Orlando Bryant

Orlando Bryant Jr (born March 14th, 1990) is a Barbadian writer, producer, and director. In 2005, Orlando discovered his love for filmmaking while doing an after-school filmmaking project with a delegate from the BBC. As a highly creative individual, he found that filmmaking was the perfect thing to let out all his creativity in storytelling and this passion was strengthened when the film that he and his team created was entered in a regional competition (held by the British Film Institute) and won the prize for best short film and original concept. He carried on this passion by studying for a BTEC National Diploma in Media Production at Croydon College which introduced him to his secondary passion of photography. Bryant Jr then continued his education in filmmaking by studying for a Bachelor of Arts in Media Production at Derby University, but he became disillusioned with the course as he found that he was studying modules that he wasn't particularly interested in and thus left the university in 2012. Bryant Jr didn't return to filmmaking until late 2017 but during that hiatus he managed to forge out a reasonably successful Taekwondo career, representing Great Britain on the international stage on various occasions and almost gaining qualification to the London 2012 Olympic games. In October 2017, Bryant Jr began a course in Moving Image with Raindance Film School and since then his filmmaking career has gone from strength to strength and has been involved in 13 other short films in senior roles like 1st Assistant Director and Unit Production Manager. Bryant Jr, officially registered his company Trident Visuals on May 3rd, 2018 and a month later he completed his first film Grizedale in which he wrote, produced and directed as part of the Raindance Student HND course. Shortly after Grizedale's completion it was shown at the Raindance HND showcase and was voted as one of the best short films of the day which resulted in Bryant Jr's debut short film being selected to for the 26th Raindance Film Festival.