
Director Brian Labrecque on set in
Seattle,WA circa 2005
Brian Labrecque is an avant-garde independent
filmmaker living in
Seattle, WA. He is known for his gender-bending
films such as 2004's "Far Too Gone", which tells the story of a
strange guy in Seattle who thinks he's
Tori Amos. 2006 saw the release of his short
film "Meeting Hillary", which told the story of two young witches
in a battle to the death. In 2007, sources say he will release
"Fear of Lemonade", said to be an epic mind-bending psychotronic
film about a shisha addict who is tormented by a Girl Scout from
Hell.
Self-taught and a devout follower of
John
Waters ,
Don Coscarelli and
Mike Judge, he never attended film school
and has never been to a writing workshop. He denounces formal film
school training as "emasculating" and "like trying to become
smarter by getting a lobotomy". His films have won critical acclaim
from film festivals as diverse as the Southside Film Festival in
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to Festival
Du Cinema De Bruxelles in
Brussels, Belgium.
Brian Labrecque is
also delving into the comic realm with a long-form graphic novel
adaptation of his unproduced script "Effing Brutal". The graphic
novel will be the first to feature a bonus CD with real-time voice
overs by the actors to be playing the roles when the film is
produced. The novel is being drawn by Harrison Wood and colored by
Jim Lamp.
Brian Labrecque often collaborates with Producers Eric
Scott, Gregory Wylie and Rebecca Pauline Frost.
This may or may
not be the same Brian Labrecque who's been making short films about
the Wicca faith driving people to use supposed jedi-like mind
powers to kill each other. He's not making many friends with the
real Witches.