We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Brittney Greer a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Brittney , appreciate you joining us today. What’s been the most meaningful project you’ve worked on?

ThebHappy Halloween feature film is by far the most meaningful project I’ve worked on. I’ve been a huge fan of Halloween (the holiday) and horror films since I was a kid. It was something I could disappear into. In college I started writing a slasher script that had both my love of Halloween and Slashers all in one pumpkin covered basket. I worked on it on and off for about ten years before I started to talk to a friend about us making the dream a reality, and making a feature film.

We made a proof of concept video to try and get funding and my mom started doing bake sales in my hometown and people came out to help us get the film into production. Just having the love and support of all my family and friends, on top of the support and trust from our cast and crew for me to direct HH has meant the world to me. From start to finish its been about a 15 year process. Blood, sweat, tears, and a lot of pumpkins.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I’ve always been a huge fan of movies and television. As a kid, coming from a small town I never realized that this was something people did for a living.

The older I got the more I wanted to be apart of that world, so I went to MSU in Springfield Mo and attending the film program there and made tons of good connections with local filmmakers. I focused more on script writing, directing, and started to dabble in makeup fx.

I worked on smaller web series like the Drifter Broken Road series, Stage Fright, Strange Happenings to short films like South of Swan Creek and Pushing Envelopes, to features like Eldritch USA, and Happy Halloween. Something I love about indie filmmaking is it really helps you learn to problem solve. When you don’t have a money you have to learn more about your craft and learn how to make things feel like you have a big budget.

I enjoy writing and directing but I just love being on set and helping. I’ve went from directing, to being a PA, to helping grip, back to directing. I like to help people realize their dreams. Filmmaking is very much a team effort.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

One of the most rewarding things is seeing the final product.

You work countless hours, in weird conditions. You are constantly battling with locations, props, actors and crew schedules. Many days you ask yourself “why am I doing this?” But when it’s all said ans done, ans you get to watch your film all the sleepless nights, all the stress just melts away. And you have this thing that no one can take away from you.

Do you have any insights you can share related to maintaining high team morale?

On set having a good team is one of the most important things you can have. Even without a big budget, if you have a cohesive team that works well together and has the same goal in mind anything is possible.

The best advice to keeping morale high on set in my opinion is to make sure you are always being thankful for your team’s time and talent. And also making sure you are giving positive affirmations. Film sets are usually long hours so staying positive and thankful to those around you goes a long way.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: britt_greer_
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HappyHalloweenFilm?mibextid=ZbWKwL

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Curtis Stout