conor mcbride

CONOR MCBRIDE

is an

IRISH

DOCUMENTARY

FILMMAKER

SCRIBBLER

SPECTATOR

VIDEO EDITOR

based in NEW YORK. His STORIES, often compelling CHARACTER STUDIES, explore subjects ranging from GENDER to PERFORMANCE, which he portrays through FILM, AUDIO & DIGITAL MEDIA.

His most recent work has been featured in ACCENT MAGAZINE & NARRATIVELY:

Untitled

ONEOFUS profiled artist ‘Untitled’, Matthew de Leon’s drag persona, was born less than a year ago, and was catapulted into the limelight after winning Dragnet, a drag competition in Williamsburg. Today Matthew works as a graphic designer by day and moonlights as one of the most popular queens on the vibrant Brooklyn circuit. This documentary tells UNTITLED’S story.

Read the full ACCENT MAGAZINE article here

My Own Private Rockaway

A radio documentary made for WNYC featuring stories of people’s secret sanctuaries in New York. The project, produced by narrative.ly, appeared as this multimedia piece on their website.

Read the full NARRATIVELY article here

The Rev

A multimedia magazine article incorporating text, stills and video for ACCENT MAGAZINE. The Rev Vince Anderson is not your regular pastor. He drinks. He swears. He’s a gutbucket blues singer. “People forget that gospel came out of the blues and not the other way around,” Vince explains as to why he believes blues singers were the first American preachers among other things here

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ben-braun

BEN BRAUN is

a

SALES AGENT.

He works for SUBMARINE: a sales/production company specializing in DOCS and FILMS in NYC.

With quite a pedigree, the partners have worked with director GREG ARAKI, video artists NAM JUNE PAIK, played in punk bands with THURSTON MOORE & JIM JARMUSCH. BEN is in the video for SONIC YOUTH’S SACRED TRICKSTER.

They also own the rights to HORROR comic CREEPY & EERIE.

Recent film distribution projects have included POLANSKI’S lost documentary WEEKEND OF A CHAMPION [which is very apt as BEN LOVES CARS], the Oscar winning 20 FEET FROM STARDOM and the OSCAR nominated CHASING ICE, BLACKFISH and CUTIE AND THE BOXER among innumerable others.

BB also oversaw production of the 30th Anniversary DVD release of CULT classic, Charlie Ahearn’s WILD STYLE.

Ben can be found at most major film festivals selling his wares or Pennsylvania or the Submarine office in Chinatown. He may or may not be wearing R.J MACREADY’S jacket from JOHN CARPENTER’S THE THING.

Check out some of his work below.