ALISTAIR BANKS GRIFFIN


Alistair Banks Griffin is an international award winning feature film writer/director/producer and editor based in New York City. TWO GATES OF SLEEP which premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, and was runner-up for the Camera D’ Or. In 2018 Griffin directed his Sundance Institute Writers Lab supported feature THE WOLF HOUR starring Naomi Watts which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and received a US theatrical release in 2020 in over 50 cities and was released internationally by Universal Pictures..



SELECT PRESS

NY TIMES
‘The Wolf Hour’ Review: Panic in the City

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Sundance Interview: Naomi Watts, Jennifer Ehle Star in ‘The Wolf Hour’

INDIEWIRE
Cannes Review | Simple and Gorgeous: “Two Gates of Sleep”

SLANT MAGAZINE
Review: Two Gates of Sleep

FILMMAKER MAGAZINE
Five Questions for The Wolf Hour Writer/Director Alistair Banks Griffin

L'UOMO VOGUE
Keep Them In Mind: Alistair Banks Griffin 




REPRESENTATION

Manager Film + TV // Jay Baker
Legal // Andre Des Rochers

RESIDENCIES/GRANTS/AWARDS

Sundance Writer's Lab Fellow 2016
Sundance Institute Take Two Fellow 2017
Berlin Film Festival Residency 2015
San Fransisco Film Society Hearst Screenwriting Prize 2013
San Francisco Film Society KRF Grantee 2014
 CPH:PIX Film Festival, Winner Grand Prize 2011
Cinereach Fellow 2008


FESTIVALS

Official Selection, New York Film Festival, Gauge, 2008 (Short)
Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival, Two Gates of Sleep, 2010
(nominated for Camera D' Or)
Official Competition, Deauville Film Festival, Two Gates of Sleep, 2010
Official Selection, Tokyo Film Festival, Two Gates of Sleep, 2010
Official Selection, AFI Festival, Two Gates of Sleep, 2010
Official Selection, São Paulo Film Festival, Two Gates of Sleep, 2010
Official Selection, Taipei Gold Horse Film Festival, Two Gates of Sleep, 2010
Official Selection, CPH:PIX Festival, Two Gates of Sleep, 2010
Official Selection, Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Two Gates of Sleep, 2015
Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival, The Wolf Hour, 2019
Official Selection, Deauville Film Festival, The Wolf Hour, 2019