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Brent Morris has been a line producer or production manager on over forty film and television projects. Line producer credits include Monster, featuring Charlize Theron’s Oscar-winning performance, Rob Zombie's horror film The Devil's Rejects, Sundance award-winner Smoke Signals, Beer for My Horses, The Only Thrill and LA Without A Map. In 2011 he served as the line producer for the Dutch feature Jackie starring Holly Hunter, the northern New Mexico-set thriller Blaze You Out, the local portion of the French film Just Like a Woman and Chris Neil’s Goats, which premiered at Sundance.

Unit production manager credits include Lemonade Mouth for the Disney Channel, the 20th Century Fox comedy Kung Pow! Enter the Fist, MGM's Deadly Impact, Hide Away, Shiloh Season and The Grand.

Brent produced Alan Jacobs' American Gun, which featured James Coburn’s final film performance and Tony Cookson’s romantic comedy Love Happens. In 2007, after moving from Los Angeles to New Mexico, he formed Indieproduction, LLC to develop new projects. The most recent of these is the documentary Made in New Mexico about the impact of film and television on the state. In 2010, he co-produced and directed Flamenco School, an inside look at Albuquerque’s National Institute of Flamenco which won the New Mexico Filmmakers’ Showcase for documentary. Short form projects produced include PSA's for the New Mexico anti-DWI campaign, Myth UFO: Roswell Incident and Beauty Bend, a short documentary on neon art.

After receiving a B.A. in theater arts at UCLA, Brent founded the ensemble group Rough Theater where he wrote, produced, directed and performed in a number of original plays. Simultaneously, he entered the film industry as a story analyst and associate producer, then began a freelance production career in 1993.

Brent is a member of the Directors Guild of America. When not working on films, he consults with filmmakers on budgets, schedules and locations, and has taught workshops in production since 2002 at the Maine Media Workshops and elsewhere.

Location:
United States, Albuquerque, NM
Current organization:
Indieproduction, LLC
Current role:
Producer - Director
Gender:
Male
Areas of expertise:
Film - Directing, Producing, Writing, Editing, Project Managament, Workshops & Training
I am:
Concerned citizen, Consultant, Educator/Teacher, Filmmaker, Parent, Producer, Project manager, Promoter, Single, Writer/Editor
Associations:
Directors Guild of America :DGA, IFP
Languages:
English
My website links:
indieproduction
Universities:
UCLA
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I'm passionate about

Inspiring and raising consciousness through film and media, being a better parent, preserving the natural environment and doing all can to ensure a livable future for my children and their generation.

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Independent film, documentaries, New Mexico, raising kids, moving through and beyond separation and divorce.

People don't know that I'm good at

After spending most of my career facilitating creative work in others I'm working on exercising those muscles again through making documentaries and creative writing.

My TED Story

I was introduced to TED via a writer and futurist I follow, James Howard Kunstler. This year, looking for inspiration, I joined the TEDxABQ book club started by Carrie Williar, and it has been a great introduction to the wisdom of TED speakers and willingness to share good ideas.

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  • A comment on Conversation: What are some strategies for implementing the TED spirit on a local level?

    Jun 10 2012: I recommend a TED book club. My friend in Albuquerque, Carrie Williar, runs one where we read a book a month by a TED speaker. It is a springboard for deeper exploration of the concepts these speakers present, and a conduit for like-minded people to meet and discuss ideas.

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