Brenda Whitehall

Brenda Whitehall is an award-winning, independent filmmaker based in Vancouver, Canada. Her production company Whitehall Entertainment Incorporated has spearheaded several projects including short films, animations, music videos and documentaries. Whitehall also created and co-produced a popular all-women mainstage play at the 2015 Vancouver Fringe Festival called Saturn Returns, receiving public and critical acclaim. In 2017, Whitehall co-wrote and executive produced the short drama The Curtain, which screened in several countries, in four languages, and won more than a dozen international film festival awards. The following year, she wrote, directed and executive produced the award-winning short drama Little Oliver, which screened at the Mediterranean Film Festival in Cannes, France. Lead actor Angela Galanopoulos also received a prestigious Leo Award nomination in 2019 for her performance. In 2019, Whitehall wrote and executive produced a groundbreaking short drama And Now This? about Canada's medical assistance in dying program. She also wrote, produced and directed a music video, Meant for Something More, to raise awareness of trans teen suicide, airing on OutTV and available on YouTube. Whitehall was undergoing cancer treatments in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and helped lead her producing team to finish the LGBTQ2S+ short drama Falling In - virtually. It has gone on to screen and win several awards at international film festivals. In 2021, Whitehall co-directed and co-produced The Stepmom, a short drama based on an award-winning play by Keara Barnes. She is collaborating with the same production team for a short dance-themed film called Harbour, which she is co-directing, scheduled for a 2022 release. Whitehall has several projects in development, including Rebecca's Ring, an Irish romantic comedy optioned by British-Canadian, Oscar-nominated director Jonathan Tammuz (Rupert's Land), as well as several short films. With the support of Canada Council for the Arts and CreativeBC-Rogers Media, Whitehall is also working on a documentary passion project to highlight the accomplishments of Canadian women winter Olympic and Paralympic champions as told by an all-female-identifying and non-binary filmmaking team. It's scheduled for release in 2023.