BIO
Gregory Bayne is a filmmaker working and living in Idaho.
His work as a producer, director, editor, and cinematographer has appeared in several short, feature length and documentary films including TRUDELL, which premiered at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, the ESPN produced and Michael Hoffman directed OUT OF THE BLUE: A STORY ABOUT LIFE AND FOOTBALL AT BOISE STATE, about the 2007 Boise State Fiesta Bowl Champions, and PURPLE STATE OF MIND, a 2008 audience award winner at the Tallahassee Film Festival. His work has shown theatrically, at film festivals worldwide (including the Sundance, Seattle, Munich and SXSW, and deadCENTER Film Festivals), and broadcast nationally on PBS, ESPN and the Sundance Channel.
Bayne’s feature directorial debut, PERSON OF INTEREST, hailed as “this generation’s Taxi Driver” released in 2010 and was downloaded over 40,000 times in its first month of availability. In 2011-12, the film will appear on Cable VOD Networks across North America.
Bayne has been a guest speaker discussing the changing landscape of film and media at Columbia University, the Los Angeles Film Festival and the London Film School, and written articles for Filmmaker Magazine and the film/technology website WorkbookProject.com. He has been featured in FilmThreat, Filmmaker, MicroCinema and WIRED Magazines.
In 2011, his film, JENS PULVER | DRIVEN, an intimate feature documentary about legendary mixed martial arts champion, Jens Pulver, was released by Warner Brothers ranking in the top 100 documentaries on iTunes for over 6 months. It can be now be found on Netflix and Hulu and will be international release throughout 2012.
Currently, he is in production on his second feature documentary, BLOODSWORTH: An Innocent Man, about Kirk Noble Bloodsworth, the first death row inmate in the US to be exonerated by DNA evidence, and collaborating with filmmaker/musician Cory McAbee on a new creative endeavor dubbed Captain Ahab’s Motorcycle Club.
