John Bryant, C0-Writer/Director/Producer
John Bryant was born and raised in Austin, TX.  He started “making movies” in Junior High -- recruiting his friends to star in his “films” and using borrowed school equipment to shoot and edit his projects.  After premiering his first short film, “Alien Space Monkeys Invade Earth” to a group of 8th Grade students, he knew making movies was what he wanted to do when he “grew up.” 

John graduated in December 1997 from the University of Texas at Austin with a Radio-Television-Film degree. After a brief stint in Los Angeles, where he pursued a screenwriting career, he returned to his hometown - Austin and began to produce small films for his friends and himself. 

Two of his most recent works, the short films “Oh My God” and “Momma’s Boy,” both premiered at the Sundance Film Festival (Oh My God, 2005, Momma’s Boy 2006).   “Oh My God” went on to win the Prix de Canal+ Award at Europe’s largest short film festival (The Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival), and Film Threat named it the best short film of 2005.

After his success in the short-film world, John moved into making features.  In 2007 he produced the acclaimed feature “Baghead”, written and directed by his longtime colleagues Jay & Mark Duplass.  The film world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008 and was acquired by Sony Picture Classics, who released the film in the summer of 2008.  Later, that same year, John had the opportunity to direct his first feature -- a comedy called, “The Overbrook Brothers” -- which was one of eight films selected for the narrative competition in SXSW 2009.

Jason Foxworth, Co-Writer
Jason Foxworth starred in the multi-award-winning short film "Oh My  God" - and soon after quickly went to work on his second project with  John Bryant, "Momma's Boy".  Both films world premiered at The Sundance Film Festival (2005 and 2006 respectively).  The success of  "Momma's Boy" led Jason and John to pen a feature screenplay together  - The Overbrook Brothers.