Brent is an award winning actor/screenwriter, novelist, director and producer. Mr. Fidler has written three novels, Shadows of Nagasaki - Lulu 2020– a sci-fi/horror story about reanimated atomic shadow ghosts who enact revenge on the descendants of the Manhattan Project https://www.amazon.ca/Shadows-Nagasaki-Brent-Fidler/dp/0359890679
Crack’d (Goodreads 2021) a biting satire about human vanity and the absurd cosmetic cures seven friends undertake to slow the aging process The Goddess Waltz, Sahaja Books 2022. https://www.sahajbooks.org/collection/the-goddess-waltza spiritual/new age autobiography. A dual citizen, Mr. Fidler currently commutes between Los Angeles and Vancouver.
He has appeared in over forty American television series and movies, earning a Best Actor Leo Award for his chilling performance in FF Coppola's First Wave. His performance as Edgar Allan Poe in his first produced feature Poe - Last days of the Raven garnered a Best Feature Award at the Cinema City International Film Festival at Universal Studios in Los Angeles and Brent was nominated for a Best Director Gemini Award.
Personal career highlights include working with Al Pacino and Janis Chastain in the intimate Culver studios playing Pacino’s Pharisee in Salomaybe and a callback at Warner Bros for Macbeth with Joel Cohen, reading opposite Frances McDormid (Ellen Chenoweth – casting)
Brent has written two professionally produced stage plays, Poe – The “highly” unusual life of Edgar A and Raising the Conch - The Way of the Kundalini Goddess His screenplays have been optioned by the late Janis Chaskin at New Line Cinema and studio producer Doug Claybourne . He is also the President of Theater Crossing Film Corp. dedicated to producing feature films that have a high literary element and a strong moral and ethical component.
As a teacher, Brent has lectured on producing independent feature films at Boston College and Conlin College in Texas. His ACTRA/UBCP workshops include Meditation for Actors, Acting for Hallmark and Stillness for the Camera, which Brent also taught at Film Training Manitoba.
Unique traits: Meditation
The Man Who Solved Himself Budget: $1M - $5M | Other ⋄ Mystery A gumshoe detective, with the aid of mystery novels’ most famous fictitious sleuths, must solve his own murder to gain a second chance at life and save New York from a diabolical Nazi plot. Tagline: His death was his greatest case.
Nova & The Cosmodians Budget: $1M - $5M | Animation LOGLINE: A lonely girl Star in the heavens finds friendship with a isolated Earth teen and together with a superhero team of living planets, meteors and comets battle a Black Hole out to conquer the universe. TAGLINE: Friendship and danger at Infinity’s end.
The Guild of Inner Superheroes Budget: $5M - $10M | Sci-fi LOGLINE: Five angst-filled teenagers manifest their inner superheroes during a high tech seance while inadvertently creating their evil doppelgängers who battle each other to save the Earth. TAGLINE: Who would your Inner Superhero be?
Poe - Last Days of the Raven
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Poe First feature film on Poe's life.
Leo Award Best Actor in A Dramatic Series - First Wave
Best feature Film - Poe - Last Days of the Raven - Cinema City International FIlm Festival