Brandi Self

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

Los Angeles, California

Member Since:
March 2012

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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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Cul-de-Sac Trailer (short film - horror/comedy)

An Audio Production of My Short Script, Cul-de-Sac Performed by Sound of Scripts!

Loglines

Swell (Feature) - AVAILABLE 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) - AVAILABLE 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) - AVAILABLE Budget: $0 - $100K | Fantasy ⋄ Drama A nervous bride-to-be receives devastating news from her fiancé after getting some last-minute adjustments made to her wedding gown.
Cubicle Jockeys (Short) - AVAILABLE Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy An anxious employee organizes a strike after a series of stress-related deaths takes out his co-workers and his boss pees on his shoe.
Three for Tea (Short) - AVAILABLE Budget: $0 - $100K | Comedy ⋄ Horror After dying in a high pursuit car chase, a brash woman finds that she has become one of three imaginary friends of 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.
Don't Call Me Sir (Short) - AVAILABLE Budget: $0 - $100K | Mystery ⋄ Fantasy Two soldiers discuss love and freedom as they hide in the trenches from murderous, fire-shooting giants who have already claimed the lives of their comrades.
Bargain Store (Short) - AVAILABLE 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) - PRODUCED Budget: $0 - $100K | Horror ⋄ Comedy 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.
Capturing Annabelle (Feature) - AVAILABLE Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy ⋄ Thriller A sculptor obsessed with his psychotic ex-girlfriend rallies a group of women to portray her so he won’t lose his creative edge but grows concerned when one of her replacements begins an entanglement with her.
Juvé (Feature) - AVAILABLE Sci-fi ⋄ Comedy An aging actress is fitted with a device that revitalizes her career by making her appear young but piques the interest of terrifying rivals, creating a real-life soap opera filmed by paparazzi drones.
The Antagonist (Short) - AVAILABLE Budget: $0 - $100K | Fantasy ⋄ Comedy An offbeat writer is put on trial for the murders of the characters in his new novel.
Brown Bottle Flu (Short) - AVAILABLE Budget: $0 - $100K | Fantasy ⋄ Drama A frustrated writer struggles to work while being belittled by a belligerent drunk woman who wants to relive the past.
Sinkhole (Feature) - AVAILABLE Comedy ⋄ Romance A self-centered goofball fed up with life with his girlfriend decides to get a pool instead of 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) - AVAILABLE SOON Fantasy ⋄ Romance In a close-minded 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) - AVAILABLE Sci-fi ⋄ Comedy A couple caught up in the whirlwind of technology check into their sublet only to find they can’t connect.
Quandary (Short) - AVAILABLE 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) - UNDER OPTION 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

Cul-de-Sac (2022 - 2023)
Film (short) by Thespian Films Writer A couple of city dwellers move to the suburbs and are bombarded by their hyperactive neighbours who aggressively try to get them to try a strange, new health product.
Mabel (2022)
Film (short) by Thai Vuong (Drama) Writer A depressed young man struggles to keep up with his girlfriend who keeps disappearing at the most inopportune times.
Bargain Store (2022)
Film (short) by Robert Sebastian Webb (Drama) Writer A disgruntled small-town bargain store worker meets a soldier who encourages her to stand up to her perverted boss.
Deconstructing Val (2021)
Film (short) by Zooleey Productions (Comedy and Drama) Writer The three lives of a queer, Brazilian transplant merge to avenge the character that was lost in a brutal rape.
Deconstructing Val (2021)
Film (short) by Zooleey Productions (Comedy and Drama) Director The three lives of a queer, Brazilian transplant merge to avenge the character that was lost in a brutal rape.
Strayed (2019)
Film (short) by John Hewell (Drama) Writer A little girl spots her mother stuffing a suspicious bag into a trash bin soon after her dog goes missing.
The Custom Mary (2011)
Film by H770 Films Key Set Production Assistant The story of The Custom Mary involves two preachers and a scientist, who discover two drops of Jesus Christ's blood. They use this material to clone Christ and to impregnate the young Mary with Christ's DNA. Along the way, Mary becomes involved with a lowrider mechanic named Joe, but their relationship is tested when Mary's pregnancy does not go as planned. Mary undergoes a transformation of faith, while finding new relationships on the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles.
Aces 'N' Eights (2007 - 2008)
Film by Larry Levinson Productions Production Assistant Already taking a gamble settling in the uncharted west, the peaceful settlers of a town destined for railroad greatness suddenly find themselves being ruthlessly gunned down. With no law and order to be found, justice falls onto the shoulders of an elderly rancher and an accomplished but retired gunslinger.