Filmmaker Bio + Contact
Brendan Prost is a former child actor from Calgary with an impassioned and eclectic body of work as a writer and director, spanning four no-budget features, a dozen short films, several music videos, and web series. His character-driven storytelling is distinguished by powerful performances, a unique tonal dualism, and a recurring focus on themes of alienation, longing, and vulnerability.
Brendan’s films have screened and won awards at major international and Oscar-qualifying film festivals, including the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Reykjavik International 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 work has also premiered on platforms such as Hulu, CBC, Omeleto, Directors Notes, and The Queer Network, where his short Loretta’s Flowers has amassed over three million views.
A graduate with distinction from Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts, Brendan is also an alumnus of the Canadian Film Centre’s Directors’ Lab and recently earned his Master of Fine Arts in Film and Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia.
When not creating his own work, Brendan teaches and mentors young directors at several film schools and colleges and performs improv comedy.
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.