Brad Champagne

Brad Champagne is a new wave style independent filmmaker living in Koreatown, Los Angeles. He hopes to help ignite a resurgence of new wave filmmaking in Los Angeles, embracing the concept of unconventional genre films like Godard's 'Breathless', and Wong Kar-Wai's 'Fallen Angels'. Like those filmmakers he doesn't pre-script his films as completed screenplays, instead preferring to write, shoot, and edit in a more nimble, or "agile", style that allows for greater spontaneity and a richer exploration of characters and themes. His cinematic philosophy orbits around the concept of freeing filmmaking from the assembly-line constraints of the industrial age the art form was birthed from. Brad first encountered the magic of filmmaking at the Boston Children's Museum, and the zoetropes that children were encouraged to create their own animation strips for. He would often draw light-saber battles between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, crudely rendered in crayon, and then watch in wonder as the images seemed to come alive before his eyes. Visual storytelling has been his passion ever since, and as a director he puts a premium on commanding the visual language of his films - taking pride in authoring camera movement, focal lengths, etc. Brad's 5 favorite filmmakers are: Wong Kar-Wai, George Lucas, Jean-Luc Godard, Steven Spielberg, and Akira Kurosawa. His favorite cinematographer is Christopher Doyle. 12/14/2017