brett felty
Writer, Director, Cinematographer
Brett Felty is a writer and filmmaker raised in Macon, Georgia and now based in New Orleans, Louisiana.
He founded the DIY film collective Nobody’s Empire in Los Angeles, California and the music video production company Young Lungs Films in Nashville, Tennessee. He has written for Psymposia Magazine, the Southern Education Desk, and the 11th Hour. He is currently in post-production on Imaginary Friends, a surreal coming-of-age film, and 1992, a documentary about Louisiana poet Johnny Nguyen and his family’s refugee journey to America.
Brett has collaborated widely, working as a Producer, Director of Photography, Production Designer, Gaffer, and Editor. He has a passion for stories which transmute and order the chaos, suffering, and uncertainty of modern life into a hopeful framework, especially concerning poor and working-class people.