Artist profile: Chandler Wild
Chandler Wild(@chanwild ) is a director, writer, editor, and producer based in New York City whose work ranges from scripted fiction, feature documentaries, and branded content. His scripts have placed in the Austin Film Festival and he’s a 2024 Stowe Storylabs Producing Fellow. His feature documentary, “Mount Lawrence” @mountlawrencefilm tracked his 6,708 mile journey by bicycle to Alaska and played in festivals throughout the country. His debut feature The Dancing Monkey @dancingmonkey_film was released in the summer of 2024 after a festival run. He is the co-founder of All The Way Around Productions.
Chandler on 426
I can only describe my childhood home now. The house was sold more than a decade ago and torn down.
Without photos, the best I can hope for is that people get a proper approximation from my fuzzy, unreliable memories. These questionable recollections have a timeline—eventually everyone who knew the place will be gone and the home will truly cease to exist.
Describing a place to a human has similarity to describing it to a machine. Both use references to visualize an image. 426 is a video that, like a memory, only exists in a single place. Created with generative AI, the final product was printed to Hi-8 tape. All other digital remnants have been destroyed. Eventually the tape will wear out, just like my mind, and these imperfect memories will be lost forever.
For the past two and a half years we’ve been working on my first narrative feature, The Dancing Monkey, a modern day adaptation of Eugene O’Neill’s classic play “The Hairy Ape.”
The film touches on a lot of the themes pulsing through our national dialogue at the moment. The film was a labor of love and a true indie endeavor shot in Wisconsin Rapids, WI. After a year traveling the film to festivals around the country, we secured distribution and are out on multiple platforms.
The film is a heavy watch (but it has plenty of humor as well) and short at 73 minutes, but we’re really proud of the story we told and I’m extremely grateful I got to helm it.
Links to the film in my bio and listed below
Writer/Director - 🙋♂️
DP - @petergthedp
Colorist - @ariannashiningstar
Music Composition - @tonyscottgreen
Production Design - @smartsetsbysam
Art Direction - @kurtkraussofficial
Costume Design - @that_black_bat_licorice
Editor - @backslashkevin + 🙋♂️
AC - @jonharris.dp
Exec Producer - @scottdc101 + @carmenrita__
Producers - @imtombytheway + @natashalom
Amazon - https://geni.us/TheDancingMonkey/opt/0?iguid=_nXYgbNYFkmmkm2Pc8htTQ
Google Play - https://geni.us/TheDancingMonkey/opt/1?iguid=_nXYgbNYFkmmkm2Pc8htTQ
Vimeo - https://geni.us/TheDancingMonkey/opt/2?iguid=_nXYgbNYFkmmkm2Pc8htTQ
Dish Network - /franchise/the_dancing_monkey_e7361135
YouTube - https://geni.us/TheDancingMonkey/opt/4?iguid=_nXYgbNYFkmmkm2Pc8htTQ
Hoopla - https://geni.us/TheDancingMonkey/opt/5?iguid=_nXYgbNYFkmmkm2Pc8htTQ
Headed home to Texas! Super proud that my next feature script “Hilary Quick Doesn’t Talk To Her Anymore” is a semi-finalist at the Austin Film Festival’s Script Competition. One of my favorite film gatherings and very grateful to be going back in this capacity.
Cecilia Candelario Wild ✨ We are over the moon and forever grateful to our family, doula and incredible hospital staff that helped us navigate the long journey here♥️
Got lucky enough to do something I’ve always been dreaming of.
This summer I directed my first scripted feature. Been working like a mad man in post to finish it up and getting ready to share it with the world.
It’s called The Dancing Monkey and it’s an adaptation of Eugene O’Neil’s The Hairy Ape and takes place today. It’s about a factory worker with the deciding vote at his company’s union drive, who after getting compared to a dancing monkey, begins to question his place in America.
All The Way Around produced and it was only possible because of Carmen Candelario, Scott DelaCruz, and Peter Garafalo.
We had a ludicrously low budget but the town of Wisconsin Rapids opened its arms and let us tell our story there. The crew absolutely knocked it out of the park with limited resources and the cast was EXTRAORDINARY.
Hoping 2023 will have some fun screenings and looking forward to sharing it with the world.
In 2019, while re-hiking the final few miles of the Appalachian Trail, two women reflect on hiking the entire trail 40 years before.
Directed by: Chandler Wild
Edited by: Chandler Wild + Connor Lynch
Featuring: Judy Sublett Wild + Cathy Stieff Gotschall
Produced by: All The Way Around Productions
Solid start to the new year. The Infamous Future, a doc we helped produce, got picked up by HBO Max. If you’re looking for a hopeful doc about education and NYC give it a watch!
