Breton Tyner-Bryan's WEST OF FRANK UK Premiere at London Fashion Film Festival

Breton Tyner-Bryan’s Highly Awarded West of Frank will make it's UK premiere screeing at the London Fashion Film Festival, nominated for Best LGBTQ Film and Best LGBTQ Talent. The Broadway Dance Drama Short recently won the Audience Award and Best Experimental at AFFI Berlin and Barcelona Festivals. Multi-award-winning producer/director/writer/actor/choreographer Breton Tyner-Bryan celebrates her 3rd consecutive year participating as an award-winning filmmaker in the world’s most highly regarded selection of groundbreaking commercial talent.

Recent Winner of Best Director at NYCTVFF, Best Director at NYCIFF,  West of Frank has received significant praise globally winning at Berlin Commercial Raw Selection-Cultural Impact Award, Emberlight Film Festival, Around Films International Film Festival Berlin Audience Award, Around Films International Film Festival Barcelona Audience Award, Paris International Festival, ARRFF Berlin Best Experimental, Berlin Indie Awards Best Experimental, Paris Lady Movie Makers Festival, Palermo International Film Festival, Tokyo Shorts, Golden Film Festival Los Angles, Newport Beach Film Festival .Dance Selection, and the Chelsea Film Festival. Additionally Tyner-Bryan, has garnered significant praise from numerous reviewers at Film Threat, Deadline, and Variety, recently premiering Bloom and Let Her GO alongside ESCAPE, an immersive film installation at New York University’s Gallatin Galleries that marked her New York City gallery debut.

West of Frank was filmed at the iconic Jefferson Market Library formerly a courthouse in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village and features a cast of 12 Broadway performers, symbolically representing of the 12 stories of the now demolished Women’s House of Detention. This film features New York City local talent, including Gilbert Bolden lll (New York City Ballet), Rhaamell Burke-Missouri (Hadestown Broadway, King Kong Broadway), Elisa Clark (Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Mark Morris Dance Group), James Jude Johnson (Fiddler On the Roof), Heather Parcells (A Chorus Line Broadway, Chicago), Randy Castillo (Wicked Broadway, An American in Paris Broadway ), Savannah Cranford (INVICTA, Retrofactory Theater C), Kenny Corrigan (Paul Taylor Dance Company, America’s Got Talent), Alexa De Barr (West Side Story Broadway, Moulin Rouge), Dajuan Harris (Madonna, Todrick Hall), Mimi Thompkins (San Francisco Ballet, Arizona Ballet), and Tatiana Stewart (INVICTA, The Deuce). 

WEST OF FRANK explores the metaphysical energy of the historic Jefferson Market Library, formerly a courthouse attached to the Women’s House of Detention in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. This film lives as a testament to spiritual freedom, and recognition of public spaces as an equalizer of accessibility. The characters in the books of the library exist in a suspended reality, bearing witness to the injustices acted upon women and transmasculine prisoners by medical professionals in the American criminal justice system. "An art deco 12-story prison from 1932 to 1974 in New York City, the prison housed such inmates as Angela Davis, Afeni Shakur, Andrea Dworkin, Mae West, Valerie Solanas, Ethel Rosenberg, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and Sara Harris.” said producer, director, writer, choreographer, editor, Breton Tyner-Bryan. 

WEST OF FRANK is executive produced, directed, written, choreographed, edited, by Tyner- Bryan who also served as the costume designer (Netflix MOST LGBTQ Channel), sound designer, and casting director. Thomas Shomo (Get Lucky, William Grant and Sons) is Director of Photography, Colorist Ryan Sciaino (Porter Robinson, NIKE), and composer Ai Ishikki (Juilliard, Berklee) masterfully created the luminously haunting score. WEST OF FRANK is produced by Breton Follies Productions. 

Tickets are available to the London Fashion Film Festival which will take place September 19th-20th  of 2024. Visit their website for more information at https://www.londonfashionfilmfestival.com/programme-and-tickets.