filmmaker + storyteller. also enjoys knitting and sea monsters.
Mailli Brown is a writer/director whose short film Winter 1941 won Best Student Film at the Bigfork Independent Film Festival in 2021 and was an official selection in eight other festivals in 2022.
Unschooled from a young age, she wrote, directed, filmed, and produced the feature film Concerning Queens and Laundry Maids as a teenager. The movie tells the story of a young laundry maid who teams up with a runaway queen to save the kingdom from destruction. The film surpassed its crowdfunding goal, had a cast and crew of over 50 people, and took two years to complete.
More recently she directed Winter 1941, a beautiful portrait of a young woman whose life is changed forever after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Winter 1941 won Best Student Film at the Bigfork Independent Film Festival in 2021, was nominated for the Best Student Film award at the 2022 Nevada Women's Film Festival, and was an official selection at seven other festivals that year.
In 2022 she wrote, produced, and co-directed All the Books, a whimsical short film which garnered more than 10K views in its first four months online.
Brown was the cinematographer for The Ring and the Raven (post-production), a medieval drama feature from Ironside Entertainment.
She is fascinated by coming-of-age stories that explore the complexity, humor, nuance and depth of young peoples' experiences, especially in the historical and fantasy genres.
+ + + When not busy, she enjoys fairytales, walking in the woods, knitting socks, and working on stories for future films.