The Directors
Brian Ulrich
Brian co-owns Brotherhood Studios Inc. with his wife and producing partner, Julianna, where he has written, directed, and produced over twenty commercials, a feature film (Last Three Days, 2020), multiple short films, and documentaries, as well as 2nd Unit Directing stunts and action on other projects.
Brian loves inviting others into the collaborative process of filmmaking and working with teams to tell compelling stories to move audiences. He specializes in action and adventure stories and looks for opportunities to share his passion for storytelling with others.
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BT Allen
After graduating from San Diego State University’s Film Program, Director BT Allen started directing music videos where he developed his cinematic sensibilities and honed his ability to tell captivating stories. Since then, BT has directed content across the gamut including short films, web series, branded-content and an interactive series for Facebook. He is passionate about telling stories in the sci-fi / horror genre and is currently prepping his feature debut from his own script, which placed in a variety of competitions including, the Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship and Final Draft’s Big Break.
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Cate Fogarty
Infusing bold and unique life experiences into every story she tells, Cate believes humor is the key to survival and she’s passionate about telling messy, female-driven stories that balance the darkness with light. What doesn’t kill you makes you laugh, eventually.
Chosen as the Lead Fellow in Blackmagic Collective’s 2021 First Frame Initiative, Cate has finely honed her intuitive directing style and approaches every project with deep empathy and versatile communication.
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Dedi Felman
Dedi Felman is a writer/director born and raised in the wilds of NJ. A member of the inaugural class of the HBO Access Writing Fellowship, she attended the UCLA Professional Program in Screenwriting and teaches TV writing for Script Anatomy. Previously, Dedi worked in publishing as a senior editor at Simon & Schuster. Her espionage drama short, Allegiance, was a finalist at the USA Film Festival and voted a Kickstarter “Project We Love”. Her short film, DOG4Life, was a finalist for best comedy short film at the Austin Revolution Film Festival. She is currently in development on two features, American Holler, a heist movie, and a contained sci-fi drama, The Immortalists.
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Jeff Perreca
He a developed a TV Show with Blumhouse TV and Jennifer Lopez’s Nuyorican Productions. His pilot Graphic was named as a finalist in the trackingb.com TV Script Contest and the Grand Prize Winner of the WeScreenplay TV Contest. He co-wrote a feature that was named to the 2018 Hit List. That same year he was also named to the Young and Hungry list. In 2019, Jeff made his directorial debut with the short film, Talentless. It was named a winner of Stage32’s Short film contest, and debuted at Dances with Films. It also played in academy-qualifying festivals like HollyShorts and Raindance. Jeff was selected as a directing fellow for Blackmagic Collective’s First Frame Initiative. Most recently, he was named a fellow in Blackmagic Collective’s Directing Actors Lab.
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Monique Sorgen
Raised in an international hippie house in San Francisco, Monique Sorgen is an award-winning comedy writer-director, in the Sony Television Directors Program and the Blackmagic Collective Filmmaker Advancement Initiative. Her dark comedy, Sorry, Not Sorry amassed over 100,000 views and 4000 likes in its first month on the prestigious Omeleto.com and won Best of Omeleto. Her new short Rock A Bye Baby won comedy awards at Sedona, All The Laughs, and Just For Laughs. She previously directed branded reality series, more shorts, and music videos that were acquired by the Disney Channel. As a writer, she has developed with Imagine, DiNovi, USA/UCP, Morgan Freeman’s Revelations, and David Oyelowo’s Yoruba Saxon, among others. She began her career as a director’s assistant, shadowing on network television shows for 3 years. Since then she has shadowed with Lesli Linka Glatter, Pamela Fryman, and Michael Spiller. Her most recent work is a sitcom based on her unconventional family, starring sock puppets.
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Paula Rhodes
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Stacy Singh
After moving to LA and directing projects on a freelance basis, she was told by an actor that it was their, ‘best work on camera’. Seeing how in depth she could affect someone sparked her interest to focus on narrative directing. She directs with an acting eye. She tells stories in gratifying ways, she enjoys manipulating comedic scenes and exploring the Sci-fi genre. She is patient and will find what people need to activate their inspiration and freedom. Love of performance mixed with a defined style of cinematography is the course that she’s been on since.
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The Actors
Anastasia Washington
You can find Anastasia making bold content like her award winning shorts, What are you? that focuses on the dreaded question every mixed person is asked, and He Said, She Said which tackled sexual assault. During the pandemic alone she produced, wrote and starred in her One Woman Show that Played at the Black Voices Festival and Solo Fest, 50 Shades of Mixed: Confessions of your Ethnically Ambiguous Best Friend and a web series called Disordered.
Featured in Stand Up Festivals including Burbank Comedy Festival and Black Woman in Comedy as well as Called Out by Elizabeth Bank’s WhoHAHA.
Her content takes on subjects like Police Brutality, Eating Disorders, Color-ism, and more while infusing humor and love to truly start those hard conversations from a more receptive place. She strives to take those difficult topics and make the big changes needed through creative expressions. Just take the time she went to a Neo Nazi Birthday Party and was denied cake, flash forward to Cake Wednesday (the weekly Holiday she made up) to re-narrate a trauma and celebrate life’s small and big wins every week.
What’s next for Anastasia?
She will continue to produce her podcasts about Pop Culture from a BIPOC point of view, True Crime, Reality TV, Paranormal and History. Be at that Stand up grind while writing a Self Help book for those with a sense of humor and getting her Comedy Special and Album up and out to the masses. She has written a few pilots focusing on family dynamics and growing up in the industry, and naturally also werewolves. She is also is working on feature films that discuss color-ism, discrimination and true crime, all through horror and comedy. I’d tell you who she’s like, but, as Rocket Racoon says, “Ain’t no thing like me, except me.”
Anastasia has the privilege to be a member of SAG/AFTRA, AWD, WIF, and WOC Unite.
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Christine Weatherup
Weatherup can be seen on a number of television series, including HBO’s acclaimed series Watchmen, Westworld, Grey’s Anatomy, and Mad Men. In the indie film world, she’s enjoyed leading roles in films such as Bread and Butter (The Orchard), opposite Bobby Moynihan and Lauren Lapkus, and Echo Lake (Gravitas).
In addition to acting, Weatherup produces, writes, and directs. She produced and acted in the award-winning webseries Squaresville, which has garnered millions of views and was featured in Entertainment Weekly’s “The Must List”. Weatherup traveled the country with her short film, Killed in Action, playing in over twenty festivals and winning several awards. Her feature film debut as an actor/writer/director, See You Next Christmas, won the Humor and Humanity Award at the 2021 Heartland Film Festival and was acquired by Giant Pictures.
Weatherup is currently in development on her next feature, Into the Fog. The script has received attention as a semi-finalist for the Sundance Labs, a quarter-finalist in the Austin Film Festival, Screencraft, and Final Draft’s Big Break competition, and was recently awarded the MNFF Franklin Film Development grant.
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Elizabeth Southard
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Harleen Quinzel
Harleen Quinzel has been acting since the age of two when she appeared in the film Dead Girl and uttered “I love you” for the first time ever on screen. Since then she has been seen in award-winning series and movies including, Pretty: The Series, Pubert, and Love or War. Her starring role in Soledad, which premiered at Disney Studios, garnered her several awards. She is also a singer/songwriter. Her first single, Possessed, won Shockfest’s best single of the year.
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John L. Curtis
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Kayla Marie Coates
Kayla Marie Coates is a gender fluid Hispanic-Croatian-American actor, filmmaker and activist who seeks out roles of rebellious teenagers who appear confident and charismatic, yet under the surface are dealing with deep internal strife. As a neurodivergent, polyamorous, queer individual, they are passionate about creating work that depicts stories centering around underrepresented communities so that topics, often not told at all, will be discussed and destigmatized. Kayla helped create and became the Initiative Director of BMC’s Emerging Actors Diversity Initiative and they were recently chosen as a fellow for BMC’s Filmmaker Advancement Initiative. They have starred in numerous indie projects and soon-to-be-released films and webseries. Working their first year at the 2021 Universal Halloween Horror Nights, they won the award for Scare Actor of the Year. Kayla was selected to receive NALIP’s Emerging Content Creators Inclusion Initiative Scholarship for the 2021 Diverse Women in Media Forum and to participate in Mentorship Rountables. In March 2022, they were hired as a Producer for South by Southwest working with high profile celebrities like Greg Daniels, Jason Sudeikis, Chelsea Clinton, Brian Eno and many more. They are ramping up into pre-production for their directorial debut which they wrote, are producing and starring in.
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Patrick Gorman
He believes we need to stay focused and aware at all times to make the most of this life, to connect and be in the moment. As serious as all this sounds, balance is necessary, humor invaluable, and to go a step further, a sense of the ridiculous is the sublime. His motto is, it’s always now and it’s never too late.
With a background in musical comedy, eight years in the military, a stint as a clown at the famed Cirque Medrano in Paris where he lived and worked for six years, have left their mark. The Japanese martial art aikido, Japanese calligraphy and the Japanese language are a constant preoccupation. The process of polishing the spirit as in Zen swordsmanship applies to the actor’s and writer’s craft as well, in his view.
He has played a wide range of roles; Martin Hatch (the ‘heavenly prosecutor’) in the political satire film, George Bush Goes to Heaven. He was in the first season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Before that, Henry IV in the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival production of Henry IV, Pt. One, The Hostage, Brendan Behan’s Ovation nominated play at the Alliance Repertory Theatre. Long before that, he was the only American in the Broadway-equivalent of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, in Paris, France. Before his military service, he danced with Judy Garland on Broadway and Donald O’Connor and Sammy Davis, Jr., in Vegas. He has appeared in television, film and stage in France before appearing in Joseph Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival. He spent time in such prestigious repertory companies as the Seattle Repertory, Act (San Francisco) and Actor’s Theatre Louisville. Some on screen credits include Happy Days, And the Band Played On, The Drew Carey Show, Ghost Whisperer, NCIS:LA and Avengers: Endgame.
One secret to a satisfying life has got to be taking one thing at a time and always learning something new. Continued training in martial arts, acting and learning the screenwriter’s craft keep him on his toes. Storytelling and the parallels of these disciplines are abundantly clear.
Languages are a fascination and along with speaking French, he’s always trying to learn more German, Spanish and even Danish. He coaches young actors and returning veterans in his spare time, and poker and chess are definitely passions, right along with Japanese calligraphy and the Foreign Film Committee for The Oscars. He’s also on the Executive Committee for the Student Academy Awards.
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Jaimes Timas
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