ABOUT

In 1961, Tim, a thirteen-year-old boy in Texas, witnesses his mother having an affair. When his family’s secrets collide, Tim flees to Mexico on foot, where he discovers a new world. The Weakest Fish is a coming-of-age thriller of self-discovery that explores love and jealousy, loss and fear, escape and redemption, superstition and the natural world.

The Weakest Fish is a graphic novel adapted from an original screenplay, first written in Ithaca, NY, in 1999 (with many drafts since). It is inspired by Southern Gothic folklore and Mexican culture. Illustrated by the award-winning Mexican illustrator Edgar Camacho, it has been compared to films such as Stand By Me, Night of the Hunter, Walkabout, and No Country for Old Men.

BIOGRAPHIES

Bryan Wizemann's latest feature YOU MEAN EVERYTHING TO ME was accepted into the Sundance Institute Film Music and Sound Design Lab and awarded the Rooftop Films Brigade grant. His feature ABOUT SUNNY premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize at IFF Boston. Lauren Ambrose was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead with distribution by Oscilloscope. His microbudget feature LOSING GROUND was adapted from his critically acclaimed NewYork stage play and features the original cast. It premiered at Cinequest with distribution by FilmBuff. His experimental 16mm feature SENSE, starring Maria Dizzia, was programmed at the Johnson Museum of Art and the Angelika Film Centre. Bryan Wizemann currently teaches film at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.

Edgar Camacho won the Premio Nacional de Novela Gráfica Joven (National Young Graphic Novel Award) for ONION SKIN, which was published with Top Shelf in 2021. ACACIA 22 was published in French with Éditions çà et là, and the Mexican edition won the Pixelatl Chinelo 2022 Award for Best comic of the year.