Entries on various film projects: features, shorts and documentaries.
Chronicles Simpkins Fundraising Video from Brendan Hughes on Vimeo. Starting in November, I’ll be directing two short films by Rolin Jones. Adam O’Byrne is producing. After only six years in Los Angeles I’m finally getting this bird off the ground. The video above depicts the intertwining biographies of Adam, Rolin and myself. We’ve started an Indiegogo [...]
Posted by Brendan on October 17, 2012
http://www.brendanhughes.com/im-directing-two-short-films-by-rolin-jones/
Damn you act one! Break, damn it. My head is rammed firmly into the entrails of what will ultimately be the third draft. Hopefully in time for the anniversary of the first draft, for those of you keeping score at home. Describing the below to Emily, she said if I were an economist I would [...]
Posted by Brendan on March 24, 2012
http://www.brendanhughes.com/what-would-hegel-do/
I’m trying to make this story have more inevitability. Working from the end, I am identifying each payoff (or potential payoff) and determining where to pepper the set-ups and builds. Yesterday, this pattern emerged. Many pieces of yellow, college-ruled paper gave their lives for this graph. The story elements column has been redacted. If for [...]
Posted by Brendan on March 8, 2012
http://www.brendanhughes.com/character-growth-is-a-palindrome/
My screenplay was selected as a finalist in the Oaxaca Film Festival this November. I couldn’t be more thrilled. Oaxaca has meant a lot to people I love for years. I knew one day I’d go and now I have the best reason in the world! As part of the application, I needed to submit [...]
Posted by Brendan on August 18, 2011
http://www.brendanhughes.com/november-in-oaxaca/
Marion Friedman is one of my favorite people. She and I were roommates at Yale in my final year, and on Saturdays — when it was time to clean the apartment — she would announce the “gettin’ it done montage,” put on music, and we would scrub like we were on page 62 of a [...]
Posted by Brendan on May 2, 2011
http://www.brendanhughes.com/the-getting-it-done-montage/
This is a little presentation I created for my brother’s wedding in 2007. I came across the video file last night and thought I’d present an encore showing.
Posted by Brendan on April 6, 2011
http://www.brendanhughes.com/dave-loves-fran/
I’m at the gate. I won a contest put on by the IFP Script to Screen Conference in which I had to submit a 25 word pitch. 5 were selected, including mine, to be presented to a panel of acquisition executives on Saturday morning in New York City. I have 3 minutes to give them [...]
Posted by Brendan on March 4, 2011
http://www.brendanhughes.com/my-first-pitch/
