Brandi Self

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3198832/
Screenwriter

Los Angeles, California

Member Since:
March 2012

Last online:
2 weeks ago

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About Brandi

I create surreal, carefully constructed stories that dissect love, morality, oppression, identity crises, alienation and stagnation by catapulting characters into absurd, almost comically juxtaposed worlds where they must use self-examination as a tool for escape and redemption.

Unique traits: I can eat a sandwich right side up or upside down and get a different taste each time.

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Swell (Feature) Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Fantasy A dejected teenager struggles to escape her off-kilter family whose lives are filled with atomic bomb drills, oppressive rules, and addiction in 1950s suburbia.
A Happy Life (short) Budget: $0 - $100K | Romance ⋄ Drama A gay man begins to question his relationship with his husband after an especially trying visit with his homophobic father.
Bride to Be (short) - Optioned Budget: $0 - $100K | Fantasy ⋄ Drama An anxious bride-to-be gets some last-minute adjustments made to her wedding gown.
Cubicle Jockeys (short) Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama ⋄ Comedy An anxious employee organizes a strike after a series of stress-related deaths take out his co-workers and his boss pees on his shoe.
Three for Tea (short) Budget: $0 - $100K | Mystery ⋄ Comedy After dying in a high pursuit car chase, a brash woman finds that she has become one of three imaginary friends to a seven-year-old girl.
Deconstructing Val (short) - Produced Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama ⋄ Comedy The three lives of a queer, Brazilian transplant merge to avenge the character that was lost in a brutal rape.
Bargain Store (Short) - Optioned Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama ⋄ Fantasy A disgruntled small-town bargain store worker meets a soldier who encourages her to stand up to her perverted boss.
Mabel (Short) - Produced Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama ⋄ Fantasy A depressed young man struggles to keep up with his girlfriend who keeps disappearing at the most inopportune times.
Cul-de-sac (Short) - Optioned Budget: $0 - $100K | Horror ⋄ Fantasy A couple of city dwellers move to the suburbs and are bombarded by their hyperactive neighbors who aggressively try to get them to try a strange, new health product.
Sinkhole (Feature) Comedy ⋄ Fantasy A hapless, well-meaning buffoon begins to question his small-town life and decides to get a pool over fixing the house, resulting in him falling through a sinkhole into another dimension where things are deceivingly better.
The Descending Dichotomy of Stephen Peters (Feature) Adventure ⋄ Drama ⋄ Fantasy In a small town where romance is forbidden, a lonely bookworm and a strangely intrepid woman find sanctuary in a cave; but when a man all the way in New York has a breakdown, the couple is forced to make a decision between love and their own existence.
The Apartment (Short) Mystery ⋄ Fantasy A couple caught up in the whirlwind of technology check into their sublet only to find they can’t connect.
Quandary (Short) Thriller ⋄ Fantasy A thirty year old slacker wakes up in an unfamiliar house and assumes it’s another drunken one-night stand, until he discovers that the others trapped in the house don’t know how they got there either.
Day Care (Short) Budget: $0 - $100K | Fantasy ⋄ Drama A cantankerous toddler learns about love, death, and loss when he visits daycare for the first time.
Strayed (Short) - Produced Drama A sullen little girl spots her mother stuffing a suspicious bag into a trash bin soon after her dog goes missing.

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Credits

Mabel (2022)
Film (short) by Thai Vuong Writer
Bargain Store (2022)
Film (short) by Robert Sebastian Webb Writer
Deconstructing Val (2021)
Film (short) by Zooleey Productions (Comedy and Drama) Writer
Deconstructing Val (2021)
Film (short) by Zooleey Productions (Comedy and Drama) Director
Strayed (2019)
Film (short) by John Hewell Writer