Peter Wisan

Screenwriter and Director

Los Angeles, California

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About Peter

Peter Wisan is a proud California native, having lived up and down the Golden Coast before calling Los Angeles home. Peter's life reads like a vibrant anthology of experiences and skill-gathering. In a former life, he attended University of California, San Diego, where he was a pre-med student, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Human Biology.

After graduating and seeing the world, Peter worked as a legal assistant in an environmental-protection law firm that took a page from Mister Smith Goes to Washington, specializing in championing lost causes. During this time, he took up screenwriting, and many of his works received acclaim in competitions and option deals.

Peter fulfilled a childhood dream by commissioning as an officer in the United States Marine Corps in 2012. He deployed overseas from 2014 to 2015, eventually separating from service honorably after attaining the rank of Captain. While deployed, he was first introduced to the plight of human trafficking victims, and, upon his Marine Corps contract expiring in 2016, Peter wrote and directed an acclaimed documentary exposing the underground sex trafficking industry in Southern California.

From there, he attended a Forbes top-50 worldwide school in Belgium and graduated with a Master in Western Literature, magna cum laude. Peter made the most of this period by deepening his knowledge of autodidactic foreign languages, of which he is conversational in Spanish, French, and Italian, as well as skilled in Dutch and German.

Peter's pluriform experiences and life events unify to strengthen his storytelling in a variety of ways: his Bachelor in Human Biology adds realism to any scientific aspects in his scripts, his time in the Marine Corps underscores the importance of tension and attention to detail, and the Master degree gives him the literary background to build worlds and craft memorable characters.

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Heaven Help Us Budget: $100K - $1M | Comedy When a rumor starts that the Olympics Committee is adding “capture the flag” to the official games, and a scout is coming to watch their local tournament, four feuding church leaders compete for recognition. The scout’s arrival promises to change everything, and it does, just not in the way anyone expects. This ensemble mockumentary feature is “For Your Consideration” meets “Dodgeball”.
DONATIONS WELCOME Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy When a pastor starving for purpose meets an arrogant phone scammer, the pastor decides to get extreme with the New Testament’s least popular command: help people exploit you. Will the scammer change his ways, or will the pastor lose everything?
MANIMAL Sci-fi ⋄ Horror When a law passes allowing human DNA to be combined with animals, the new hybrid "manimals" rise up and dominate the earth. Only the main character, a First Nations biologist and the last free human, can prevent the extinction of our species.
Hotel California Comedy When a post-college slacker searches for a low-cost housing situation, he finds himself amongst a zany society living in storage units.
Fortuna Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy When a con man we hate-to-love and his aspiring comedian brother negligently kill their uncle, they go on a zany road trip to dump the body while running from a murderous, obsessive con victim.
PERFICT Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Comedy When an overachieving teen finds himself at the reception area of the afterlife, he is tasked with finding one day to introduce his entire life or be removed from eternal bliss forever.
SPACE GINGERS Budget: $10M - $30M | Comedy ⋄ Action When an Icelandic man-boy is selected as the first redhead going to the moon, he faces his fear of dying before doing anything important, all while being persecuted by another ginger astronaut—an egomaniac TikTok star. Comp: Will Ferrell's Eurovision.
SALTWATER WINE Budget: $100K - $1M | Sci-fi ⋄ Drama In a stark world, a desperate man fights nature and his horrid past for survival. Will he find redemption or death where the ocean meets the shore?