Talent Guide

Drew Pillsbury

  • Discipline:Director, Writer
  • Program Year:Screenwriting Lab 2007

Bio

Drew has worked for over twenty-five years as an actor, getting his start opposite Griffin Dunne and Madonna in the resounding flop Who’s That Girl. With nowhere to go but up, he subsequently starred in the critically acclaimed independent film Jerome, opposite Wendie Malick. Jerome appeared in numerous film festivals around the world, including Taos, Austin, AFI, Munich, and Berlin. Jerome was released theatrically and subsequently picked up by the Sundance Channel.

Drew’s first feature as a screenwriter was 100 Mile Rule. It stars Maria Bello, Jake Weber and Michael McKean, and was purchased by HBO after appearing at numerous film festivals, including Cannes, Cinequest, Santa Barbara, Palm Springs, Taos, Nashville, USA, Fort Lauderdale and Stony Brook where it garnered the Audience Choice award.

Pillsbury’s second film, Broken, stars Heather Graham, Jeremy Sisto and Tess Harper. The film premiered at the AFI Film Festival. First Look Studios released Broken in NY, LA, Chicago, Austin and Minneapolis and then it was subsequently picked up by SHOWTIME.

Recently Drew wrote, produced and starred in Fifty-Nothing. The film premiered at the Palm Springs International Film Festival and was hailed by Variety as a “smartly written, thoughtful, intelligent comedy”. Fifty-Nothing is currently appearing at various film festivals around the country. The film’s official website: www.fiftynothing.com

Drew recently starred as Robert McNamara in Michael Bay’s, Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon. He is presently putting the pieces in place to make his directorial debut with Kiss Don’t Tell.

Current Project

KISS DON'T TELL (NARRATIVE FEATURE)

Logline

During one lonely summer in Beaumont, California, step-brother and step-sister Derek and Riley Sutherland find themselves looking for love in all the wrong places. None more so than Riley, who's dead set on finding it right under her own roof.