Daily Inspiration: Meet Brenton Bent

Today we’d like to introduce you to Brenton Bent.

Hi Brenton, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
In Highschool I made video editing a hobby, but when it was time to graduate, I knew I had to choose a valid, fun, and long-term career path. My other interests in Science and Agriculture either required too much academics or had a limit to how much I could influence the world so video editing it was. I attended the Art Institutes to hone my video editing skills and in the process, learned that I had the potential and passion to become versatile in the world of filmmaking.

In 2017, I founded a number of small film companies with a few college friends to make our short films, and passion projects and work as local videographers. It helped me experience a lot of the industry in my early days. As time moved forward and people move in different directions, I found myself launching my own film and media company, “B Sinima” that I currently run today, taking on a number of narrative films as well as corporate and small business-associated projects.

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
I wouldn’t call it the smoothest road by a long shot. Creating a film from scratch is no easy feat, let alone having to deal with drama within your crew, your personal life issues, and of course the ever-looming curse of not having enough money to achieve your goals and survive at the same time.

It took a lot of foreseeing and pre-planning on my end to come up with strategies to make my company work to the capacity it does now. To make the films and tell the stories I wanted to tell on shoestring budgets and have everyone else on board feel like they played their part successfully by the end of each project. But honestly, that’s what the world of being creative is all about, being able to express yourself through the art regardless of your personal limits, mentally, physically, or emotionally.

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
So I am a Filmmaker by trade. I run a media company where I handle everything from writing screenplays and pre-producing photoshoots to directing and cinematography work on sets and post-production of those films after.

While I specialize in writing and directing Sci-Fi narratives and experimental dramas with other elements like comedy, action and philosophy all thrown in, currently, I am always brought up in conversations for my ability to capture choreographed fight scenes for action-based films and my quick camera setup/movement for on the fly gorilla filming.

I’ll have to say I’m most proud of being able to write stories well within my doability. A lot or writers I know often tell me they get such great and grandiose ideas to write but later on, they find out it’s not the most feasible for them to pull off. When I write, I write with my resources in mind. I know what type of visuals I can and can’t achieve and make my stories as intriguing as possible around those. It’s like picturing the process of making the film while you’re writing each scene. Having that foresight in the beginning stages of a project I feel set me apart from other filmmakers that I’ve gotten the opportunity to speak to and work closely with. Especially pairing that strategy with the type of high concepts I like to come up with. I am big on sci-fi and fantasy stories because I can still tell that simple drama tale in a huge complex world. However I always put the characters and their journeys first so that the however extravagant the setting can be, the audience won’t get lost in it because they’re following characters they can easily put themselves in and relate with.

Where we are in life is often partly because of others. Who/what else deserves credit for how your story turned out?
I can’t really say I had mentors so much as teachers and friends who helped me when I asked. In the film, its very hard if not impossible to make something awesome on your own, so you need a team to help you set up a light or carry stand or just re-read a script for grammatical errors. The list of people who’ve supported my art and ambitions is long beyond comprehension and I’m grateful to everyone I’ve met in the past six years of my career who helped me on a project in some way or who’s given me quality feedback.

Pricing:

• Director Of Photography – $750 Day Rate
• Music Video Production -$1500
• Commercial Production- $2000

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.bsinima.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bsinima
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bsinima
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/B_Sinima
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L9grpzU8zs
• Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/b-sinima-charlotte?osq=video
• Other: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10433057/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1