UPCOMING PROJECTS &
SAMPLE WORK
Do Fish Go To Heaven, 2025
Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Writer
Micro-short film
Available to view upon request
A man takes his dying fish to see the ocean while contemplating life and death.
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Winner of the Best Micro-Short Award at the NY Long Island Film Festival.
Co-Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Short film, Coming of Age
Two sisters visit their family home for one night. They are forced to confront their estranged relationship while waiting for their father to arrive.
A Place For Ashes is an award-winning film and Brianne's professional directorial debut. The film was accepted into the Long Island International Film Expo, the NY Lift-Off Film Festival, and the NY Long Island Film Festival. It won the Audience Choice Award during the 2023 NY Lift-Off festival, and Brianne was nominated for Best Director at the NYLIFF.
Featuring four filmmakers who picked up the Audience Choice Award from the New York Lift-Off Film Festival: Directing duo Brianne Neira and Melissa Ingle behind A Place For Ashes, director Malcolm Carter of COMPANY OF PROPHETS, and Douglas Corcoran director of Midwest Ice Age!
We discuss each film while they screen muted in the background, delving deep into the lessons learned by each artist as they tackled their award-winning projects.
Rotten Meat, 2021
Editor / Dir. Rebekah Strauss
Short film, Feminist Horror
After undergoing an extensive plastic surgery makeover at the suggestion of her former lover/surgeon, Carmen now lives with a botched, off-putting appearance that has only worsened her self-image. She attempts to reconnect with Adrian over dinner, but her plan for seduction slowly deteriorates into a primal hunger for self-preservation.
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