Greg Harrison

Greg Harrison's first two features, Groove and November, both premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and sold to Sony Pictures Classics for worldwide distribution. Groove, a comedy chronicling one night in the San Francisco rave scene, garnered an Independent Spirit Award nomination for best feature. November, an experimental drama starring Courteney Cox and James LeGros shot on mini-DV in 15 days, won the cinematography award at Sundance, and Harrison was named one of 10 Directors To Watch by Variety.

Currently, Harrison wrote and is set to direct The Radioactive Boy Scout, based on the true story of a 16-year-old in Michigan who, in 1995, attempted to build a nuclear reactor in his backyard that was shut down by the Federal government. Harrison initially developed the screenplay through the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriter Lab. He is also adapting the nationally bestselling novel All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, a dark comedy about a dysfunctional Silicon Valley family in freefall during the economic crisis.

Harrison has also collaborated with acclaimed Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli, first on a fake movie trailer for would-be Hollywood remake of Caligula, featuring Gore Vidal, Helen Mirren, Milla Jovovich and Courtney Love, among others. It premiered at the Venice Biennale in 2005, played the 2006 Whitney Biennial, and is part of the Guggenheim’s permanent collection. Harrison also wrote and directed the satirical documentary Marlene Redux, about the life and death of Vezzoli in the art world, done in the style of an E! True Hollywood Story. It premiered at London’s Tate Modern in 2006 and continues to be shown at museums and galleries internationally.

In 2002, Harrison formed Map Point Pictures with producing partner Danielle Renfrew. In addition to Harrison’s projects, the company has produced numerous documentaries and features, including Double Dare, Daltry Calhoun, and American Son, which premiered at Sundance in 2008.

Harrison has been a guest lecturer at UCLA, MSU, CCCSA, and Film Arts Foundation, and has taught the director lab at Film Independent. He has also served on numerous film festival juries, including The Sundance Film Festival. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, author Janelle Brown.