Brian McGuire

Los Angeles, California, United States

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Brian McGuire  Brian McGuire was born in Chicago where he had six brothers and sisters, four mothers, and one father.  All of them were crazy as hell but could tell a story.  At eleven, Brian ran away with a traveling carnival and ended up in Austin, Texas.   His first acting job was as The Jack Rabbit in the children's play, Don Quixote.  Attempting improvisation (and realism) for the grand death scene, Brian jumped off a twenty-foot ledge and broke three ribs.  He would not return to entertainment until he was nineteen.   Though Brian never went to university, he spent a lot of time in the dorm rooms of the University of Texas.  In four years he worked on forty student films and met many long term collaborators.   When Brian's fake four years of college came to an end he moved to LA where he became an underground techno DJ until director Alex Holdridge hauled his ass back to Austin to play the lead in Sexless (Best Narrative Feature & Audience Award at South By South West 2003).     Refreshed as an actor Brian continued his art in LA where Holdridge’s big hit, In Search of a Midnight Kiss (John Cassavettes, Independent Spirit Award 2009) had the critics likening him to a young Bill Murray for his sincere acting blended with his nonchalant comic ease. For Brian, the film electrified his filmmaker brain and, along with best friend and collaborator Bret Roberts (a producer and Mikey in The Black Belle), he formed Lad Stallion Productions.   The first for Lad Stallion was Blind Man, written in outline by Brian and Bret where they improvised dialogue across the country in a road trip setting, picking up the forty strong cast along the way.  Concerning two idiot filmmakers headed from Chicago to the CineVegas Film Fest to show their film that didn’t actually in, it ironically played at CineVegas the following year (2008).   Brian co-wrote Everything Will Happen Before You Die with director Dan Finkle then wrote and directed On Holiday which played Raindance last year.  Written in ten days, shot in ten and edited in ten, it paved the way for The Black Belle’s similarly intense schedule.   On Holiday and Everything Will Happen Before You Die opened The Los Angeles Downtown Film Fest, 2010 and meant a joint award for Brian and Bret as “Best New Filmmakers”.  On Holiday featured at Raindance last year and saw Brian stand out as one of the “Top Ten New Filmmakers to Watch”.      Brian has just completed post on his third feature as writer/director, Carlos Spills The Beans and is in pre-production for his fourth, to be shot in November 2011.   As an actor he has recently wrapped on 9 Full Moons with Amy Seimetz and, of course, Bret Roberts.   Brian is determined to get his stories out into the world as he has too many in his head.   email me at <a href="mailto:djbrainmcguire@gmail.com">djbrainmcguire@gmail.com</a>

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