Brennan Vance

Cinematographer, Director

You Were My First Boyfriend is a feature-length documentary in which filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo revisits her 1990s adolescence, a generation after she thought she'd left it all behind.

You Were My First Boyfriend

Verdant mid-summer Minneapolis is the backdrop for this single-day, elliptical docu-fiction, with an ensemble cast of thirty-something artists facing the realities of work and parenthood. Early sun comes through windows at an elementary school, where Jacob mops a floor. We follow him home, and meet his wife and son.

A Blue Morning

The fraught relationship between African Americans and the police, often rife with tension, fear, suspicion and hostility on all sides, that fuels the ongoing conflict between African American communities and law enforcement.

Sound of the Police

A workaholic TV news producer finds out he is dying and dedicates his remaining days to making a movie about the meaning of life for his estranged wife and their soon-to-be-born son.

Incompleteness

Cinematography Reel

Exploring the "anti-vax" movement both historically and in the angry political present, this vital account probes the divides and disinformation that threaten our future.

Shot in the Arm

During 1880-1968 over 4,000 African Americans were lynched at the hands of white mobs. These lynchings were commemorated through souvenir postcards that would ultimately be subverted by Black activists to expose racist violence in the U.S.

Lynching Postcards: 'Token of A Great Day'

Carlos' years-long struggle against deportation leads his case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Living in limbo, with seemingly endless legal victories and defeats, he pursues reconciliation with his faith, family and the law - determined to stay in Minnesota for his only daughter's quinceañera and beyond.

To Be Reconciled

The Endless Sleepover is a webseries that explores the private worlds of artists, and listens in as they grapple with parenthood.

The Endless Sleepover

Combining decades of archival material, interviews with some of comedy's biggest stars, and new footage, this is a hilarious and poignant look at the life and career of Robert Klein.

Robert Klein Still Can't Stop His Leg

At 27, Kelsey Peterson dove into Lake Superior, off the shores of Wisconsin, and emerged paralyzed. Now, the former dancer struggles to redefine who she is while adapting to life with a disability.

Move Me

After a solar flare powers down her remote community, Alma discovers her husband Terry comatose. Suspecting he is having an out-of-body affair with an ex-lover, Alma attempts to bring him back to reality with help from Terry's estranged, drug-addled son and the leader of a new-age religion that specializes in astral travel.

The Missing Sun

Twenty-five years after Miguel died of AIDS, his niece tracks down his estranged lover and cracks open a Pandora's box of unresolved family drama.