About

Writer / Director

Brett Felty is a writer and filmmaker raised in Macon, Georgia and now based in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is represented by Sovereign Talent Group.

Brett founded the DIY film collective Nobody’s Empire in Los Angeles, California and the music video production company Young Lungs Films in Nashville, Tennessee. He has written for Psymposia Magazine, the Southern Education Desk, the 11th Hour, and others.

As a writer, Brett’s work centers on themes of spirituality, isolation, addiction, and existential despair, combining elements of slow cinema and arthouse with mainstream conventions, often foregrounding a specific sense of place. He believes filmmaking is at its core a community service, and seeks to create films which are challenging while remaining accessible.

Brett has collaborated widely, working as a Producer, Director of Photography, Gaffer, and Editor. He has a passion for stories which transmute and order the chaos, suffering, and uncertainty of modern life onto a hopeful framework, especially concerning poor and working-class people.