Brad Jayne

Independent Filmmaker and Commercial Producer

Brad  Jayne  is an independent filmmaker and commercial producer based in Charleston, SC. His hallmark is highly-imaginative projects created with practicality and fiscally-sound approaches.  His long-standing relationships with major corporations, agencies, and non-profit organizations is a testament to this professionalism; the celebration of his work by major film festivals and media organizations, such as Sundance, Tribeca, Palm Springs, Austin, FantasticFest , Raindance, the American Jazz Museum, and hundreds more demonstrates the quality and creativity of his product. 

He has also built programs that support the media arts in the Southeast and the world. This includes the South Carolina Film Commission's INDIE GRANTS, which funds and produces high-quality short film projects by South Carolina filmmakers. Another is the WIDE ANGLE PROJECT, a film and television production lab for independent content creators. The program works with creative entrepreneurs as they develop film, television, and streaming products, with a broader goal of developing an in-state industry of entrepreneurship within the $300B global film and video market. 

Though traveling far and wide,  Brad  is proudly a Southern storyteller and filmmaker; as a son of the South, he recognizes the immense resources and rich culture in his home region, and has dedicated himself to the advancement of its communities and production industry.

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Stories

  • DESIGN | NextLens Reel Skills

    When people watch films, they remember how those films make them feel. But what they’re really responding to is what they see and how all of the visual elements, working cohesively on screen, create that emotional response. Greetings. I am Shayla Raquel, a director and...
  • CAMERA | NextLens Reel Skills

    The camera conveys information, visceral understanding, and tone. This is visual storytelling and a fundamental part of filmmaking. I'm Owen Hamilton, a director of photography in Charleston, and I'm here to help Next Lens filmmakers. A director of photography is responsible...
  • EDITING | NextLens: Reel Skills

    Fort Mill filmmaker and editor Thomas Torrey shares how video editing is storytelling in motion, using images, rhythm, and pacing to shape emotion and meaning. Video editing is another stage of writing, but instead of using words to form a sentence, we're using images to...
  • STORY | NextLens: Reel Skills

    Starting Monday, October 27 for six weeks meet film industry professionals who are from South Carolina, sharing foundational techniques in storytelling, camera operation, lighting, production design, sound and editing. Columbia native director and writer Shayla Raquel...