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Richard is a Dublin, Ireland born director and editor. With a love of horror, it was obvious the choice for his first feature film would be a romcom; 2013's The O’Briens, which appeared in festivals worldwide. In early 2012, along with producer Alison Scarff and fellow filmmaker Michael McCudden, Richard co-founded the production company Weird Pretty Pictures, producing the mystery-thriller Sodium Party, followed by his second feature film as director; In A Stranger’s House. Off the back of that film's success, Weird Pretty Pictures produced the Ireland-set horror Bring Out The Fear, which has finally creeped its way into the world following its own battle with Covid. Aside from directing and editing for TV, Richard is a keen dog-lover, babying his King Charles Cavalier, as well as finding his Alsatian and Lurcher/Wolfhound the bestest boys. Richard also dabbles in soundtrack-esque music and enjoys trying to scare himself with whatever horror films he can find.

Brendan is an award-winning writer and director. After running around Camden with a camera shooting local bands music videos, he thought the only way to make a dent into the professional world of promo directing was to write the music as well. He got a guitar, learnt to play, a year later his band won the biggest battle of the bands in the world and the music video he directed got nominated for a UK MVA. Soon after he was signed to a production company and spent a few years directing music videos.

He suddenly realised the reason he picked up a camera in the first place was to make films, proper films.

He then began writing his first short film 'Roger', proof of concept for a feature film. He shot Roger in 2016 staring John Bradley' (Game of Thrones) and comedian Seann Walsh, it then went on to be screened at over fifty film festivals around the world, many BAFTA and Academy award qualifying, it was nominated and won various awards.

His focus is creating worlds and characters different form normality, but highlighting human misgivings. His ideas are sometime weird, sometimes dark, but always fun and entertaining.

Brendan has since directed 'The Dead Collectors' starring Ivan Kaye (Vikings, Bubblegum Milkshake) and Elliot Langridge (Northern Soul), 'Living Next Door to Alex' starring Tom Bell (The Mash Report) and Richard Rycroft (Game of Thrones), 'The Lawnmower Men', 'Coldplay' and 'The Wrong Swipe', all screening at festivals worldwide.

He is currently in postproduction for his latest short 'Sam and Doug' a zombie thriller starring Craig Charles (Red Dwarf) and Karla Langly (Call the Midwife, Carnival Row).

The feature film script for the ‘Roger’ feature film got to the semifinal of every major screenplay competition in the world, and was featured on the Hollywood Blacklist websites 'Top Comedy scripts'.

Brendan is currently attached to direct his first feature film shooting in the UK in early 2022.

Felipe Martinez Carbonell is an award winning director, producer, writer, and editor born on October 21, 1990 in Rosario, Argentina. His first short film "Llantos" (translated as "Tears" in English) was selected by FEISAL (Federation of Schools of Image and Sound of Latin America) to be screened across the entire region of Latin America. His second short film Momento (translated as "Moment" in English), which he wrote, directed, edited, and produced, won Best Short Film at the Latin American Film Festival in Rosario, Argentina.

In 2014, Felipe moved to California to study film where he enrolled in and then graduated from UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) In Los Angeles, he had the opportunity to produce content for Defiant Pictures with some of the world's greatest talent including Shirley MacLaine, Jessica Lange, Demi Moore, Hillary Duff, and others. Besides work in film, Felipe has also enjoyed the opportunity to direct, produce, write and edit advertising campaigns for companies such as the ad agency Acento Advertising and health care company Banner Health in the United States.

Currently, Felipe is busy running his production company, Hemisferio Films. They have finished production on their most recent short film, "Imaginary Portrait", which has already received attention & acclaim from various news, media sources, and film festivals from Latin America and abroad (Grimmfest in Manchester UK, Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre, & Fantaspoa in Brasil). Now, Felipe is working on his debut horror feature film.

www.felipemartinezcarbonell.com