Brian Karl

Brian Karl

Screenwriter

San Francisco, California

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March 2018
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About Brian

Specializing in history-based dramas, experimental film and documentaries, some of my screenplays and films have been official selections of the New York Film Festival, the Oaxaca International Film Festival, the San Francisco Film Festival and the Rome Independent Prisma Awards.

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  • Cybersyn: The Computer and the Socialist

    Cybersyn: The Computer and the Socialist Historical Drawn from historical events, Cybersyn: The Computer and the Socialist is a political drama centered on a radical techno-initiative in Chile in the early 1970s. Launched during the socialist revolution led by Salvador Allende, the Cybersyn project was an early attempt to use computer-based systems to better manage the output of the nationalized industries of Chile. Peak moments of action in the story include the successful maneuvers by the Cybersyn team around a transport blockade against the government, fascist street gangs’ violent assaults on leftists as part of an ongoing political conflicts as well as the Chilean military’s attacks on the Presidential Palace during the coup that led to Allende’s overthrow and death along with the imprisonment and exile of most Cybersyn principals.

  • Local Gangs

    Local Gangs Drama Visionary, hack, or scammer? Melton Barker was an itinerate filmmaker who, between the 1930s and 1970s, produced, directed, and screened hundreds of short films based on the same slim, original script, which mashed up elements of Our Gang and the Lindbergh kidnapping. Starring thousands of kids from across America. Barker’s films documented small town America and fueled the Hollywood aspirations of generations, while leaving his own dreams and motives elusive.

  • Dry Erase

    Dry Erase Comedy Dry Erase is a female-centered satirical series pairing the absurd world ofstartup finance with the resilient working-class people impacted by modern technology.

Awards

  • Semifinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards
    (2021)

  • Semifinalist, Creative World Awards
    (2021)

  • Official Selection, Oaxaca International Film Festival
    (2021)

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