FILMMAKER: WILL MOORE

Filmmaker Will Moore was born and raised in Victoria, TX. After high school, Will move to Austin where he would spend his next four years at the University of Texas playing football for the longhorns and earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. The son of Costume Supervisor Stanley Moore, Will spent his summers while in college employed by his father, working on such films as Robert Rodriguez's The Faculty and Mel Gibson's We Were Soldiers. It was while on these summer “breaks” that Will discovered his life’s calling, filmmaking.

Never one to procrastinate, a week after graduating Will set out after the dream and moved to Los Angeles. He quickly began working as a production assistant, pulling grunt duties on a number of films, including Big Momma's House and Dude Where's My Car. Then by a chance, Will landed a job at one of the top literary and talent agencies in Los Angeles, the Gersh Agency. While at Gersh Will assisted several A-list writers; working directly on rewrites with the likes of Dennis O'Neill, scribe of The River Wild and John Rice, who penned Windtalkers for John Woo. This exposure instilled in Will a sense of confidence and by the close of 2000 he knew it was time to move on.

Will returned to Austin in early 2000 and over the next two years he would write and direct over twenty short films. In the Fall of 2002 Will enrolled in the highly acclaimed Austin Film Works Production Program taught by Steve Mims (Professor of Robert Rodriquez) where he would write, direct, and edit three films, all of which would be screened at the Alamo Draft House in downtown Austin, Texas.

By the close of 2002 Will decided it was time to make his first feature film, a script he had written called Wesley Cash. In order to raise the money for Wesley Cash Will worked two jobs and then in desperation sold his recently paid off 2000 Ford Explorer. In August of 2003 Will returned to his hometown of Victoria and on a shoestring budget of $20,000 completed his first feature film. To accomplish this task Will had to produce, story board, directed, operated the camera, designed the sound, color corrected, and edited the film all on his own. In late Will sold the North American rights of Wesley Cash to Vanguard Cinema. He is currently developing his second feature film, Cowboy Smoke, which he hopes to begin production on in the summer or 2006. In addition to this Will is in post-production on a short film titled Quarter To Life as well as a short documentary titled Storm Chasers.