Brent Ryan Green is an award-winning film director

Film director

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 from Oklahoma City

Oklahoma city

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, Oklahoma

Oklahoma

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, United States

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.

Career

Green began his film career in 2004 working on the feature film

Feature film

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 End of the Spear

End of the Spear

End of the Spear is a 2006 docudrama film that recounts the story of Operation Auca, in which five American Christian missionaries attempted to evangelize the Huaorani people of the jungle of Ecuador...

. His professional career has taken him to different corners of the world including Africa

Africa

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, Panama

Panama

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, India

India

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, Colombia

Colombia

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, Japan

Japan

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, Ecuador

Ecuador

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, Israel

Israel

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, and the West Bank

West Bank

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, where he has captured film footage, as well as still photography. Green served as a producer

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

 on the feature length documentaries

Documentary film

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 The Grandfathers and Little Town of Bethlehem. He has since directed and produced many short films and music video

Music video

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s. One of his latest music video projects was "You Told A Lie", which was released on Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day

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 of 2011, and won Best Music Video at the 2011 California

California

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 International Shorts Film Festival

Film festival

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, Best Music Video at the Indie Gathering International Film Festival, the Award of Merit at Best Shorts awards, and an Honorable Mention at the LA

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 Movie Awards. Brent also spoke at Harvard

Harvard University

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's Negotiation and Leadership Conference of 2011.

In January 2009, Green founded Toy Gun Films

Toy Gun Films

Toy Gun Films is a production company that is in the process of developing a diverse slate of art house films. The company believes that just like a toy gun is a weapon of imagination, film is a weapon of imagination that has the power to transform hearts and minds...

  with Jeff Goldberg and produced the short film En Tus Manos in Colombia, which also won a slew of awards including Best Short Film at the 10th International Beverly Hills Film Festival, the Los Angeles International Film Festival, and two other film festivals. In addition, En Tus Manos participated as an Official Selection in eighteen other internationally renowned festivals, including its premiere at Cartagena Intl. Film Festival, Los Angeles Latino Intl. Film Festival, Newport Beach

Newport Beach, California

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 Intl. Film Festival, HBO’s NY

New York

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 Latino Film Festival, and Rhode Island

Rhode Island

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 Intl. Film Festival. Furthermore, over 6 million people in Latin America have screened En Tus Manos through its alternative distribution partnership with One Hope.

In 2010, Green directed and produced his narrative-directing debut Paper Flower

Paper Flower (film)

Paper Flower is a short narrative film by Toy Gun Films that premiered internationally in Tokyo in February 2011. Following Paper Flower’s international premiere, the short film premiered domestically in the U.S. at the Beverly Hills Film Festival on April 8, 2011...

, a Japanese coming-of-age

Coming-of-age film

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 short film shot entirely in Tokyo

Tokyo

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, Japan. The film premiered at the Beverly Hills Film Festival in April of 2011. Since its premiere, Paper Flower has been an official selection in twenty film festivals and won eight awards, including Best Short Film and the Audience Choice Award at the Mosaic Film Festival, and the Awards of Merit for Direction and Short Film at the Indie Fest.

Presently, Green serves as a Principal of Toy Gun Films, where a short film to be shot in South Africa

South Africa

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 and Russia

Russia

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 is in pre-production

Pre-production

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. , their films have been officially selected for forty-six film festivals and have won twenty-three awards.

Awards

Paper Flower:

• 1st Place/ Best Short Film - Mosaic Film Festival
• Audience Choice Award - Mosaic Film Festival
• Award of Merit in Short Film - The Indie Fest
• Award of Merit in Direction - The Indie Fest
• 4th Place - Indie Gathering International Film Festival
• Best Spiritual - Breckenridge Film Festival
• Award of Merit in Short Film - Accolade Competition
• Audience Choice Award - Film Festival of Colorado
• Honorable Mention - SoCal Film Festival
• Award of Merit - WILLi Fest

En Tus Manos:

• Best Short Film - Beverly Hills Film Festival
• Best Actor- Beverly Hills Film Festival
• Best Short Film - Los Angeles International Film Festival
• Best Director - Los Angeles International Film Festival
• Best Female Actress - Los Angeles International Film Festival
• Best Supporting Actor - Los Angeles International Film Festival
• Best Short Film - San Diego Christian Film Festival
• Best Short Film- Spirit Quest Film Festival

"You Told A Lie":

• Best Music Video - California International Short Film Festival
• Best Music Video - Indie Gathering International Film Festival
• Award of Merit - Best Shorts
• Honorable Mention- Los Angeles Movie Awards

Press

• OK Gazette “Paper Flower Debuts with Free Public Screening”
• NewsOK “Short Film to Premiere Saturday”
• NewsOK “Oklahoma City Premiere of Short Film set for Saturday” by Brandy McDonnell
• NewsOK"Local Production Company Films in Tokyo" with Angi Bruss
• Red Dirt Chronicles "Shot Seen Around the World"
• Norman Transcript “Local Film Company Champions Moral Courage”
• Daily Oklahoman “Filmmaker from Oklahoma Finds his own Stories”
• Noticias Oklahoma “La película En Tus Manos se estrena en la ciudad”
• El Heraldo "Colombiano, el mejor actor en Festival de Cine de Beverly Hills"
• One Hope "Beverly Hills Film Festival Winner Will be Shown in S. American Schools and Prisons"

External links

• Production Company Website