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Park La Brea

Park La Brea is a psychological thriller about a woman whose fractured sense of identity begins to distort her perception of reality, forcing her to confront the patterns shaping her inner world and ask... is madness a choice?

  • Bevin Bru
    Director
  • Bevin Bru
    Writer
  • Leon Farmer
    Producer
  • Bevin Bru
    Producer
  • Bevin Bru
    Key Cast
    "Cris"
    ABC's RJ Decker
  • Paul Butcher
    Key Cast
    "Sebastian"
    Zoey 101
  • Tessa Williams
    Key Cast
    "Gemma"
  • Adam Milo Smalley
    Music Supervisor
    Lion King, Gladiator
  • Juan Ignacio Cabrera
    Colorist
    Prometheus, The Alienist
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    27 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    May 11, 2026
  • Production Budget:
    20,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Bevin Bru

Bevin Bru is a Cuban-American filmmaker whose work centers on the instability of identity and the ways perception distorts reality. With a background in performance, she brings a psychologically driven, character-first approach to directing. Her debut short, Park La Brea, explores the tension between awareness and behavior through an intimate and immersive lens.

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Director Statement

Park La Brea was born from my desire to explore the relationship between self-awareness and personal responsibility. The story is rooted in personal experience, but shaped into a broader exploration of how internal patterns influence perception, behavior, and identity.
My background as an actress informs my approach to directing, with a focus on performance, emotional truth, and psychological realism. With this film, I wanted to move beyond interpreting character and into constructing the full internal world around it.
At its core, Park La Brea asks a question I continue to return to: once we become aware of our patterns, do we have the ability to choose differently—and if we do, does that awareness make us responsible for change?
While grounded in a specific psychological lens, my goal is to create something universal—an immersive, character-driven exploration of identity, perception, and the tension between who we are and who we have the capacity to become.