This year, I participated in the Run N Gun 48-Hour Filmmaking Competition. My team made a grounded little dramatic comedy called Short-Term, Open to Long that will play with some other shorts at the Rio Theatre on June 22 at 6:30pm.

Come celebrate with us! Buy tickets online here.

My short film Fadeaway will have its Michigan Premiere at the Capital City Film Festival in Lansing during the “Pride in Motion” program. I’m very happy to returning to this excellent young festival that is always super well organized. If you’re in the neighbourhood, please check it out.

I am thrilled to announce that VIFF will be hosting a program of my short films and music videos to celebrate Canadian Film Day on April 15 @5pm.

The 90 minute program entitled Intimate Moments: Short Films by Brendan Prost will feature the Vancouver premiere of my newest short, Fadeaway, which recently won the Golden Egg at the Reykjavik International Film Festival. The full schedule includes:

• German Error Message – Hopelessness (2019, music video, 3 mins)\

• Loretta’s Flowers (2018, short drama, 16 mins)

• Bellingham (2019, short drama, 12 mins)

• Main Squeeze (2019, short dramatic comedy, 17 mins)

• Intermission / Q&A

• jordaan mason: no wires (2018, 3mins)

• The Morning After (2018, 6mins)

• Heavy Petting (2021, 17 min)

• Fadeaway (2025, 13 min)

• Q&A

In addition to this being an exciting opportunity to share my creative work with the community, I will also be filming the proceedings for my forthcoming feature-length hybrid documentary The Performance of a Lifetime. Please come be part of it!

Because it’s Canadian Film Day, tickets are free. Get them online in advance, or in-person on the day at the VIFF Box Office.

Fadeaway will have its Austrian Premiere at Queer Shorts Vienna in the “Queer Love” program. The film has also been nominated for Best International Short Film!

Fadeaway will have its Canadian premiere at the Chilliwack Independent Film Festival on Saturday October 25 at 3:30pm.

Fadeaway will have its American premiere at Flip the Script Flip the Script Queer Film Festival Film Festival in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Saturday October 4 at 3pm.

Vancouver’s beloved film co-op Cineworks will be hosting a screening and discussion of my short film Heavy Petting in celebration of its online premiere.

My short film Heavy Petting will be screening at the Chilliwack Independent Film Festival, where it has been nominated for three awards— Best Director, Best Script, and Best Short.

Thrilled to announce that Heavy Petting will have its European Premiere at the BIFA qualifying Manchester Film Festival in March.

We are part of Short Session 7 on Friday March 18th at 8pm at Odeon Great Northern.

My eerie queer character drama Heavy Petting will have its Canadian Premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival.

There will be two theatrical screenings:

• Saturday October 9 @6:30pm at the Annex

• Sunday October 10 @4pm at the Annex

The film will also be available digitally across Canada via VIFF Connect from October 1-11.

Ticket information and more is available at VIFF.org

My eerie queer character drama Heavy Petting will have its Canadian Premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival.

There will be two theatrical screenings:

• Saturday October 9 @6:30pm at the Annex

• Sunday October 10 @4pm at the Annex

The film will also be available digitally across Canada via VIFF Connect from October 1-11.

Ticket information and more is available at VIFF.org

My musical drama Getting There will be making a return to the big screen in my hometown thanks to the great people at the Calgary Folk Music Festival. The short film will play before a performance by Jess Knights.

Doors: 7 PM
Show: 8 PM

Tickets are $20 and on sale now! Click here

Jess Knights’ debut 2018 EP, Won’t Wait, captured the grit of the rooms – and the colourful denizens – that helped her find her voice. Revivalist soul and classic roots tones ripened the sound on her 2020 debut full-length album, Best Kind of Light. With assistance from award-winning producer Joshua Van Tassel and the crème de la crème of Canadian songsmiths and sidemen, including Donovan Woods and Joey Landreth, Best Kind of Light showcases Knights’ luminous voice and burgeoning song balladeer skills.

Getting There, a short film by Brendan Prost

Tanner, a passionate and single-minded mandolin player in a multi-instrumental folk band, struggles to drag his bandmates towards productivity and relevance at the risk of his own personal estrangement. But, after a disconcerting conversation with a famed singer-songwriter, Tanner takes a moment to pause and appreciate what he has already. Getting There is a vibrant, musical consideration of an artist's struggle to collaborate and keep things in perspective.

After a two year film festival journey, my queer character drama Loretta’s Flowers will have its online premiere via popular YouTube channel The Queer Network on Thursday June 4, when it will also be Film Shortage’s Daily Short Pick.

At 8pm EST, I will be joined by the whole cast for a livestream commentary and Q&A of the film on Facebook. In real time, we will be sharing our memories of the creative process, highlighting the work of our collaborators, and sharing insights into the film's soul. Afterward, we will have a casual conversation about the film for about 15-20 minutes. You are invited to participate throughout by posting comments and asking questions in the chat. I will do my best to facilitate and respond to everything.

Emotional Distancing is a short film program that reflects on feelings of loneliness, despair, and isolation-- before it was "trending".

Click here to join the livestream on Facebook.

Tune in for seven short films, with introductions and Q&As by the filmmakers. Ask questions, comment during the movie, and engage with us! We are hungry for connection, just like you, just like the characters in these films. All start times are approximate, and listed in Eastern Standard.

8pm - IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOUNTAIN (2017) - Two melancholy city dwellers seek to brighten their lives by escaping to a sublime mountain trail, but discover only darkness when they become lost and are subsumed by the long shadows of the landscape.
w/special guests: actors Julie Leung and Shane McLean

8:30pm - BELLINGHAM (2019) - At a moment of mutual desperation, two restless souls in different Northwest cities match online and meet up at a point of compromise. When they come face-to-face in the small town of Bellingham, they fail to connect, and are left to wander the coastline together— basking in the solace of their shared despair.
w/special guests: Arianna McGregor (actor), Andrew Lau (dop), Drew Redman (composer)

9pm - MYSTERY SURPRISE!
w/special guests

9:30pm - QUARANTINE VALENTINE (2020) - Featuring a remote cast of almost 40 people, this movie about being nice to yourself even when the order is tall.
w/Sydney Nicole Herauf

9:45pm - A WOMAN'S BLOCK (2018) - A woman recovering from a manic episode helps a neighbour out.
w/Rebecca Love

10:15pm - IT’S HIM (2017) - An unexpected encounter during an afternoon at the cinema catapults a young woman into a confrontation with her own grief, her parents' pain, and the still raw wound of her missing older brother. Over a single afternoon and evening, Shelby must sift the ground of memory, heartbreak, and hope, ever in search of a way forward.
w/Sophy Romvari

10:45pm - LET US END WITH IT TOO (2016) - A thoughtful exploration of a dying relationship told in four vignettes. When Sarah realizes that she may be falling out of love with her partner, she subsequently withdraws into herself in order to face her emotions and interpret them before acting on a potentially detonative thought.
w/Caisha Lea Thompson

My queer xmas comedy Main Squeeze plays at the Bloomington Pride Film Festival in Indiana with two other shorts.

Details at - https://bloomingtonpride.org/film

Tickets at - https://bctboxoffice.org/event/pride-film-festival

Loretta’s Flowers will be screening at Reelout— Kingston’s queer film festival— in a program of shorts called “Queer Intimacies” on February 6 at 8:15pm.

I am stoked to be sharing the screen with one of my filmmaking role models, Sarah Rotella, as well as a bunch of other cool folks.

If you’re in the Kingston area, come check things out! Details of the program at: https://www.reelout.com/event/queer-intimacies-shorts-program.

Ticket info at: https://www.reelout.com/festival-info/tickets-venues.

Main Squeeze plays for a second time at the Vancouver International Film Festival. We are part of a fantastic shorts program called To Live in Infamy.

I will be in attendance at this screening for Q&A, and so will actors Keshia Palm and Shane McLean.

Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased here.

My queer xmas comedy Main Squeeze has its World Premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival. We are part of a fantastic shorts program called To Live in Infamy.

I will be in attendance at this screening for Q&A.

Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased here.

My lyrical Pacific Northwest drama, Bellingham, will have its Washington premiere at the Local Sightings Film Festival as part of the shorts program “Duets”. This is a very special event, as we were actually shooting Bellingham while we were in Seattle for last year’s festival. I am so grateful to be able to return to show them what their invitation made possible!

Details about the shorts program is available here.

Tickets are on sale now here.