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Brianna Russell
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 folk…
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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.
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2025
Black Hole
Movie Director
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2025
And, Scene
Movie Director
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2025
Back to the Closet
Movie Dancer
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2025
Nasaan
Movie Assistant Director
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2024
Watermelon Social
Movie Producer
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2024
Don't Let Them In
Movie Producer
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2024
Terry
Movie Producer
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2023
Fairyland
Movie Director
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2023
If Not to Die
Movie Associate Producer
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2023
Poster Child
Movie Writer
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2023
First Position
Movie Script Supervisor
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2022
Bounce
Movie Production Assistant
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2022
Fishbowl
Movie Production Assistant
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Flight 487
Movie Director
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Sweetwater
Movie Donna
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Capture Your Heart
Movie Director
