Brayden Yoder

Brayden Yoder spent more than five years in Pune, Maharashtra at the Film & Television Institute of India, where he first learned to practice his craft in film direction. His thesis film, "Breakdown", has gained acceptance to several film festivals in the United States since its completion in May of 2013, and his previous film, "Stranger on a Train", gained acceptance to several festivals in India, Europe, and the United States, to include the River to River festival in Florence, Italy, the Oregon Independent Film Festival in Eugene, and the International Student Film Festival of Hollywood. Before moving to the subcontinent, Brayden lived in Sydney, Australia, where he studied screenwriting as part of a creative writing program at the University of Technology, Sydney. Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai’i, Brayden decided to pursue a career in film after first serving as a U.S. Army officer in Germany and Iraq, experiences he credits with exposing him to the wider world.