Wes is a writer / director formerly based in Hollywood, working his way into the film industry now in the southeast. Wes unknowingly began his journey when evidence of his artistic talents became evident at a young age. Growing up in Atlanta, his artistry was immediately recognized upon entering elementary school, receiving awards from his teachers, and was soon enrolled into formal art classes at the local college.

When his parents divorced at the age of 7, he began traveling back and fourth between the two, but stayed in Atlanta for school and martial arts. Taking a greater interest in the paint program on his pc that allowed only four colors, he was enrolled into summer computer classes at a college in Indiana at the age of 10, followed by an indepedent computer science school, before returning to Atlanta. This was also the first summer that he began to keep a creative writing journal.

Wes' involvement with music began in middle school when he joined the high school band as he concentrated on digital art and martials arts, performing at concerts and competing at sparring tournaments. Out of love for all things horror and reaching the age he was able to participate, he also began to work at the local haunted houses every year, particiatiing in all aspects of production.
Even though the various activities kept him busy, he didnt feel as though he had found the right type of art that he enjoyed creating the most. Feeling that there was something greater out there to be found, he moved away from home to Tennesee, indefinitely, for the first time at 14, halfway through his freshman year of high school.

Although he lived with his father, his father was out of town for weeks at time, leaving him with much else to do but go to school and come home to continue work on his interest in computers, he talked his father into getting a dialup internet connection at the first opportunity.

Opening up the door to an audience for his digital art as a creative outlet, he immediately began building websites to make his work more presentable in this new medium. Discovering the possibility of having an immediate audience to read his creative writing, he began to expand on his writing while using his black and white webcam to make stop motion movies with action figures.

Over the next few years he continued his work with web and graphic design as his obsession with movies grew along with his vhs collection. His favorite class in high school, although disregarded by others as an "easy A", turned out to be Film Study, where even though he had seen the films before, he began to actually study film classics for the first time. Then, a series of life changing events began with the release of the movie "Scream." Unsurprisingly infatuated with the film that "revived the horror genre," Wes studied everything about the film, eventually stumbling across the fan-made sequel, Robert Lasowski's "Scream Louder," which gave Wes the realization that filming his own feature length film could be a possibility. The following school year, his senior year of high school, Wes was very intent about getting into the video production class that was only offered senior year.

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