Brianna Russell is a filmmaker and playwright originally from Newfoundland, Canada. Her work focuses on queerness in media, genre filmmaking, as well as the history and folklore of her childhood home. Brianna’s proof-of-concept short POSTER CHILD premiered at the Closing Night Gala of SJIWFF, and was a finalist in the CBC Short Film Face Off. She is alumni of festivals such as the National Film Festival for Talented Youth, Blood in the Snow Film Festival, and the Atlantic Internatinal Film Festival. Brianna is the 2022 recipient of the RBC Michelle Jackson Emerging Filmmaker Award, an alumni of the WIDC Career Advancement Module, and a participant in the 2024 Whistler Film Festival Screenwriters Lab. She was most recently a resident of the 2025 CFC’s Norman Jewison Writers’ Lab.