Brandon Harris Wraps Up Sophomore Film (Exclusive)
Exclusive: Brandon Harris, a filmmaker and executive who co-founded a production company I was watching this with Judas and the Black Messiah Director Shaka King has completed production on his sophomore feature film, new hell, In which he also plays the lead role.
Hailing from Marginal Mediaworks, in association with Forensic Films and The Group Entertainment, the project is described as a picaresque Los Angeles set centered around a once-prominent left-wing podcaster, who struggles to break into comedy after seeing his hosts get canceled or embraced by the burgeoning New Right. He’s lost his home to the Los Angeles fires and his sanity to the many byproducts of fame, jumping from the bedrooms, couches and tents of numerous friends, enemies and ex-wives, eventually finding himself at the Malibu Health Center where perhaps something more sinister than bug juices is going on.
The film stars a multi-hyphenate director and actor including Andre Hyland (Fourth), Annapurna Sriram (Damn games), and Jim Cummings (Thunder Road) alongside Evan Louison, who co-wrote the picture with Harris. Rounding out the cast are Ari Thompson (Keeping up with the Joneses), Betsy Holt (Jules of light and darkness), David Cole (Small furniture), Frank Mosley (Color source), Leonora Bates (For all humanity), and Will Janowitz (The soprano).
Harris produced the independent film alongside Jane West and Max Mooney. Executive producers include Sanjay M. Sharma and Milan Chakraborty of Marginal MediaWorks (I learned love), Scott Macaulay from Forensic Films (What happened was…) and Jill Holland of The Group Entertainment (Hurricane Streets).
“We are long-time fans of Brandon and jumped at the opportunity to help support this exciting, culturally urgent and timely independent feature,” said Sharma, founder and CEO of Marginal. “Brandon is a lover of subcultures and has created something in the tradition of John Cassavetes or Lars von Trier, mixed with the modern drive, wit and wit of Ruben Östlund. The entire cast, crew and wider production team that he and his main producers Jane and Max have put together are first class, so we were excited to offer our support.”
“I first met a lot of our team members from earlier aspects of my career and it was great to bring them together for this very unusual and timely film,” Harris said. “Our producers include people I had recently hired out of film school and people I taught while helping with the same film program, as well as friends I first met as a journalist and programmer, or in the case of our wonderful partners at Marginal, when I was an executive at Amazon.”
He was previously a development executive at Amazon Studios, where he oversaw productions such as Mastered and Peepers And acquisitions such as Blow the guy down and time, Harris made his directorial debut with the 2012 drama Red legs He also wrote the book previously Make rent in Bed-Stuy. He is represented by Andre De Rocher of Grandson De Rocher, Derek Ibitch of Empirical Evidence, and Matt McGowan of Francis Goldin Agency.
Fringe was also represented by André Des Rochers.