Andrew Giannetta: Writer, Director, Producer and Cinematographer
Andrew received his B.A. in Film & Video Production from the
University of Maryland in 1989 and relocated to Los Angeles in 1991. He
has since dedicated his 17-year career to exploring the key creative
disciplines while establishing himself within the independent and
studio production communities.
Since moving up to Director of Photography in 2000, he has logged
credits on 14 feature films, 22 episodes of television, 12 music
videos, 13 commercials and numerous other projects. His most recent
D.P. work includes the feature films Good Sharma starring Joan Allen,
and Dead in the Head starring Branded Raw Films partner Brad Milne.
Andrew's producing experience started with Unit Production Manager and
Assistant Director duties on the 1997 film Inside/Out by
writer-director Rob Tregenza. Inside/Out was executive produced by film
icon Jean Luc Goddard and screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Andrew
has served as Associate Producer- D.P. on the feature Dead in the Head,
and as Co-Producer-D.P. on several music videos. Andrew has
successfully filled the multiple positions of
Writer-Director-Producer-D.P. on nearly a dozen regional commercials
and two music videos.
Andrew co-founded Branded Raw Films with partner Brad Milne in 2007.
Andrew's most recent credit as Writer-Director-Producer-D.P. is for two
commercial spots for local software retailer Buy Cheap Software.
Andrew is a member of International Cinematographers' Guild and the Directors' Guild of America.
Brad Milne: Actor, Producer, Writer and Acting Coach
Henry Ward Beecher said every good artist must "dip his brush in his
own soul." It is because of actor Brad Milne’s ability to draw on his
vivid imagination and personal experience to shape complex, interesting
characters that he experienced immediate success and has been in more
than 140 projects: film, television, theatre, commercials,
infomercials, industrials, and webisodes. Acting was an obvious choice
for the introspective, extroverted Milne, who began his acting career
in Toronto in 1991 where he studied acting with a variety of top U.S.
and Canadian coaches for five intensive years. During those early years
he worked consistently doing commercials, industrials, TV episodics,
and feature films. Brad resides in Los Angeles.
On the acting front, Brad just played, Robert Hums, a lead in Discovery Channel's upcoming special I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant - Wake Up Call airing this June. And is currently leading the cast of the The Izzy
Legit Story as Izzy Mendelov the lovable inexorably cheap guy that
constantly gets into trouble. Earlier this year he played Dr. Chushfeld
a biotech billionaire with ruthless intentions in the SONY / Production
HQ horror-comedy Zombie Strippers starring Robert Englund and Jenna
Jameson, his second feature for Production HQ. Recently he shot the
psychological thriller REM with Big Brain Pictures in Phoenix, playing
the role of Kemeo, a twisted, edgy main-player. Last fall he played
quirky bounty hunter / action hero Demon Jones in Dead in the Head. In
his first Production HQ feature The Slaughter he plays Carl Stevens, a
greedy real estate speculator. The Slaughter received awards at many
festivals including Best Picture, Rhode Island Film Festival 2006, 2nd
Best Picture, Salem Independent Film Festival 2006, Bronze Audience
Award, Another Hole In The Head Film Festival 2006. All four feature
films are set to be released in 2007.
Brad is a co-founder of Branded Raw Films. The launch project, two
buycheapsoftware.com commercials for their test advertising campaign.
Branded Raw has also developed
The Izzy Legit Story.
In 1997, he pursued the acting career in L.A. and drawn by family needs
in 1999, he moved to Texas to raise his daughter. While in Texas, he
continued acting, landing critically acclaimed leading theatre roles in
Dinner With Friends, (Gabe) for which he received the ATAC Globe Award
for Excellence Lead Actor Drama, The Hairy Ape (Yank), Angels In
America (Louis), Dark Horse Pale Rider (Cristobal), Of Mice & Men
(George), and The Laramie Project (multiple characters) which received
the ATAC Globe Award for Excellence Best Production Drama. Brad also
worked on TV projects, industrials, commercials, and worked as an
acting coach, with a client base of more than 200 students.
In March 2005, he returned to L.A. and has been busy with over 45
projects since June 2005, ranging from features films, to one hour TV special, TV pilot
presentations, commercials, infomercials, webisodes, and industrials. Brad also
continues actor coaching privately and with his summer boot-camps.
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