Brian Labrecque

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Brian Labrecque is an avant-garde independent filmmaker living in Seattle, WA. He is known for his gender-bending films such as 2004's "Far Too Gone", which tells the story of a strange guy in Seattle who thinks he's Tori Amos. 2006 saw the release of his short film "Meeting Hillary", which told the story of two young witches in a battle to the death. In 2007, sources say he will release "Fear of Lemonade", said to be an epic mind-bending psychotronic film about a shisha addict who is tormented by a Girl Scout from Hell.

Self-taught and a devout follower of John Waters (filmmaker), Don Coscarelli and Mike Judge, he never attended film school and has never been to a writing workshop. He denounces formal film school training as "emasculating" and "like trying to become smarter by getting a lobotomy". His films have won critical acclaim from film festivals as diverse as the Southside Film Festival in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to Festival Du Cinema De Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium.

Brian Labrecque is also delving into the comic realm with a long-form graphic novel adaptation of his unproduced script "Effing Brutal". The graphic novel will be the first to feature a bonus CD with real-time voice overs by the actors to be playing the roles when the film is produced. The novel is being drawn by Harrison Wood and colored by Sam Jagoda.

Brian Labrecque often collaborates with Producers Eric Scott, Gregory Wylie and Rebecca Pauline Frost.

This may or may not be the same Brian Labrecque who's been making short films about the Wicca faith driving people to use supposed jedi-like mind powers to kill each other. He's not making many friends with the real Witches.