Ciara holds a BA from Yale University, and is a graduate of Hawaiʻi's Kamehameha Schools. She has also benefited from fellowships with Firelight Media's Documentary Lab, the Sundance Institute and Time Warner Foundation, the Sundance Institute’s NativeLab, the Princess Grace Foundation, and IFP. In 2016, Ciara was honored to have been selected as the inaugural Sundance Institute Merata Mita Fellow and she is a current Princess Grace Awards Special Project grantee.
As a producer, Ciara has produced documentary content for film and television, managed independent features, and coordinated product placement and clearances for various platforms. Her directorial debut, the feature-length documentary OUT OF STATE, premiered in June 2017 at the LA Film Festival, and two weeks later won Best Documentary Feature Film at the Cayman International Film Festival. In 2016, he formed Clearing Barrel Productions, an independent, veteran-owned company dedicated to telling stories that challenge, inspire, & entertain through the media arts.Ĭiara Leinaʻala Lacy is a native Hawaiian filmmaker whose interest lies in crafting films with strong characters and investigative journalism, which challenge the creative and political status quo. Army officer in Germany and Iraq, experiences he credits with finding his voice on veterans issues and cultural understanding. Upon arriving in Los Angeles, Brayden gained selection to the 2014/2015 Writers Guild Foundation’s veterans' writing program at the WGA West later that year, his writing also gained him admission to the screenwriting accelerator at the Creative Lab Hawaiʻi.īrayden decided to pursue a career in film after first serving as a U.S. His most recent short film, Breakdown, gained acceptance to several festivals in North America and around the world, won the “audience award” at the March 2014 HollyShorts Screening in Hollywood and an “emerging artist” award at the 2014 Taos Shortz Festival in New Mexico.īefore moving to the subcontinent, Brayden lived in Australia, where he studied screenwriting as part of a master’s in creative writing at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Born and raised in Honolulu, Brayden spent spent five years studying direction at the Film & Television Institute of India.
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