Brandy Rainey Amstel

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Arts
Occupation Writer/Director/Producer
Location Austin, Texas, United States
Introduction Brandy Rainey Amstel is a native Texan and owner of Set It Off! Productions and Strapped Entertainment. She has produced twelve narrative short films with a wide range of budgets and written and directed eight short films. She is renowned for completing her projects on budget and on time. Brandy likes to use film to entertain the audience. What motivates Brandy is the deep desire to tell stories that are unique and powerful, while engaging the audience in a world that is outside of their experience. She prefers subjects you would be struck with as dramatic, character driven, with action and provocative situations and resolutions. Brandy would like to be known for creating beautiful, engaging, stories of our human existence. Brandy Rainey Amstel is a leader in the Austin film community and serves on the Board of Directors for Reel Women, a non-profit organization that supports women in film and has been instrumental in building The Film Network, which is another local organization that brings actors and production teams together. She is also a member of the Austin Film Society and the Texas Motion Picture Alliance as well as the Lead for Bootstrap Austin Film Subgroup.
Interests movies, painting, sculpture, cooking and entertaining
Favorite Movies True Romance, Fight Club, House of 1000 Corpses, Braveheart
Favorite Music Rob Zombie, Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, Hank III, Matisyahu
Favorite Books The Inner Game of Selling by Ron Willingham, The China Study