Brett Wagner is a director of brand storytelling, comedy, and real-people TV spots for clients like McDonalds, Ford, American Savings Bank, North Carolina Lottery, Hawaiian Airlines, Belkin International, EmblemHealth, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. (He's repped by LA-based Whiskey Bear.) He has collected many industry awards that will crowd the mantle he'll have when he gets a bigger house, one with a mantle.
When he’s not making commercials, Brett writes and directs award-winning films such as THE BIG BEND, which despite the tone of this bio is a suspenseful drama and something of a tear-jerker. The Hollywood Reporter called it “alluring” and Film Threat called it “exceptional.” THE BIG BEND is 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and began streaming on Amazon and AppleTV in 2025, after a successful theatrical release.
Brett also directed a film called CHIEF, which premiered at Sundance and was declared “a must-see” by Indiewire, and another one called CARE, starring Rachel Brosnahan. Both films won a bunch of film festivals, earning them Academy Award qualification and many Lucite statuettes, which will one day go on that mantle.
Brett is the Associate Chair of Film & Television at The Savannah College of Art and Design, in beautiful Savannah, GA, where he lives with his family and sometimes other people’s families.
He has dived with great white sharks, organized Martin Scorsese’s film collection, sipped kava with the village elders in Samoa, traded on the black market in Soviet Leningrad, worked concessions at the Rocky Horror Picture Show, poked hot lava with a stick, and once squished a Suzuki with an excavator, all in the name of storytelling.
He looks like this, on a good day, and only if there is a beach behind him:
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