![]() ![]() ![]() In Jim Vorel's 2014 list of the 100 best B movies for Paste magazine, Breen's film I Am Here. Since then, Breen's films have been picked up by arthouse theaters and film festivals, including the 2012 " Butt-Numb-A-Thon" and the 2013 Seattle International Film Festival. His first feature film, Double Down, was featured on RedLetterMedia's Best of the Worst online series, whilst Fateful Findings was covered by RedLetterMedia along with other film critics on YouTube. In February 2023, Cade: The Tortured Crossing won the award for "Best Fantasy Film" at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival, before its world premiere on February 25, 2023, at the Regal Cinemas L.A. On December 16, 2022, Breen confirmed the title of his sequel to Twisted Pair is Cade: The Tortured Crossing. On October 3, 2022, Breen confirmed that filming on his latest project had wrapped via his Twitter account. In March 2019, Breen confirmed that he would direct a Twisted Pair sequel. Breen's fifth feature film, Twisted Pair, was released in October 2018. Breen's third film, Fateful Findings, was compared to Wiseau's The Room by the former film's North American distributor Panorama Entertainment. Some critics have compared Breen's films to outsider art. Breen has said that his films have a "sense of social responsibility" and reflect the "mystical or paranormal side of life." In other films, his protagonist is a god-like, messianic, or otherwise chosen figure Pass Thru, for example, has Breen playing a messianic entity who arrives from the future to wipe out 300 million "bad people" to usher in a new era of peace. Fateful Findings features Breen as a hacker imbued with supernatural powers by a magical stone he found as a child, who uses his skills to expose government and corporate corruption, while in Double Down he plays a rogue government super-agent. The characters he portrays hold advanced and often superhuman abilities and use them in grandiose struggles against corrupt forces and institutions. Film īreen writes, produces, directs, and stars in each of his own films. This second feature proved to be a breakout hit, reintroducing familiar motifs and garnering Breen "a lot of attention." Since then, he has established a reputation as a cult amateur filmmaker. In the years that followed, Breen continued working as an architect as a means to finance his next film: I Am Here. He gained a small following after releasing his first film, Double Down. He studied architecture and initially became a licensed architect in California. Neil Breen grew up on the East Coast of the United States, and developed an interest in film and filmmaking at an early age. Breen's films have garnered a cult following for their low-budget production values, acting, writing, and editing. Since 2005, he has written, directed, independently produced, and starred in six theatrical feature films. Neil Breen (born November 23, 1958) is an American filmmaker and actor. ![]()
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