (Lance Thompson)

Staged (2023) Written By Philip Angele and Dylan Wood

A small-town, ladies-man bartender must put on a play to impress the girl of his dreams.

Accolades:

Semi-Finalist: Cordillera International Film Festival (2023)

Award Winner: Portland Comedy Film Festival (2023)

  • Best Feature Film Screenplay

The Caregivers Playbook (2023), Written by Dylan Wood

A naive caregiver clashes with his newly disabled and embittered client, but the two begin to forge a strange friendship out of their differences.

Accolades:

Award Winner: Portland Comedy Film Festival (2023)

  • Best Teleplay

Award Winner: Lonely Seal International Film, Screenplay, and Music Festival (2024)

  • Best Teleplay

Official Selection: Diverse Story Showcase (2024)

A Strange Place to Meet (2023), Directed by Dylan Wood

The true life story of an estranged father and son meeting in prison after 20 years apart.

Accolades:

Official Selection: Idaho Indie Film Festival (2024)

Award Winner: 13 Stories I48 Challenge (2023)

  • Audience Choice Award
  • Stool Pigeon (Best Use of History)

Sunday Morning by the Goodyear Wimps (2023), Directed by Tray Robinson and Dylan Wood

A story about love and love lost told by the use of fond memories of Sunday mornings spent with the one you love.

Link: https://youtu.be/sE392R2uzr4The fifth of

Accolades:

Official Selection: Colossal Cinematic Showcase (2023).

Third Strike (2020), Directed by Dylan Wood

Third Strike is the real-life story of Jimmie Whitaker and Barney O’Neill. At eleven, Jimmie shot his mother for asking him to do the laundry, he is thrown into prison for his crime. Inside he’s roommates with Barney O’Neill and they form a Father-Son relationship. Premiered at the Old Idaho Penitentiary 13 stories film festival, 2020.

Link: https://youtu.be/6aGfAIRfn2A

The Day Hope Died (2019), Directed by Scott Grady

The Day Hope Died is an award-winning Superman Fan-Film. Jimmy Olsen struggles with the death of his hero, Superman, so he goes on assignment to write an article about who the ‘Man of Steel’ truly was. He’s in for more than he bargained for, including becoming a hero himself.

Accolades:

Award Winner: Oniros Film Festival (2019)

  • Best Fan Film

Official Selection: F3: Queen City Film Festival, Film Curation and Film Awards (2020).

Official Selection: Colossal Cinematic Showcase (2020).

Link: https://youtu.be/Sxk4WiVSEiM

Red Feather Down (2018), Directed by Dylan Wood, Jake Arasim, Bryce Funkhauser, Michelle Oneida

Red Feather Down is a wacky comedy about two best friends who become mortal enemies and begin the Great Pillow Fight. Premiered at the 2018 I48 Screening.

Link: https://youtu.be/fB9XsOVyCqc

Broken (2015), Directed by Ben Champlin

Broken is an updated version of the Prodigal Son. Gabe comes home after getting into trouble. His old friend, Jerry, has to make the decision to forgive and let Gabe back into his life, or kick him out onto the street.

Link: https://youtu.be/oK9fMnfFNjc

Doppelganger (2015), Directed by Ben Champlin

Doppelganger is the story of the struggle between man and himself. Leo Evans comes to face to face with himself and learns the hard lesson that sometimes it’s easier to keep running than to stand and fight.

Link: https://youtu.be/i1n5rXKEqtA