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Will Canon is best known for his award-winning feature film debut, BROTHERHOOD, which won Audience Awards at South By Southwest, The Dallas International Film Festival, and was nominated for a Gotham Award. The New York Times selected BROTHERHOOD as a Critic’s Pick and Variety called it, “Ingeniously constructed and propulsively paced.” Will then went on to make his second feature, DEMONIC, starring Frank Grillo and Maria Bello, for producer James Wan and Dimension Films. Next, Will wrote TARGET CHURCHILL for the Solution Entertainment Group about Winston Churchill’s trip to the United States in 1946 to give his famed Iron Curtain speech. Will then set about development on the fact-based heist thriller, MAJORING IN CRIME, for Gold Circle Films based on the Vanity Fair article of the same name as well as the southern-thriller DOWN SOUTH. Will recently finished his third feature, THE CONFESSION, starring Italia Ricci and Scott Mechlowicz, which is being released by Quiver on January 16, 2026 on Itunes, Amazon, Fandango Home, and Google Play.

Ep108 Will Canon - The Power of Rigor: How One Filmmaker's Relentless Revision Process Creates Award-Winning Films
Jan. 9, 2026

Ep108 Will Canon - The Power of Rigor: How One Filmmaker's Relentless…

How to build a career that actually LASTS in an industry where most people flame out... This is the FIRST episode in a new series Jason's calling Power Traits. Where he brings on people he's known for YEARS... And identifies ...

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