• When Lottie, a struggling actress who moonlights as a sex worker, learns that her estranged father has died, she travels to the ghost town where he lived to close the door on that relationship forever. There she encounters Elijah, a folk artist living in exile, and she is forced by fate to confront the trauma she has denied for so long.

    A meditative, lyrical feature film about guilt and grace in the vein of spiritual dramas such as Paul Schrader's First Reformed and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Maborosi.

  • When a dead body turns up in Payne, a tiny, autonomous, historically black municipality inside of a larger city, Ronnie, the town's perpetually stoned and totally unequipped "sheriff" must race to solve the case or risk losing the town's sovereignty, and his entire community in the process.

    An ensemble-driven dramatic comedy masqueraded as a crime procedural about the power of community, this genre-bending hourlong pilot lives somewhere between FX's Atlanta and HBO's The Wire.

  • Lisa is a hairdresser and a "good, Christian lady" who has scratched and clawed her way out of the trailer park, but who has fallen on hard times again. But when Three-D, a warm-hearted drug dealer with no business sense, moves into an apartment above the salon, the two form an unlikely friendship, and find that they may be the answers to one another's prayers.

    A dramatic comedy pilot written with streaming in mind, this piece explores the con of the American Dream through the intersection of the trailer park and the projects by drawing a surprising parallel between a drug dealer and a small-business owner.

  • Sandra works at a slaughterhouse and is mother of two young girls in a small, dead-end town in rural Georgia. When her husband has a mysterious, unseen "incident", Sandra and the girls flee to her Mamaw Jo's house. But under her fundamentalist mother's thumb, she dreams of helping her daughter escape the life she's stuck in. She enrolls them in a modeling school in hopes of opening the door for them to escape the slaughterhouse town, but the founder of this school is not what she seems.

    It's like Gilmore Girls but dark. This half hour dramatic comedy blends elements of horror, comedy, and social realism to create a unique, bizarre world that explores themes of freedom, responsibility, and motherhood. Co-written with Ellen Steves and Eliza Padden.

  • A seven-year old boy from a no-luck family grows up alongside his parents in a rural Georgia trailer park during the height of the Great Recession. When his father is laid off and his mother discovers she is unexpectedly pregnant, each member of the family hatches their own plan to cope with the new reality, from running away to a get-rich-quick scheme involving dirt track racing.

  • Two teenagers flee the draft via a Greyhound that carries them from their Nebraska suburb to a life of freedom in 1966 Haight-Ashbury, but life there is not as simple as they’ve been led to believe.

  • A twenty-something college grad from a small town finds herself caught in an old loop when her big-city job prospects dry up and she ends up back in her hometown years later. Only it’s not just her—her ex-boyfriend now teaches at their old high school; her best friend still sells pot out of her parents’ house; the troubled kid who got shipped off to boarding school is a cop now. A generation of “Boomerang Babies” try to make the best of life back at home.

  • A diverse group of patients in an emergency psychiatric ward discover that their lives are eerily entwined, as are the events that led them to their institutionalization. They form an unlikely support group and must help each other put the pieces of their lives back together.

outro

when an ungoverned AI wipes out all of humanity, one man is remains: a vagabond musician who has survived by virtue of his own poverty. Left alone, he wrestles with the purpose of making music when no one is left to hear it, until a gorgeous, mysterious humming leads him out of his shelter.

written and directed by brett felty

(in post-production)

 

boredom

Two addicts reminisce over a needle and an Otis Redding record after a one night stand and slowly discover that their lives are uncanny mirrors.

written and directed by brett felty

 

imaginary friends

will has a psychotic break at the party and reconnects with an old friend.

written and directed by brett felty

the world is big and scary

in the aftermath of her brother’s suicide, a young girl is followed by a giant yeti-monster, but is it there to hurt or to help?