Brandon Elon Russell

Brandon is a filmmaker who was born & raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Watching TV shows & movies has always been his thing, but not until the middle of high school were the love of movies grew even more. He also spent half a day at Francis Tuttle Technology Center to take the audio class in Audio Video production. During his Senior year in high school instead of going to all of the football & basketball games like the others, he spent most of his Friday nights at the movie theater, week after week. After high school his plan was to just go to college for general studies, since the major film schools were outside of Oklahoma, it wasn't until a magazine was brought to his attention that featured Oklahoma City Community College and the film & video production courses, by the summer of 2012 he took a summer class then officially enrolled at OCCC & studied film & video production(Now Digital cinema Production)where he earned his Associate In Arts. He then transferred to The University of Oklahoma in 2016 to study Film & Media Studies and earned his Bachelors in 2018. He has mostly participated in college projects & had the opportunity to watch part of a movie being filmed in Oklahoma City in 2013. He has participated in eight 48 hour film competitions(OKC, Dallas & Austin) with the 2021 Dallas short film winning best film which went on to Filmapalooza 2022 in Washington D.C. He also attended the 24th annual Beverly Hils Film Festival(2024) in Hollywood at the iconic TCL Chinese Theatre. He has a celebrity look-alike Chris Rock, and has accepted the name nickname being he is the Oklahoma version of Chris Rock.