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North Dakota-based, independent film production company, Bad Medicine Films was established by Wanzek in 2012 and is named after his cabin and lake property on
Bad Medicine Lake in
Minnesota. His first project was in 2015 when Wanzek was the Executive Producer on the movie
Ten Thousand Saints, a film based on a novel by Eleanor Henderson. The movie premiered at the
Sundance Film Festival in 2015. That same year, Wanzek produced and developed a script for
Valley of Bones, his first full independent feature film.
Valley of Bones was distributed by Smith Global Media/
Sony Pictures and released across the United States in September 2017. In 2019, Wanzek produced
Human Capital, a remake of the 2013 Italian film of the same name, which was based on the novel by
Stephen Amidon. The film premiered at the
Toronto Film Festival on September 6, 2019. ==Philanthropy==