Person
Brianna Russell
Directing
Biography
Brianna Russell is a screenwriter and director based out of Clarke’s Beach, Newfoundland. Her work focuses on queerness in media, genre filmmaking, as well as the history and folklore of her childhood home. Brianna’s films have premiered at national and international film festivals, including the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival. She was a quarterfinalist in the Outstanding Screenplay Competition for her feature film script POSTER CHILD, and her short of the same name premiered at the Closing Night Gala of SJIWFF, ahead of Fawzia Mirza’s THE QUEEN OF MY DREAMS. Brianna is the 2022 recipient of the RBC Michelle Jackson Emerging Filmmaker Award, an alumni of the WIDC Career Advancement Module, and a participant in the 2024 Whistler Film Festival Screenwriters Lab. She is a current resident of the Canadian Film Centre's Norman Jewison Screenwriters Lab.
Known for
Flight 487
Director
Black Hole
Director
Watermelon Social
Producer
Bounce
Production Assistant
Nasaan
Assistant Director
Terry
Producer
Poster Child
Director
And, Scene
Director
Fairyland
Director
Back to the Closet
Dancer
Filmography
- 2025Black HoleDirector
- 2025And, SceneDirector
- 2025Back to the ClosetDancer
- 2025NasaanAssistant Director
- 2024Watermelon SocialProducer
- 2024Don't Let Them InProducer
- 2024TerryProducer
- 2023If Not to DieAssociate Producer
- 2023Poster ChildDirector
- 2023First PositionScript Supervisor
- 2022BounceProduction Assistant
- 2022FishbowlProduction Assistant
- —SweetwaterDonna
- —FairylandDirector
- —Capture Your HeartDirector
- —Flight 487Director
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