This episode was recorded in November 2025.

In this episode Gregory sat down with Bryan Ribeiro, the co-founder of the Mount Vernon Independent Film Festival (est 2025)

Bryan is a video editor, motion graphics animator, camera operator, and filmmaker. He was born in Queens. He grew up in Brazil and the USA. He started his creative pursuits at a young age- making cat videos using Windows Movie Maker. Initially studying game design, he realized the fun and storytelling aspect in time-based work and shifted to film and video. He studied Design and Technology at Parsons the New School for Design. The well-rounded course took detours into graphic design, web and game coding, woodworking, fashion, and more. After graduating, he met with some like-minded people and started making music videos, shorts, and completed his first feature film- psychological thriller.
Since then, Bryan's edited for companies such as Disney Streaming, Viacom, MTV, DailyMail, NFL, AMC, Sony, Universal, STXFilms, Macy's, and Empire Design (trailer house). Right now, his short film Braising is currently on the film festival circuit amassing several screenings, awards, and selections on the global level. He also founded a local film festival in his town- the Mount Vernon Independent Film Festival.
Bryan is a huge game and film nerd. He's also geeky about television and graphic novels. A dork about most things actually. He is an avid swimmer. He loves the water and considers himself a nautical individual, though he's drowned like 3 times. He also enjoys exploring his Brazilian background and attempting Portuguese, playing badminton with friends, taking care of his many cats with his partner, and writing in his beat-up idea journal for future projects.
Bryan currently resides in Mount Vernon, a suburb of New York City.

The social home for Mount Vernon's premiere film festival! Founded by @bryanfilm123 and @dominiqueofskyrim

https://mountvernoniff.com/