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Bruno Derlin

Bruno Derlin

Director, Screenwriter, Producer, Editor and Music Composer

Parlin, New Jersey

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October 2018
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About Bruno

I have worn and continue to sport many hats in the realm of film and TV production, but my primary love and source for all inspiration originates in screenwriting. I am humbled by, but very proud to state that many of my feature screenwriting efforts have landed prestigious placement in numerous script competitions, including BlueCat, Bravo's Project Greenlight, Film & Screenplay Contest, Stage32 Microbudget Horror Script Competition, Filmmatic Screenplay Awards, and Your Script Produced! Studios 2020 - Season 2 Competition.

I was born in Genoa, Italy, and immigrated to Brooklyn, New York, with my parents, at the age of nine. During my first summer in the States, I spent most of my time with a friend from grammar school, with whom I developed a passion for ‘the movies.’ We spent our days playing around in his backyard, where we would create our own ‘film story ideas’ and act them out. Of course, given our available setting, which consisted of a large swimming pool, the majority of our tales involved battleships lost at sea with courageous sailors/soldiers fighting to survive and swim to safety.

Throughout middle school and beyond, I enrolled in every creative writing forum available to me, and by the time college rolled around, I knew there were only two areas of concentration for me: writing and cinema studies. At New York’s School of Visual Arts, I focused my studies on film production, film theory, and screenwriting; and at Center for the Media Arts, I earned a Certificate in Television Production and Writing.

Just a few months following the completion of my studies, I was hired as an Assistant Editor at Geller Media Management, a TV news agency, where I quickly became Managing Editor and was assigned to curate high profile accounts for the likes of Maury Povich, Connie Chung, and Dana Tyler. In 1988, I began writing and producing an Italian language pop music radio program for the New York based station, ICN (Italian Communications Network), which ran for three years. I then decided to shift back into the visual mediums of television and film. I began working as a production assistant in the early 1990s, on various independent feature projects and humbly climbed the production ladder, eventually landing a Production Management position on the Big Pun/Fat Joe music video, "Twins (Deep Cover ’98)" and as a Producer on a national television commercial for Fleischmann’s Yeast. During that time, I also composed original music for several TV commercials, including regional spots for Maine State Cable and TradeWell Investment Banking. During the ‘90s, I produced several short subject films, closing the decade with my own directorial debut of the narrative short subject, "THEOlogic". I also co-wrote the indie features "Clouds of Magellan" and "Intervention", the latter having recently premiered online, streaming on Amazon Prime.

In summer of 1999, I co-founded the independent film magazine Guerrilla Filmmaker, which achieved international distribution in its second quarterly edition. As Editor in Chief of the publication, I penned editorials, columns, and film reviews for both, the printed version and its online/web counterpart. In August of 2001, I embarked on an initiative that would change my life and would open an entirely brand-new perspective on my ‘adventures in cinema.’ In an effort to create an exhibition forum for works featured in the pages of Guerrilla Filmmaker, I co-founded the Guerrilla Film & Video Festival, the first film festival to take place in Tribeca and the first film festival on the East Coast dedicated solely to ‘promoting domestic filmmaking.’ The event, which started as a three-day showcase for homegrown auteurs, bloomed into the passion project that became Visionfest: The Other Festival, which had the distinction of being the first film festival ever staged on the legendary U.S.S. Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum. As Executive Director of the film festival’s organizing entity, the Domani Vision Film Society, a non-profit, charitable organization based in New York, I ran the event for 15 consecutive, annual showcases and I am an Honorary Founding Director of the Visionfest Screenwriting Competition, which continues to run annually, providing opportunities for fledgling writers to achieve industry exposure. During this tenure, I also acted as Executive Producer of the 5x5 New York State of Mind Digital Project, a short digital films initiative that saw the realization of 24 short films that brought together the collaborative talents of hundreds of creative artists. 

I have been working as a retail sales representative for a major, New York-based photo-video-audio technology company since 2011, often spearheading side projects, which engage my writing and editorial experience and I spend most of my spare time working my own screenwriting projects, which include several short scripts, features, and a TV pilot. I wrote, edited, and produced the comedy podcast, "3 People Like This", which hit the Top 10 Comedy Podcasts List on iTunes, and I recently completed the sound design and editorial phase on the short subject, "RevolvR" which I also wrote, based upon a story by another author. I am always ready to take on my next adventure with the same passion, determination, and conviction I had when I was that young boy who played the sailor swimming to safety, in that vast open sea of an imaginary world that I’ve been fortunate enough to turn into reality.

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  • It's Like That

    It's Like That Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance ⋄ Comedy A disgruntled and lonely event videographer trying to rekindle with an old flame he runs into at a wedding, must convince her that her fiancé, the bully who tormented him throughout middle school, is not the charming, lovable lug she believes he is.

  • Sideshow

    Sideshow Budget: $10M - $30M | Fantasy ⋄ Family The imminent divorce of his parents catapults an autistic, non-verbal twelve year-old boy into his own perfectly rendered drawings of a traveling circus and into a parallel reality where he is bright, talkative, and very eloquent, but must outwit a megalomaniacal ringmaster and the child-hating animal trainer who does his evil bidding and runs the sideshow.

  • Threshold

    Threshold Budget: $100K - $1M | Romance ⋄ Horror Following the loss of her father, a clinically depressed young woman finds herself quarantined with her troublesome boyfriend in her family’s old country home when a strange, seductive woman arrives on their doorstep, tempts them, and refuses to leave them alone.

  • The Devil Went Down To Jersey

    The Devil Went Down To Jersey Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror ⋄ Comedy A disgruntled small town sheriff must avert a potential media frenzy in his once peaceful community as a series of grisly livestock and human attacks ensues, which he believes the Jersey Devil perpetrated.

  • Stool Pigeons

    Stool Pigeons Budget: $0 - $100K | Thriller ⋄ Crime In a secluded and seedy motel in the middle of nowhere, a young woman suffering from autoimmune disorders, is held captive for a ransom package that isn’t coming, while one of her captors falls head over heels for her.

  • The Catch

    The Catch Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama ⋄ Family A deaf-mute, 12 year-old, city boy goes fishing on a country lake with his hard of hearing grandfather for the first time and an unexpected twist of events turns their day into one that their family will never forget.

  • Travelers

    Travelers Budget: $0 - $100K | Sci-fi ⋄ Drama In a floundering bed and breakfast that caters to travelers and short term guests, the lonely young woman who runs it is visited by a guest who unveils a shocking revelation, which forces them to unite to ensure their own survival.

  • One Week 'Til Next Year

    One Week 'Til Next Year Budget: $100K - $1M | Romance ⋄ Comedy The imminent engagement plans of an Italian-American couple in Brooklyn are shaken by the arrival of a handsome family friend and former crush of hers, who comes from Italy to spend the holidays at her parents' house, fueling her fiancé's jealousy and giving her cold feet during the final days of 1999.

  • Ice Cream, You Scream

    Ice Cream, You Scream Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror ⋄ Comedy A string of grisly deaths shakes up a sleepy American town and all the clues point to the local Ice Cream Man. But can this gentle and kind man who works tirelessly to take care of his wheelchair-bound son and perpetually bickering wife actually be a ruthless murderer or is something more sinister and evil lurking in the shadows?

Credits

  • Discarded

    Discarded (2017)
    Film (short) (Drama) Producer A man gains new perspective on the world around him while living on the streets of NYC.

  • The Lonely

    The Lonely (2016)
    Film (short) by D/Vision Films-Bruno Derlin (Fantasy and Horror) Director-Writer-Editor Shot on black and white 16mm film, this anthology of Gothic tales inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla is about a man's search for love and companionship in a dream-like world reigned by creatures of the night. This is the "Definitive Director's Cut".

  • Dark Passenger: Volume 1

    Dark Passenger: Volume 1 (2015)
    Film by Nyle Cavazos Garcia (Thriller) Producer Anthology -Six stories that center around characters dealing with their personal demons and trying to keep their dark passengers at bay.

  • Dori

    Dori (2013)
    Film (short) by Annatte Beatice (Family) Editor

  • Animal Attraction

    Animal Attraction (2012)
    Film (short) by Bryan Norton (Comedy) Producer A dog has superpowers and he fights for justice.

  • Goodbye Brooklyn

    Goodbye Brooklyn (2012)
    Film (short) by Jon-Carlos Evans (Drama) Producer A Veteran of an unknown War, suffering from delusions and shell shock, comes to terms with the fact that his greatest war is within and his most threatening enemy is himself.

  • Houston & 6th

    Houston & 6th (2012)
    Film (short) by Nyle Cavazos Garcia (Thriller) Producer Two women plan to murder their mutual lover. For one woman, he is the love of her life. For the other woman, he is her husband.

  • Open Call

    Open Call (2012)
    Film (short) by Geoff Lerer (Comedy) Producer Part of the VisionfestNYC initiative The 5x5 New York State of Mind Digital Project

  • The 5Boroughs

    The 5Boroughs (2012)
    Film by Multiple Producer Anthology collection of 5 short films, each based on 5 winning screenplays from across the nation, each directed by 5 carefully chosen NY-based independent filmmakers, each produced in 5-days under a strict set of guidelines, one film per each of the 5 Boroughs of New York City.

  • I Heart Staten Island

    I Heart Staten Island (2012)
    Film (short) by Jef Taylor (Comedy and Drama) Producer It was only when he did not get up to take a bow that anyone realised something had gone wrong. -- Part of the VisionfestNYC initiative The 5x5 New York State of Mind Digital Project.

  • It Was a Girl

    It Was a Girl (2012)
    Film (short) by Frank Lewallen (Drama) Producer-Editor Sometimes regret has very odd ways of manifesting itself in someone's life. For the Werners, an action of despair taken 15 years ago will literally come to life before their eyes.

  • It's Not Saturday

    It's Not Saturday (2011)
    Film (short) by Martha Pinson (Drama) Producer A teenage young man living in Harlem, NYC, finds himself head of his family with a very ill grandmother and a little brother. He goes out to panhandle with his saxophone and we discover the power of his gift for jazz to contribute both to his family and the city itself.

  • Easy Prey

    Easy Prey (2011)
    Film (short) by Jeremiah Kipp (Horror) Producer Part of the VisionfestNYC initiative The 5x5 New York State of Mind Digital Project, this is a short vampire tale set in New York.

  • For the Want of a Nail

    For the Want of a Nail (2011)
    Film (short) by Frank Lewallen (Drama) Producer-Editor They say no news is good news. But for Linda Culpepper, whose husband is fighting in Iraq, every day is an unending journey of uncertainty and underlying fear.

  • David

    David (2010)
    Film (short) by Elizabeth Van Meter (Drama) Producer A woman, suffering from fainting spells and haunted by the past, plunges into the wormhole of her mind where she experiences moments of comfort, isolation, humor, and deep longing that always lead back to David. Is her everyday existence the dream and is her true reality, that which she's created in her mind's eye, built to cope with fear and loss?

  • Mary's Journal: Episode 1 - Connected

    Mary's Journal: Episode 1 - Connected (2010)
    Film (short) by Nyle Cavazos Garcia (Thriller) Producer Mary is a sufficient serial killer who lives and murders people in Brooklyn, New York. She has become bored and lonely, and has lost the connection that she used to feel to her victims, until she becomes the target of somebody else's disturbing behavior.

  • Conjugal

    Conjugal (2005)
    Film (short) by Frank Lewallen (Drama) Producer-Editor Part of the VisionfestNYC initiative The 5x5 New York State of Mind Digital Project.

  • Blackout

    Blackout (2004)
    Film (short) by Ilya Chaiken (Comedy and Drama) Producer On the morning after the Big Blackout of 2004, Helen wakes up with a hangover and a stranger in her bed. Can she piece together the events of that historic night? -- Part of the VisionfestNYC initiative The 5x5 New York State of Mind Digital Project.

  • Intervention

    Intervention (2004)
    Film by Anton Evangelista (Drama) Co-Writer When a young Italian American couple living in the Bronx in 1968 get over their heads financially, she starts working nights and he starts moonlighting at a chop shop. These jobs bring new stresses to their relationship until he sets out with a gun to kill the love of his life. Will there be an intervention in time?

  • THEOlogic

    THEOlogic (1999)
    Film (short) by D/VISION films - Bruno Derlin Director-Writer THEO conjures up a story to get his bored characters in motion, but his attempts are contrived, if not entirely futile. Aware that their story isn't going anywhere, they materialize before him and challenge him to a showdown with his own imagination, spirituality, and logic.

  • Beyond Reason

    Beyond Reason (1995)
    Film (short) by Anton Evangelista (Drama) Producer Proof of concept for the feature film, INTERVENTION.

  • Clouds of Magellan

    Clouds of Magellan (1995)
    Film by Marco Ursino (Drama) Writer-Producer A recovered drug addict becomes a counselor at the world renowned rehab facility, DayTop, but a recent rush of familiar cases cause him to revisit some demons from his past.

Awards

  • Semi-Finalist Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices 2023
    (2023)

  • Second Round - ISA Fast Track Fellowship 2023
    (2023)

  • Quarter Finalist The Script Lab Free Screenplay Contest
    (2022)

  • Quarter Finalist Mad Wife Productions Fellowship 2022
    (2022)

  • Quarter Finalist The Script Lab Free Screenplay Contest
    (2022)

  • Quarter Finalist Your Script Produced Studios 2020
    (2021)

  • Semi-Finalist Filmmatic Screenplay Awards - Horror
    (2021)

  • Finalist Page Turner Screenplays Competition
    (2021)

  • Finalist 13Horror.com Film & Screenplay Contest
    (2021)

  • Quarter Finalist Stage32 1st Annual Family-Friendly Screenwriting Contest
    (2021)

  • Official Selection Atlanta International Screenplay Awards
    (2021)

  • Official Selection White Unicorn International Film Festival
    (2021)

  • Semi-Finalist Page Turner Screenplay Competition
    (2021)

  • Semi-Finalist: Microbudget Horror Script Competition
    (2020)

  • Preliminary Finalist 13Horror.com Film & Screenplay Contest
    (2016)

  • Quarter Finalist BlueCat Screenplay Competition
    (2010)

  • Semi-Finalist HBO's Project Greenlight - Season 3
    (2004)

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