We recently connected with Ty Brueilly and have shared our conversation below.

Ty, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. What sort of legacy are you hoping to build. What do you think people will say about you after you are gone, what do you hope to be remembered for?

When I work on anything that I have true love and care for, I make a conscious effort to respect the culture of said area the best I can, in hopes to enhance the culture and do my part to help it evolve and still stay true to it’s foundation. The best example of that is my hometown, my city of Asheboro, North Carolina. Aside from five years at Appalachian State University, five years living in and around Shanghai, China and a few years of cumulative travel, I’ve been here in Asheboro the rest of my life. So when I create, when I plan, when I manuever it ultimately comes back to improving, expanding and helping diversify this city with respect to it’s past but not being stagant by it or afraid to move forward. With that being said, I hope to build a Legacy as a person, and with my family that helped usher Asheboro into a more culturally aware and accepted place on the map and I hope that people can see that through the hundreds of various pieces of art I have created, my decisions and inputs in boardrooms, the meetings and activist interests I have been a crucial part of and the hundreds of events I have planned and been a part of in my time on earth.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

We kind of went of most of this during our last conversation, but I feel like I want to focus on my film work only for this segement. My filmwork began at the end of 2015, I had just gotten a new camera, for our honeymoon. I ended up totally messing up most of that footage because I had the auto focus on during filming, so there is the awful robot sounding click and zoom that comes with the constant attempt of focusing on the camera, but it intrigued me to know how powerful that piece of technology was and what it was capable of if I just learned it. I playfully filmed a few months until a family member passed away from an overdose after a lengthy battle with addiction. Once that happened, I felt the urgency to put together something as a form of grief therapy and to help make sense of the situation and learn about others that may be addicted. So in the span of a couple weeks I created SHUCKS and a set of characters, costumed them, and wrote a story that I was determined to film with my wife and another family member that was effected by the death. During this I realized how unique and sound my personal composition was, how thrilling it was to be able to take thoughts and ideas from my head and turn them into visions that everyone could see and make their own choices on how they are affected. How beautiful something can be and how binding it can be with audiences. It was a dark story. We finished it very quickly and had a legitimate premiere at Sunset Theatre in downtown Asheboro and it was even on Amazon Prime for two years. Since then I have filmed documentaries for restaurants, over 30 music videos, politcal campaign ads, educational videos, NAACP projects, commercials, full plays, dancing and have won over 200 awards in film festival circuits, all while still using that camera from 2015 as one of my main cameras.
The problems I solve for clients would be bridging that idea to vision gap for them. I offer almost everything that can be thought of when it comes to filming. However I am very selective with clients I choose to work with and how I choose my time. My family is first. My sanity is right up there with it, so I can tell pretty quickly if we are a good match by the first few minutes of interaction.
What sets me apart from others is that you can usually tell it’s my work in the first few moments. Like it used to be in the hip hop world when you heard a beat you knew it was Dre, Timbaland, Ski or whatever, when you see a film by Brueilly, 9 out of 10 times you already know without being told.
When it comes to my film work, I am most proud of SHUCKS and the cinematic word/universe that I have been able to build with that. I feel like this is something that can leave a lasting impression on the independent film circuit and it’s potential pretty vast.

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

This kind of changes with time, but thus far after 20+ years of creating, the most rewarding aspect is looking back at the massive amounts of art I have been able to put out into the world. It’s easy to get so wrapped up in moving forward that that I forget all the hard work and all the pieces I have created, but I’m telling you there hasn’t been a better feeling of fullfilment than when I look back and remind myself of that, it really is an instant motivator to keep creating.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

live by a code. that’s it. it’s been my motto and manta, our motto and mantra since our 5th anniversary and we are closing in on our 20th. I wear it on my neck everyday and people always ask what does it mean. And it’s simple. Have a code of your own and stick to it. Live by it, learn by it, lead by it, love by it. Implement it in your household and find others who have theirs and follows it. It does not have to be the same code as the next person’s, it has to be yours and what moral code and compass you have and rarely should you ever stray from it.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.filmandfashionbybrueilly.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livebyacode/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/therealtybru
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ty-bru-b2b11866
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/i/flow/login?redirect_after_login=%2FTyBru
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/MTTSTV

Image Credits
Megan Brueilly, Ty Brueilly