Brad Barnes

Brad’s feature film debut as a director, The Locksmith (a.k.a. “Homewrecker”), won the Best of NEXT Award at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. In addition to The Locksmith, Brad has written, produced and directed two Sundance shorts, as well as a short for the Showtime Network starring Christopher Walken.  Brad’s second dramatic feature, Sex Guaranteed was released by The Orchard.  His third fiction feature, Hiding Places is in post-production.

Previously, Brad taught filmmaking for over a decade in the graduate film program at Columbia University.  He’s also taught in the grad film program at NYU, at The New School at Film Independent and in the cinema department at USC.

Brad recently directed two plays, This is Our Youth and Orphans, for the Aquila Morong studio in Los Angeles.   Brad began his career making multiple screen, gallery-based video and was formally director of exhibitions at White Cube gallery in London, UK.