Talent Guide

Wittney Horton

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Producing Lab 2008

Bio

Wittney Horton is currently working as an independent producer. She has set up a number of spec scripts, most notably Most Likely Two at Sony with Laurence Mark (As Good As It Gets), and Sex Lives of Married People with Fox Television Studios. Additionally, she is packaging and will be producing Alison Eastwood’s next feature, An Honest Man. She attended Film Independent’s Producer’s Lab in the Fall of 2008 with the project Close to Me, written by Jonathan Hludzinski (Directors Lab 2009, Screenwriters Lab 2008).

Throughout her career, Horton has collaborated with and worked for an extensive list of Hollywood producers such as Bobby Cohen, Gail Lyon, and Arnold Kopelson, director Gurinder Chadha, and studio heads like Amy Pascal. With them she has worked on films in a variety of genres, including Bounce, View from the Top, Peter Pan, and Win a Date with Tad Hamilton. At Cohen Pictures, Horton oversaw development and liaised with writers, directors, and studios on a varied slate of projects.

Horton earned bachelor’s degrees in both Film/Video Studies and Psychology from the University of Michigan.

Current Project

Close to Me (Narrative Feature)

Logline

When his wife tragically dies, high school teacher Gill Withers and a teenage student, who knew his wife better than he did, find comfort in each other.