Graham Swon

Graham Swon was born in Oxnard, California. He studied theatre and philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University, then for a decade he worked as a film distributor at companies such as the Cinema Guild and Kino Lorber. As a producer he has worked with many independent filmmakers, including Matías Piñeiro Ted Fendt, and Ricky D’Ambrose. His first feature as a writer-director was the experimental horror film The World is Full of Secrets (2018). He is currently in pre-production on his second feature, entitled An Evening Song (for three voices). He was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2016.

Talks

Horrors Far Beyond Mere Violence: On Schalcken the Painter

By Graham Swon | October 29, 2020

Horrors Far Beyond Mere Violence: On Schalcken the Painter

Writer-director Graham Swon shines a light on Leslie Megahey's vastly underseen "indirect horror" movie, a lost BBC gem from 1979.

A Culture of Violence: On Wes Craven’s Scream

By Graham Swon | October 30, 2019

A Culture of Violence: On Wes Craven’s Scream

The World is Full of Secrets writer-director Graham Swon on Wes Craven's genre-defining 1996 horror classic.