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Portland, Oregon
BRIAN PADIAN is a writer/director based in Portland, Oregon. Brian holds an MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute, where he was awarded the Jack Oakie Memorial Scholarship for Comedic Screenwriting, and before that he studied filmmaking and theater arts at Humboldt State University.
My Projects
Projects I'm Supporting
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Cessation
Atlanta, Georgia• Film Short
Horror
After resorting to an illegal abortion, a pest control worker must exterminate the sinister presence growing inside of her.
This project got the green light!

Undercard
Portland, Oregon• Film Short
Action, Drama
A young college boxer is forced to make a crucial decision after an incident during a night practice.
This project got the green light!

Elegy For A Glacier
Colorado Springs, Colorado• Film Short
Drama, Shorts Program
The story of an estranged mother and daughter, and the dying glacier between them.
This project got the green light!

Screw City
Rockford, Illinois• Film Feature
Music, Teen
SCREW CITY is a feature film about Janie Turner, a teenager trying to escape her potentially unfulfilling life through her punk rock band.
This project got the green light!
Run Through It
Portland, Oregon• Film Short
Drama
Jazz visits her old family home for the last time.
This project got the green light!

Blackbird
Savannah, Georgia• Film Short
Drama
Two women at an Eating Disorder treatment center find common ground despite vast differences in background, personality, trauma, disorders.
This project got the green light!

Maine Noir
Waldoboro, Maine• Film Feature
Drama
A modern noir about a woman who discovers a lot of money hidden in the walls of the house she inherited. Problem is, someone wants it back.
This project got the green light!

Mildly Different (last phase prod. funding)
Maynooth, Ireland• Film Short
Drama, Other
A young woman on the autism spectrum who struggles with the world around her until the kindness of one person changes her life.
This project got the green light!
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Don't Die
Huntsville, Alabama• Film Feature
Crime, Thriller
Driven to steal life-saving medicine, a desperate man ends up on the run and at the mercy of a black market pharmacy.
This project got the green light!

Punched After The Fact
Portland, Oregon• Film Feature
Thriller, Romantic Comedy
An isolated janitor finds renewed meaning for life when he encounters fireball, rebel with a cause Haley in this darkly comic tale
This project got the green light!

Night Waking
Washington, District of Columbia• Film Short
Sci-Fi, LGBTQ
In a dark time, what does it mean to protect your children? A science fiction tale from the Rosenbaum siblings.
This project got the green light!

Crimson City
New York City, New York• Series
Comedy, Horror
A vampire hunter who flees to NYC to start escape her old life of killing the undead and accidentally kills a vampire on her first day in th
This project got the green light!

She Had It Coming
Los Angeles, California• Film Short
Comedy, Mystery
Demanded by the deceased, a seance takes place among a group of friends as the dead protagonist tries to work out which of them killed her.
This project got the green light!

My Own Mecca
Oakland, California• Film Short
Drama
Dre, an Oakland native, drops his friend off at a hotel. From there, he forced to contort his personality through different interactions.
This project got the green light!

Good Chemistry
Portland, Oregon• Film Short
Comedy, Science
An 80s homage for the 21st Century: Two science majors left alone on campus for Thanksgiving discover a place where they belong.
This project got the green light!

The Fire Cats
Santa Rosa, California• Film Feature
Documentary
After the California wildfires, hundreds of cats miraculously survived, but a few fiercely dedicated rescuers had to find them first.
This project got the green light!

Crowned: Season 2
Los Angeles, California• Series
Comedy
Macie and the rest of the Party Princesses survive batty bosses, pushy parents and crazy co-workers in this semi-scripted comedy series.
This project got the green light!

Los Angeless
Los Angeles, California• Series
Comedy, Drama
Los Angeless is an anthology series made up of 9 short films by 15 female filmmakers, set in an authentic, unromanticized version of L.A.
This project got the green light!

Hawks Ridge
Richmond, Virginia• Film Feature
Drama, Thriller
A grieving ex-pastor ponders whether to save the life of the man who killed his wife.
This project got the green light!

63 Miles Away
Portland, Oregon• Film Short
Drama
Stuck in a dying suburban town, young siblings spend their days alone, planning for a better life they naively believe is within reach.
This project got the green light!

The Great Divide
Denver, Colorado• Film Feature
Thriller, Western
In 1879 Colorado, a destitute ranch heiress must seek restitution by joining forces with the dangerous outlaws who murdered her father.
This project got the green light!

Winning
Los Angeles, California• Film Feature
Comedy
Four people and a talking cat think they’re the lone survivors of a nuclear apocalypse, until Ivanka Pump shows up...
This project got the green light!

When Skies Are Gray
New York City, New York• Film Short
Drama, Experimental
An unlikely pair of world-weary souls help one another reignite their sense of wonder.
This project got the green light!

Dirt Is Soil
Oakland, California• Film Feature
Drama, Experimental
When the creative rich meet the creative poor, what do they make together?
This project got the green light!
Future Therapy
Los Angeles, California• Series
Comedy
Therapy in the year 2038 when dates are virtual reality, babies are gene edited, Alexa is now a fully functioning robot.
This project got the green light!

Low in the Water
Los Angeles, California• Film Short
Thriller
Clay retreats to the woods to fight his inner demons only to find them ever-lurking just below the surface.
This project got the green light!

Trace
Denver, Colorado• Film Short
Drama, Horror
A woman preserves home videos in an obsessive attempt to bring her estranged daughter back home.
This project got the green light!
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Regret
New Orleans, Louisiana• Film Short
Drama, LGBTQ
A successful farmer who takes in a friend's children reckons with what being an out lesbian in her struggling Cajun community has cost her.
This project got the green light!

Ray and Roy
Middletown, Connecticut• Film Short
Drama, Family
The guilt-ridden daughter of an ex-jazz pianist helps her father move on from the suicide of his brother.
This project got the green light!

Eagle Rock
Bozeman, Montana• Film Short
Drama, Crime
A young woman in prison for murder reflects on what led her to the crime, the cult she was a part of and her relationship with its leader.
This project got the green light!

Dance of the Porcelain Demons
London, United Kingdom• Film Short
Fantasy, Horror
Sometimes we fight our demons, sometimes we dance with them...
This project got the green light!

Normativity
Boston, Massachusetts• Series
Drama, LGBTQ
Stories about women and the differences that make them unique and the similarities that give them commonality.
This project got the green light!

Another Period in Time
Atlanta, Georgia• Series
Comedy, Drama
A free black woman from 1863 wakes up in 2018 ATL & meets an entitled millennial. Can she get home or learn to love avocado toast & selfies?
This project got the green light!

The Trespasser
Middletown, Connecticut• Film Short
Drama, Thriller
Following the suicide of her mentally ill father, a young black girl sets out to destroy the one object she believes led him to his death
This project got the green light!

Reddy Records: A Short Film
New York City, New York• Film Short
Drama, Music
Reddy Records is a musical fantasia about memory, jazz, and finding yourself with or without your parent's love.
This project got the green light!

LOVE BUGS: A Senior Thesis Film
Middletown, Connecticut• Film Short
Comedy, Family
Teenage Lu must eradicate a pest infestation in her beloved squash garden while avoiding her neurotic mother, who is quickly unhinging as sh
This project got the green light!

Bella, Citizen Artist
Los Angeles, California• Film Feature
Documentary
A film about the life, work, influence and impact of California-based choreographer/dancer/artist Bella Lewitzky.
This project got the green light!

Those Who Roam
Chicago, Illinois• Film Short
Drama
After a mass disappearance has claimed loved ones, a surprising encounter leads two young females on a journey to find people and answers.
This project got the green light!

The Last Day of School
Minneapolis, Minnesota• Film Short
Drama, Shorts Program
Two boys and two futures, hanging in the balance between an act of kindness and a mother's misguided love.
This project got the green light!
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Search History
Los Angeles, California• Film Short
Comedy
In the search of her Korean family’s history, Grace sends her grandma’s DNA to 23+Me and unravels a huge family secret...a Japanese uncle!
This project got the green light!

Frankenstealth
Union, New Jersey• Film Short
Animation, Family
The coolest daddy-daughter relationship is put to the test when an urgent project spirals out of control.
This project got the green light!
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Proud
San Jose, California• Film Short
Drama, Shorts Program
An Asian American learns to become proud of her Korean heritage while trying to discover her identity as an American.
This project got the green light!

Dead Winter
Atlanta, Georgia• Film Short
Drama, Horror
In a post-apocalyptic South, a young woman must decide whether to fight for her family's survival -- or leave them behind.
This project got the green light!

Sister/Brother
Portland, Oregon• Film Feature
Comedy, Drama
Nora, a broke actress, and her younger brother Scotty drive from Portland to Seattle so she can attend a dinner hosted by her wealthy ex.
This project got the green light!
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Anatomy of Wings
Baltimore, Maryland• Film Feature
Documentary, Global Celebration
A young mentor from East Baltimore seeks to understand how ten teenage girls are feeling courage toward their circumstances.
This project got the green light!

Between the Moon and You
Los Angeles, California• Film Feature
Comedy, Drama
A young couple's sweet romance spirals into chaos as the two fall out of love and struggle to keep a grip on reality.
This project got the green light!

Beyond the Shadows
Sedro-Woolley, Washington• Film Feature
Horror, Comedy
A ghost hunter with his band of misfits explore the paranormal activity of massacred Native American spirits at the Chetco River Lodge.
This project got the green light!

Jacob's Brother
Lake Charles, Louisiana• Film Feature
Comedy, Drama
A comedian with bipolar disorder must learn to balance his ambitions with managing his condition or risk losing his family, career, & sanity
This project got the green light!

Oniphron
Portland, Oregon• Film Feature
Drama, Fantasy
A tale about a homeless immortal woman taken in by a Portlander.
This project got the green light!

BABYDOLL
Austin, Texas• Film Feature
Comedy, Drama
A failed musician and a stubborn teenager make a pact to drive across Texas to retrieve his stolen guitar and meet her long lost father.
This project got the green light!

I Don't Live Today
New York City, New York• Film Feature
Drama, Experimental
On his last night in NYC, a struggling Black painter wanders the streets cutting off all ties he has to the morally hypocritical art world.
This project got the green light!

Parkway of Broken Dreams
Las Vegas, Nevada• Film Feature
Documentary
In the 1990s, Las Vegas counterculture boomed along one road: Maryland Parkway. But by the end of the decade, the whole scene vanished.
This project got the green light!

Birthright?!
Miami, Florida• Film Feature
Documentary
A journey into the tropically surreal identities of Miami's favorite hyphenated American musical duo, Afrobeta.
This project got the green light!

What She Said
Flint Hill, Virginia• Film Feature
Drama, Family
Sam's sure the best way to face her trauma is alone on her family's farm. Her brother's sure she's wrong. A Thanksgiving intervention movie.
This project got the green light!
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The Bachelorette Party
Orcas, Washington• Film Feature
Comedy, Horror
Six girlfriends go to a remote island for a bachelorette party, where they go from fighting off bad hangovers to fighting for their lives.
This project got the green light!

Hudson
Syracuse, New York• Film Feature
Comedy, Drama
Hudson is a dramedy about two distant cousins that take a trip in an old Volvo to scatter one of their late mother's ashes.
This project got the green light!

White Crow
Los Angeles, California• Film Feature
Mystery, Thriller
A sickly young woman's life unravels when she receives a heart transplant and begins to take on her donor's personality traits.
This project got the green light!

THEY WHO SURROUND US
Los Angeles, California• Film Feature
Drama
A farmer follows a voice deep into the woods enabling him to see his wife one last time.
This project got the green light!

Disfluency
Commerce Charter Township, Michigan• Film Feature
Drama, Comedy
Jane spends the summer after college at her family's lake house where she continues to cope with PTSD after date rape.
This project got the green light!

Inbetween Girl
Galveston, Texas• Film Feature
Comedy, Teen
This project got the green light!

Broker 2
New York, United States• Film Feature
Comedy, Thriller
A small-town serial killer moves from his usual hunting grounds to the Big Apple, where he finds it hard to adjust to city living.
This project got the green light!
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Duncan
Austin, Texas• Film Feature
Crime, Satire
A young black journalist & an angry alt-right militiaman team up to uncover a child trafficking ring hidden in a pizzeria's basement.
This project got the green light!

Thunderbolt In Mine Eye
Portland, Oregon• Film Feature
Drama, Teen
Two young neighbors embark on a first love relationship in which they struggle to remain kids amid the complexities of modern adolescence.
This project got the green light!

In the Shadow of the Valley
Klamath Falls, Oregon• Film Feature
Film-Noir, Thriller
When mysterious forces threaten the family and church of a rural pastor, he's forced to play detective to unravel a disturbing mystery.
This project got the green light!

Endless Light
Fairbanks, Alaska• Film Feature
Drama, Sci-Fi
Returning home, a bipolar woman attempts to decipher her brother's suicide through occult intervention with Alaska's wilderness.
This project got the green light!

Brown Town
McAllen, Texas• Film Feature
Musical, Romantic Comedy
A loner beat boxer finds family in her college's South Asian acapella team.
This project got the green light!

America Inc. Prelude: Theory Of Mind
Portland, Oregon• Film Short
Action, Sci-Fi
In a world controlled by corporations. A small group of dissidents tries to break free of company control.
This project got the green light!

Ellipsis
New Orleans, Louisiana• Film Short
Comedy, Drama
Each consumed with indecision, two women help each other find some sort of clarity in a brief chance meeting.
This project got the green light!

Brown With Blue
Atlanta, Georgia• Film Short
Drama, Romance
A handyman & his girlfriend struggle with substance abuse to cope with their problems.
This project got the green light!

Big Girl
New York City, New York• Series
Comedy
A plus-size woman in NYC navigates our size-obsessed culture with cynical humor and unapologetic self-love.
This project got the green light!

Passion & Progress
Lakeland, Florida• Series
Documentary
When people of color set out an ambitious goal to reach their highest potential, only to be faced with societal barriers.
This project got the green light!
The Vth Column
Los Angeles, California• Series
Horror, Sci-Fi
Horror/Scifi series. Episode 1. A couple flees from a stranger, who refused to let them out of his car, after hitching a ride.
This project got the green light!

Blossom
Los Angeles, California• Film Feature
Documentary
Transgender entertainer/activist Blossom C. Brown finds answers to her troubled past while aspiring a career in the entertainment industry.
This project got the green light!

Uneasy The Show
Oakland, California• Series
Comedy, Drama
Two brown girls take on student loans, MFA drama, & techie jargon in Oakland: home of the Black Panthers & now, $3000 one bedroom apartments
This project got the green light!

Established
Los Angeles, California• Series
Comedy, Drama
After losing their car and savings, two lovers fight to build a life in LA while enduring the changes of an unstable industry.
This project got the green light!

I Friggin Love you
Los Angeles, California• Series
Drama, Romantic Comedy
Love can make you or break you.
This project got the green light!

Pink
Los Angeles, California• Series
Drama
As narcotics hit Washington DC hard in 1987, four young girls are forced to provide and protect as their parents lose to the drug game.
This project got the green light!

Curls For Humanity
Chicago, Illinois• Series
Comedy, Other
After living a carefree lavish existence in Los Angeles, biracial sisters are forced to migrate to Chicago where they explore their racial i
This project got the green light!
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Hatched
New York City, New York• Film Short
Drama
After a recent personal loss, one woman's grief turns to obsession as she searches for clues about missing children in a national forest.
This project got the green light!

My Summer as a Goth - Final Post Production Funding
Portland, Oregon• Film Feature
Drama, Teen
Sometimes you need to go to the dark side to see the light.
This project got the green light!

Chasing Fletcher Allen (Formerly Stalking LeVar)
Los Angeles, California• Film Short
Comedy, Romantic Comedy
One woman's story in finding a balance between the external things that she believes she needs with the internal answers that she's been avo
This project got the green light!
Cherry Picking
Los Angeles, California• Film Short
Comedy, Drama
A bride questions if waiting until marriage to have sex was the right choice, voicing concern to her very sexually active female cousins.
This project got the green light!

Messy The Web Series
New York City, New York• Series
Comedy, Romance
A web series about love, marriage, separation, kids, and dating all under one happy roof! I swear this will not make you cry!
This project got the green light!

The Apple Tree
Portland, Oregon• Film Feature
Drama, LGBTQ
A closeted high school football player is forced to volunteer at a retirement community after getting in trouble with the law, where he form
This project got the green light!

One Bird at a Time
Portland, Oregon• Series
Comedy, Drama
When do-gooder and lovable neurotic Julie strives to save the neediest and the craziest in the world, she has to start in her own backyard.
This project got the green light!

In the Blue Hour
New York City, New York• Company
Drama, Experimental
What are we supposed to make of a life? A perfect hostess invites her friends to attend one last party - and you are invited!
This project got the green light!

Escaping Freedom
Portland, Oregon• Film Feature
Drama, LGBTQ
A doubting pastor must question everything he believes when his free-spirited sister challenges his view of what being free truly means.
This project got the green light!
Parallel Chords
St. Louis, Missouri• Film Feature
Drama, Music
A young violinist struggles to break free from her pianist father to find her own voice.
This project got the green light!

Lost Bayou
Lafayette, Louisiana• Film Feature
Drama, Family
A struggling addict ventures out into the Louisiana swamp to discover that her estranged faith healer father is hiding a troubling secret.
This project got the green light!

A Room Full of Nothing
Austin, Texas• Film Feature
Adventure, Romance
In this Swiss Army Man meets Eternal Sunshine adventure an artistic couple's life takes a bizarre turn when they wake up alone in the world.
This project got the green light!

The Atavist
Pittsfield, Berkshire County• Film Feature
Adventure, Sci-Fi
A young woman travels to the past, but when the things she leaves alter history, she must get them back to save the future.
This project got the green light!

Rich Kids
Houston, Texas• Film Feature
Drama
A group of Latino teens in a poor community break into Los Ricos, a local mansion, to forget their difficult lives and live a different one.
This project got the green light!

Clementine
Portland, Oregon• Film Feature
Drama, LGBTQ
A heartbroken woman stows away to her estranged lover's lake house where she becomes entangled with a teenage girl.
This project got the green light!

What Lies West
Santa Rosa, California• Film Feature
Drama, Teen
Just out of college, Nicolette takes a job babysitting an anti-social teen with a desperate desire for adventure.
This project got the green light!

Hide and Seek
Washington, District of Columbia• Film Short
Drama, Sci-Fi
An indie rock musician turned stay-at-home dad makes an impulsive wish, propelling him into an alternate reality.
This project got the green light!

The Benefits of Gusbandry
Portland, Oregon• Series
Comedy, LGBTQ
Love is so gay. One Woman, One Man, a lot of weed, a little crying and NO sexual attraction whatsoever. "Hilarious, irreverent.." - OUT.com
This project got the green light!

Half the Picture
Los Angeles, California• Film Feature
Documentary
HALF THE PICTURE is a feature documentary about working women directors in Hollywood.
This project got the green light!

F*ck Yes Series
Los Angeles, California• Series
Romance, Comedy
F*ck Yes! is what affirmative consent sounds like. Sex made hotter. SoSFW (sort of Safe For Work.)
This project got the green light!

Film Festival Secrets 2.0
Atlanta, Georgia
Film-related Business, Filmmaker Resource
Join the community that will shape the next edition of this practical guide to film festivals.
This project got the green light!

Auld Lang Syne
Los Angeles, California• Film Feature
Comedy, Drama
An annual New Year’s Eve party becomes occasion for disaster as three couples' lives unravel spectacularly over the course of the evening.
This project got the green light!

Rewind: Play
Portland, Oregon• Film Feature
Documentary
Playful exploration of adults who enjoy the simplicity of childhood revelry amidst grown-up pressure
This project got the green light!

Arcadia Bay
Portland, Oregon• Film Short
Mystery, Sci-Fi
A pair of military scientists discover they are living inside a simulation and set out to learn why.
This project got the green light!

Seed&Spark's Seed&Spark!
New York City, New York
Other
It's not about fundraising, it's about filmmaking! Join the movement to shape the future of film.
This project got the green light!