Brandon Vega
MadBoy Productions
Director and Screenwriter
Houston, Texas
February 2025
6 days ago
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About Brandon
Twelve years of Catholic school did nothing to diminish a curious mind and caustic wit. I had no other choice than to be a teller of stories. Had no idea it would lead me to be an award-winning one.
During three years in radio, alternating as a personality between the morning show and the graveyard shift, legendary disc jockey, Rory Wild, lent me a shooting script of THE ROCK (1996) that he got from a producer. I was dazzled: This stinkin' thing was on an actual film set! Being this close to Hollywood stoked a fire and a short five years later, I finished the first draft of my own spec script, NICKY BATZ.
Quitting a very lucrative career in real estate, I moved from Hawaii to sleep on my sister's futon in Houston, TX. I tended bar while I polished NICKY BATZ and wrote my second script, THE 6, in a mere six weeks. I packed up the Isuzu, drove cross-country and rented a room in a five-bedroom mid-century Los Angeles house with a few lunatics and no central air. I quickly received my first writing gig with rookie director Van M. Pham. I networked, hung out at Burbank mall, made a few great contacts, and got hired for more scripts. My journey has landed me in Las Vegas and back to Houston to focus on more scripts and this wonderfully dull website you're kindly taking your time with.
Then during the Pandemic of 2020, production was halted on my directorial debut of my short film, WELCOME BACK, CHARLIE. Instead, I switched gears and wrote, shot and cut a poignant short film called MADS AND INVISIBLE BOB (2020), with nothing more than my daughter, son, wife and new puppy. In the middle of the pandemic (following COVID protocols), I shot my 2nd short film, THE BIG WAIT (2022), with a cast of 2 and crew of 1 in a hotel room. Really feeling my oats as a director, I finished my 3rd short film, SMART ALEX (adapted from my feature screenplay of the same name) in 2023, entered it every major film festival I've ever heard of (and some that are completely foreign to me) My first time out, it was accepted into four film festivals which became a finalist in one (Gulf Coast Video and Film Festival) and winning awards in another (Audience Favorite Award and Best Actor Short Film in the Life Fest Film Festival). In 2024, I completed my fourth and most ambitious short film, FANBOY, coming soon to a film festival near you!
Through Stage32 I hope to find like-minded filmmakers who don't believe that we make just "content"; we make films. Films that, because so much thought has been put into it, makes the audience leave the theater thinking. And the primary thought will be, "Whoa. That was NOT just content."
Unique traits: Brutal honesty. Unwavering belief that nothing is more important than The Story.
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Nicky Batz Budget: $10M - $30M | Drama ⋄ Crime A broken-hearted Mafia hitman struggles to trust even the perfect girl with his heart. Will love or murder be the answer to happiness?
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Smart Alex Budget: $10M - $30M | Family ⋄ Drama On the verge of losing his own son, a down-on-his-luck headhunter struggles to convince an uneducated, overbearing father to allow his genius-level son to fulfill his true potential at the Amadeus Institute.
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Lenny and I Budget: $10M - $30M | Drama ⋄ Comedy Neglected and rejected at home and bullied in school, young tween Isaac turns to still-dead, offensive comedian, Lenny Bruce, to help find his identity and voice.
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Bringing Bobby Back Budget: $30M+ | Sci-fi ⋄ Drama Despondent after a failed mission to colonize Mars, the crew of the Resolution discover an astronaut from the doomed Skylab program floating in space who may hold the key to saving the soon-to-be-dismantled space program.
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The 6 Budget: $30M+ | Action ⋄ Adventure Falling to pieces after his fiancée - the last shot at love and a regular life - is abducted, the deadliest assassin in the world assembles his fellow members of the Assassins’ Guild to help save her – and himself.
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The Class of '89 Budget: $10M - $30M | Comedy ⋄ Adventure Desperate to woo his high school crush at their class reunion, a successful yet insecure tech nerd struggles to locate the only thing that made him cool back in the day - his classic Firebird - when the still-terrifying class bully complicates matters.
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In Witness Protection Budget: $10M - $30M | Thriller ⋄ Film-noir Seemingly safe in witness protection after betraying his former crime family, a wannabe big city gangster discovers he’s trapped in a different kind of prison in an isolated Texas town.
Credits
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Fanboy (
2024 )
Film (short) by MadBoy Productions/Brandon Vega Director, Writer With one shot to be the hero, an obsessed fanboy shadows his favorite cosplay queen at a local comic-con. -
Smart Alex (
2023 )
Film (short) by MadBoy Productions/Brandon Vega Director, Writer On the verge of losing his own son, a down-on-his-luck recruiter struggles to convince an uneducated, overbearing father to allow his genius-level son to fulfill his true potential at the Amadeus Institute. -
The Big Wait (
2022 )
Film (short) by MadBoy Productions/Brandon Vega Director, Writer Aging most-dangerous-hit man-in-the-world, JACK, is lured out of retirement and joins up-and-comer CARLOS on a hit that goes horribly wrong. As they await pick-up by their employers, a secret comes out that proves deadly. -
Mads and Invisible Bob (
2020 )
Film (short) by MadBoy Productions/Brandon Vega Director, Writer, Actor With the help of her invisible friend, Mads deals with adjusting to life with her twin brother during a pandemic as they grow up and apart.
Awards
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SMART ALEX (2023, short film): Life Fest Film Festival XXV - Audience Favorite Award
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FANBOY (2024): Los Angeles Movie & Music Video Awards - Best Director American Short Film
(2025)
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