Bryan Bakker

Bryan Bakker has over thirty years of experience writing and producing films for consumers, businesses and the corporate sector. Informing his productions are a plethora of past vocations from farming, to construction, to manufacturing to service provider and union steward. Since, he’s had films screened in international film festivals, won video contests for clients (one with as a prize of over ten thousand US dollars) produced two local Rogers TV Shows and worked on local international events for Tourism London including directing and editing the 2013 international Figure Skating Championship legacy video. He has produced video content for several local media companies including "Elgin Update" for 'The Weekly News' in St. Thomas and client content for 'Municipal World' on an ongoing basis. In 2003 he won the nomination to run as a candidate in an Ontario provincial election and in 2013 and 2014 he created and ran an internationally successful horror fantasy festival called The St. Thomas Tom Zombie Festival. In 2011 He founded Bizbio and in 2019 Blue Food Films.

SCREENINGS & AWARDS
Wrote, directed & edited, " Parody", which has received the following recognitions:
A finalist at the 2021 JellyFEST Film Festival.
Screened at the 2020 Toronto Lift-off Film Festival.
A semi-finalist at the 2020 Dumbo Film Festival.
Honourable mention award at the One-Reeler Short Film Competition.
Official Selection in the 2019 Toronto Lift-off Online Festival.
Screened at the 2019 Toronto Shorts International Film Festival.

Wrote, directed & edited, “Home of the Best Hummers”, which has received the following recognitions:
Finalist in the 2020 Forest City Film Festival
Merit Award at the 2020 WRPN.TV Short, Tight and Loose Global Film Festival Competition.
An official selection at the 2020 Toronto Short Film Channel Festival.
An official selection at the 2020 Toronto Lift-off Film Festival.
An official selection at the 2020 New York Lift-off Film Festival.
An official selection at the 2020 Lift-off Global Network.
An official selection in the 2020 Los Angeles Lift-off Film Festival.
An official selection in the 2020 Amsterdam Lift-off Film Festival.
An official selection in the 2020 Paris Lift-off Film Festival.

Wrote, directed & edited, “Out of the Box”, which has received the following recognitions:
An official selection in the 2020 San Francisco Another Hole in the Head Film Festival
Best Short Film Winner in the 2020 4th Dimension International Film Festival
An official selection in the 2020 Mr. Holehead’s Warped Dimension Film Festival
Finalist in the 2020 Forest City Film Festival.
An official selection in the 2020 Los Angeles Lift-off Film Festival.
An official selection in the 2020 Paris Lift-off Film Festival Film Festival
An official selection in the 2020 Amsterdam Lift-off Film Festival Film Festival
An official selection in the 2020 Los Angeles Lift-off Film Festival Film Festival

Wrote, directed & edited, “The Emptynesters Gang”, which has received the following recognitions:
A semi-finalist in the 2020 “Night of Comedy Shorts” Film Festival
An official selection in the 2020 “International Shorts” Film Festival
An official selection in the 2020 “New York Lift-off Film Festival” Film Festival
An official selection in the 2020 “Paris Lift-off Film Festival” Film Festival

SCREENWRITING RECOGNITIONS

Wrote a feature film screenplay entitled "Local Curse" which has received the following recognitions:
Award winner in the 2020 SoCal Film Awards
Official Selection in the 2020 Diabolical Horror Film Festival.
Official Selection in the 2020 UK Film Festival.
Semi-finalist in the 2020 Forest City Film Festival Screenplay Contest
Quarter-finalist in the 2020 Creative World Awards Screenwriting Competition.
Official selection in the 2020 HorrorHaus Film Festival.
Selected as a semi-finalist in the 2020 Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival.
Official Selection in the 2020 Austin Revolution Film Festival.
Nominated in the best screenplay category of the 2020 Toronto Independent Film Awards.
Quarter finalist in the 2020 StoryPros Screenplay Contest.
Official selection in the 2020 Horror: Genre Lab - Lift-Off Global Network.

Wrote a feature film screenplay entitled "Glory Everlasting" which has received the following recognitions:
Award winner in the Fantasy/Sci-Fi Film & Screenplay Festival
Selected as a finalist in the 2020 StoryPros Screenplay Contest.
Selected to be included in the 2020 Sci-Fi & Fantasy: Genre Lab - Presented by Lift-Off Global Network.

Wrote a short film screenplay entitled "Not Batman" which has received the following recognitions:
Official Selection in the 2020 UK Film Festival.