Filmmaker Bio + Contact
In the last decade, Brendan Prost has been quietly emerging as one of the most prolific young filmmakers in Canada, with an impassioned and eclectic body of work that includes four features and a dozen shorts. His character-driven work is characterized by powerful performances, a uniquely earnest spirit, and a thematic interest in alienation, longing, and vulnerability.
Brendan’s films have screened at major international and Oscar-qualifying film festivals like the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Rhode Island International Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival, Manchester Film Festival, Inside Out - Toronto LGBT Film Festival, and Telefilm Canada’s Not Short on Talent Program at Cannes. His notable broadcast and online premieres include Hulu, CBC, Omeleto, The Directors Notes, and The Queer Network where his short Loretta’s Flowers has more than three million views.
Brendan graduated with distinction from Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts, is an alumni of the Directors’ Lab at the Canadian Film Centre, and recently completed his Master of Fine Arts in Film and Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.
When not creating his own work, Brendan teaches and mentors young directors at several film schools and colleges.
Sad Sack Cinema Ltd.
Sad Sack Cinema is a film production company dedicated to kindling compassion for the estranged through the art of the moving image, owned and operated by writer, director, producer Brendan Prost.