---
name: "Austin Kolodney"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/austin-kolodney"
fi1m_id: "austin-kolodney"
imdb_id: "nm5398509"
tmdb_id: 1612427
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T19:19:54.993242+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Austin Kolodney

## Identity

Austin Kolodney

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/austin-kolodney
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** austin-kolodney
- **IMDb ID:** nm5398509
- **TMDB ID:** 1612427
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5398509/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1612427

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5398509/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1612427

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Dead Man's Wire*](https://film.one/film/dead-mans-wire.md) (70)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Austin Kolodney is a writer and director. He wrote the screenplay for the feature *Dead Man's Wire* (2025), a true-crime drama directed by Gus Van Sant and inspired by the 1977 Tony Kiritsis hostage crisis. The film stars Bill Skarsgård, Al Pacino, Colman Domingo and Dacre Montgomery.

Kolodney studied film and television production at the University of Southern California. He has directed short films including *Two Chairs, Not One* (2023) and *Kiwi* (2024), both Vimeo Staff Picks, as well as episodes of digital series for Almost Friday TV, Funny or Die, Syfy and Comedy Central. He is preparing his feature directorial debut with *Josephine the Blanket*.

*Sources: moviemaker.com, imdb.com, cinema.usc.edu, deadline.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dead Man's Wire* (2026), Fi1m 70, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/dead-mans-wire.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Dead Man's Wire* (2026), Writer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/dead-mans-wire.md)
- *Kiwi* (2024), Director
- *When Time Got Louder* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Two Chairs, Not One* (2023), Director, Writer
- *Divine Children* (2019), Producer
- *Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha* (2015), Director
- *The Worst: The Chaz Renegade Story*, Director

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