Bruno Derlin

Bruno Derlin

Parlin, New Jersey

DirectorScreenwriterProducerEditorMusic Composer

About Bruno

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2024-11-05

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Awards

  • Semi-Finalist Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices 2023
    (2023)

  • Second Round - ISA Fast Track Fellowship 2023
    (2023)

  • Quarter Finalist The Script Lab Free Screenplay Contest
    (2022)

  • Quarter Finalist Mad Wife Productions Fellowship 2022
    (2022)

  • Quarter Finalist The Script Lab Free Screenplay Contest
    (2022)

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Credits

  • Discarded

    Discarded (2017)
    Film (short) (Drama) Producer A man gains new perspective on the world around him while living on the streets of NYC.

  • The Lonely

    The Lonely (2016)
    Film (short) by D/Vision Films-Bruno Derlin (Fantasy and Horror) Director-Writer-Editor Shot on black and white 16mm film, this anthology of Gothic tales inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla is about a man's search for love and companionship in a dream-like world reigned by creatures of the night. This is the "Definitive Director's Cut".

  • Dark Passenger: Volume 1

    Dark Passenger: Volume 1 (2015)
    Film by Nyle Cavazos Garcia (Thriller) Producer Anthology -Six stories that center around characters dealing with their personal demons and trying to keep their dark passengers at bay.

  • Dori

    Dori (2013)
    Film (short) by Annatte Beatice (Family) Editor

  • Animal Attraction

    Animal Attraction (2012)
    Film (short) by Bryan Norton (Comedy) Producer A dog has superpowers and he fights for justice.

  • Goodbye Brooklyn

    Goodbye Brooklyn (2012)
    Film (short) by Jon-Carlos Evans (Drama) Producer A Veteran of an unknown War, suffering from delusions and shell shock, comes to terms with the fact that his greatest war is within and his most threatening enemy is himself.

  • Houston & 6th

    Houston & 6th (2012)
    Film (short) by Nyle Cavazos Garcia (Thriller) Producer Two women plan to murder their mutual lover. For one woman, he is the love of her life. For the other woman, he is her husband.

  • Open Call

    Open Call (2012)
    Film (short) by Geoff Lerer (Comedy) Producer Part of the VisionfestNYC initiative The 5x5 New York State of Mind Digital Project

  • The 5Boroughs

    The 5Boroughs (2012)
    Film by Multiple Producer Anthology collection of 5 short films, each based on 5 winning screenplays from across the nation, each directed by 5 carefully chosen NY-based independent filmmakers, each produced in 5-days under a strict set of guidelines, one film per each of the 5 Boroughs of New York City.

  • I Heart Staten Island

    I Heart Staten Island (2012)
    Film (short) by Jef Taylor (Comedy and Drama) Producer It was only when he did not get up to take a bow that anyone realised something had gone wrong. -- Part of the VisionfestNYC initiative The 5x5 New York State of Mind Digital Project.

  • It Was a Girl

    It Was a Girl (2012)
    Film (short) by Frank Lewallen (Drama) Producer-Editor Sometimes regret has very odd ways of manifesting itself in someone's life. For the Werners, an action of despair taken 15 years ago will literally come to life before their eyes.

  • It's Not Saturday

    It's Not Saturday (2011)
    Film (short) by Martha Pinson (Drama) Producer A teenage young man living in Harlem, NYC, finds himself head of his family with a very ill grandmother and a little brother. He goes out to panhandle with his saxophone and we discover the power of his gift for jazz to contribute both to his family and the city itself.

  • Easy Prey

    Easy Prey (2011)
    Film (short) by Jeremiah Kipp (Horror) Producer Part of the VisionfestNYC initiative The 5x5 New York State of Mind Digital Project, this is a short vampire tale set in New York.

  • For the Want of a Nail

    For the Want of a Nail (2011)
    Film (short) by Frank Lewallen (Drama) Producer-Editor They say no news is good news. But for Linda Culpepper, whose husband is fighting in Iraq, every day is an unending journey of uncertainty and underlying fear.

  • David

    David (2010)
    Film (short) by Elizabeth Van Meter (Drama) Producer A woman, suffering from fainting spells and haunted by the past, plunges into the wormhole of her mind where she experiences moments of comfort, isolation, humor, and deep longing that always lead back to David. Is her everyday existence the dream and is her true reality, that which she's created in her mind's eye, built to cope with fear and loss?

  • Mary's Journal: Episode 1 - Connected

    Mary's Journal: Episode 1 - Connected (2010)
    Film (short) by Nyle Cavazos Garcia (Thriller) Producer Mary is a sufficient serial killer who lives and murders people in Brooklyn, New York. She has become bored and lonely, and has lost the connection that she used to feel to her victims, until she becomes the target of somebody else's disturbing behavior.

  • Conjugal

    Conjugal (2005)
    Film (short) by Frank Lewallen (Drama) Producer-Editor Part of the VisionfestNYC initiative The 5x5 New York State of Mind Digital Project.

  • Blackout

    Blackout (2004)
    Film (short) by Ilya Chaiken (Comedy and Drama) Producer On the morning after the Big Blackout of 2004, Helen wakes up with a hangover and a stranger in her bed. Can she piece together the events of that historic night? -- Part of the VisionfestNYC initiative The 5x5 New York State of Mind Digital Project.

  • Intervention

    Intervention (2004)
    Film by Anton Evangelista (Drama) Co-Writer When a young Italian American couple living in the Bronx in 1968 get over their heads financially, she starts working nights and he starts moonlighting at a chop shop. These jobs bring new stresses to their relationship until he sets out with a gun to kill the love of his life. Will there be an intervention in time?

  • THEOlogic

    THEOlogic (1999)
    Film (short) by D/VISION films - Bruno Derlin Director-Writer THEO conjures up a story to get his bored characters in motion, but his attempts are contrived, if not entirely futile. Aware that their story isn't going anywhere, they materialize before him and challenge him to a showdown with his own imagination, spirituality, and logic.

  • Beyond Reason

    Beyond Reason (1995)
    Film (short) by Anton Evangelista (Drama) Producer Proof of concept for the feature film, INTERVENTION.

  • Clouds of Magellan

    Clouds of Magellan (1995)
    Film by Marco Ursino (Drama) Writer-Producer A recovered drug addict becomes a counselor at the world renowned rehab facility, DayTop, but a recent rush of familiar cases cause him to revisit some demons from his past.

Loglines

  • It's Like That

    It's Like That Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance Comedy Still filming other people’s happily-ever-afters, a lonely wedding videographer sees his own rom-com revival when he reconnects with his childhood crush—only to realize she’s engaged to the same guy who made middle school miserable, forcing him to sabotage the wedding without sabotaging what little dignity he has left.

  • I Was A Teenage Teenager

    I Was A Teenage Teenager Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance Comedy Devastated after losing his high school sweetheart for bailing on her year-end musical, a withdrawn junior accidentally spirals into a whirlwind of superficial fame—until a final shot at redemption forces him to face the spotlight, the music, and the love he left behind.

  • Cryptid

    Cryptid Budget: $10M - $30M | Mystery Horror Years after losing his wife to a brutal, unexplained attack, a weary South Jersey sheriff faces a new wave of savage killings — and when his estranged daughter returns seeking his blessing for her engagement, he must confront the resurfacing legend of the Jersey Devil before history repeats itself.

  • Sideshow

    Sideshow Budget: $10M - $30M | Fantasy Family When his parents' impending divorce shatters his world, a non-verbal autistic boy escapes into the vivid drawings of his imagined circus — a parallel reality where he is articulate and confident, but must outwit a tyrannical ringmaster and his cruel, child-hating animal trainer to find his way home

  • Threshold

    Threshold Budget: $100K - $1M | Romance Horror Reeling from her father’s death, a clinically depressed young woman isolates with her unstable boyfriend in a secluded country home — but their grip on reality fractures when a seductive, sinister stranger arrives uninvited and slowly takes control.

  • The Devil Went Down To Jersey

    The Devil Went Down To Jersey Budget: $1M - $5M | Horror Comedy When mutilated livestock and a pair of headless bodies turn up in the Pine Barrens, a local sheriff's investigation collides with a defiant NYU journalist and his goth girlfriend—sparking a media storm and reigniting fear that the Jersey Devil may not be just a legend after all.

  • Stool Pigeons

    Stool Pigeons Budget: $0 - $100K | Thriller / Suspense Crime Held hostage in a decaying roadside motel by a group of criminals, a chronically ill young woman forms a dangerous connection with one captor—igniting a tense battle of loyalty and manipulation as the promised ransom fails to arrive.

  • The Catch

    The Catch Budget: $0 - $100K | Drama Family When a deaf-mute 12-year-old city boy joins his hard-of-hearing grandfather for their first fishing trip on a quiet country lake, an unforeseen turn transforms their bonding day into a life-altering memory for the entire family.

  • Travelers

    Travelers Budget: $0 - $100K | Science Fiction Drama In a fading bed and breakfast, a reclusive young woman finds her quiet routine shattered by a guest whose startling revelation binds them together—forcing both to confront buried truths and depend on each other to survive what’s coming.

  • One Week 'Til Next Year

    One Week 'Til Next Year Budget: $100K - $1M | Romance Comedy As Y2K paranoia looms, a Brooklyn couple’s future is thrown into uncertainty when a charming family friend from Italy arrives for the holidays, reigniting old feelings in her heart and sparking jealousy in her boyfriend, just as they face the final days of the millennium.

  • Ice Cream, You Scream

    Ice Cream, You Scream Budget: $100K - $1M | Horror Comedy In the quaint, retro-flavored town of Silver Spring, PA, where life feels stuck in the '80s, a string of brutal murders shatters suburban bliss — as horny teens, oddball locals, and clueless neighbors become unwitting pawns in a deadly game, while a ruthless killer hides in plain sight.

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