Evan Glodell
director
Evan Glodell is an American feature film director, producer, writer, and actor, best known for directing the indie microbudget film Bellflower.
Early life
Glodell was born in Baraboo, Wisconsin, and briefly attended the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee before dropping out to pursue a career in filmmaking.
Career
Prior to the release of Bellflower, Glodell directed, wrote and starred in the show Boss of the Glory that aired on Stim-TV network. He also directed the 2009 music video Let Me Up by Cursive.
Glodell is a member of Coatwolf Productions, a collaborative group of actors and filmmakers.
Other work
Glodell designed a camera known as the Coatwolf Model II, which was used to film Bellflower. The Coatwolf Model II is a modified SI-2K Digital Cinema camera with a 4x5 imaging plane.
During the production of Bellflower, Glodell built several prototypes of the flamethrower that is central to the plot of Bellflower. Glodell also worked alongside co-producer and gaffer Paul Edwardson to make custom modifications to two key vehicles that appear in the film, "Medusa" and "Speed Biscuit".
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Evan Glodell” is director. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Evan, Glodell and director, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “director” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5415397. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009.
Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.
- Establishing names and roles
- Building a first chronology
- Locating cited institutions
Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Evan Glodell”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Evan Glodell primary sources, Evan Glodell archive and Evan research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Evan Glodell”?
- How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
- Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Evan Glodell” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.