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Brennan Vance is a director and cinematographer whose work has been featured on HBO, PBS, NBC, and Starz and at such film festivals as SXSW, Tribeca, Slamdance, and Full Frame. Vance has worked commercially with a wide range of brands such as Balenciaga, Under Armour, Organic Valley, and Target. His upcoming cinematography projects include Cecilia Aldarondo’s You Were My First Boyfriend (premiering on HBO in 2023) and Norah Shapiro’s Magic & Monsters. His feature-length directorial debut, The Missing Sun, was released in 2018 and earned him a McKinght Media Fellowship.
Feature film that I directed and DP'd. After a solar flare powers down her remote community, Alma discovers her husband Terry comatose. Suspecting he is having an out-of-body affair with an ex-lover, Alma attempts to bring him back to reality with help from Terry's estranged, drug-addled son and the leader of a new-age religion that specializes in astral travel.
Produced for The Perennial Plate
Premiered PBS Independent Lens 2022 At 27, Kelsey Peterson dove into Lake Superior as a dancer and emerged paralyzed. But within the spinal cord injury (SCI) community, she found allies in her quest to discover who she is now and to dance with disability. When a cutting-edge trial surfaces, it tests her expectations of a possible cure. She finds herself both scared it might not work—and scared that it might.
Releasing on HBO MAX in November 2023 World Premiere at SXSW 2023 What if you could rewrite your adolescence? In this high school reunion movie turned inside out, filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo embarks on a fantastical quest to reconcile her tortured teen years. She ‘goes back’ in more ways than one, tracking down old foes and friends while also reenacting visceral memories of youthful humiliation and desire. Oscillating between present and past, hallucination and reality, "You Were My First Boyfriend" is a hybrid documentary that explores the power of adolescent fantasy, the subtle violence of cultural assimilation, and the fun house mirror of time’s passage.
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