| Dan Bush | |
| Birth Date: | [1] |
| Occupation: | Film director and screenwriter |
| Known For: | The Signal |
Dan Bush is an American film director and screenwriter best known for The Signal (2007), which he co-directed and co-wrote with Jacob Gentry and David Bruckner.
Bush attended the University of South Carolina and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[2]
With Jacob Gentry and David Bruckner, he co-wrote and co-directed The Signal, which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. The three had worked together previously in various projects in Atlanta.[2] Bush collaborated with Ben Lovett, who scored The Signal, in the short film Ghost of Old Highways, which won Best Music and Best Cinematography at the Charlotte Film Festival.[3] Bilge Ebiri of New York wrote that his short film A Day in the Life (2006) is "one of the coolest short films we’ve seen in recent years".[4] The Reconstruction of William Zero premiered at the Fantasia Festival on July 20, 2014.[5] In January 2014, Screen Daily reported that The Trust was to begin pre-production in April 2014.[6]
In 2008, Bush was nominated for the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award along with Bruckner and Gentry for The Signal.[7]
| Film | Year | Director | Producer | Writer | Editor | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gil's Choice | 1998 | ||||||
| A Day in the Life | 2006 | short film | |||||
| The Signal | 2007 | segment "Escape from Terminus" | |||||
| FightFuckPray | 2008 | ||||||
| The Blood Bond | 2010 | ||||||
| Ghost of Old Highways | 2012 | short film | |||||
| The Reconstruction of William Zero | 2014 | ||||||
| Don Peyote | 2014 | ||||||
| The Vault | 2017 |