Goodbye Casey Trade
14min, Sony F55
Tired of her self-involved parents and continuous bullying at school, fourteen-year-old oddball Casey Trade decides to carry out a fantasy with help from a fellow outcast.
Director: Amanda Brennan
Writer: Amanda Brennan
Producer: Hugo Kenzo
Co-Producers: Lisa Kelly, Zenas Cao
Director of Photography: Marc Katz
Editors: Orlando Javier Torres
Composer: Simon Taufique
Sound Design: Ryan Billia
Production Design: Madeline Wall
Cast: Chloe T. Roe, Bartek Szymanski, Lani Harms, Doug Willen, Amy Bodnar
Email: amanda.c.brennan@gmail.com
Phone: (617) 817 6021
About the Writer/Director
Amanda Brennan is currently a graduate student at Columbia University’s School of the Arts with a concentration in Directing and Screenwriting. She received her BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, graduating with distinction. She was the recipient of the Lila Chalpin Creative Writing Award.
Amanda has written and directed several shorts of her own including Undertaken, Girls, Little Heaven and So It Goes (written by Lucy Brydon). During her time at Columbia, Amanda has been the writer on several projects including: Penelope Chase (dir. Marisa Medina), Inner Demons (dir. Fernando Frias), Shadowboxer (dir. Daniel Nickson) and Sweet Honey Child (dir. and co-writer Talibah Newman).
Prior to her relocation to New York, Amanda worked in the New England area on a number of projects ranging from low-budget indies to Hollywood feature films, from commercials to television. She is currently a member of IATSE and the New York Women in Film and Television. She plans to continue writing and developing her own material with the goal of directing feature-length films. Amanda’s interests lie in stories that explore adolescence and the idea of family. She likes to blur the line between reality and fantasy, fact and fiction, comedy and drama.
About the Producer
Sushi, samba and a passion for film are the ingredients that were put into the pot that originated Hugo Kenzo. Born in Brazil in 1986 from Japanese origins, he decided he wanted to make films after watching Steven Spielberg’s E.T. Like the little creature in the film, Hugo wants to touch people’s hearts and change people’s minds when it comes to prejudice and injustice, on and off-screen, by telling stories of and collaborating with people who fit into the minority groups of society.
In 2011, after 8 years working in the film and TV industry in Brazil, Hugo decided to pursue his MFA in Creative Producing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. So far, his work has been screened in LGBT festivals around the world, including Brazil, Canada, India, Germany, Ecuador, Ireland and the US, and most recently his short Sweet Honey Child, directed by Talibah Newman, has been selected to air on HBO Go.
