Brendan Bellomo is the recipient of a 2009 Student Academy Award® for Live Action Narrative. Bellomo’s passion for storytelling was first sparked when he was a child. Beginning his career in visual effects, he supervised the 2012 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner and Oscar® nominee for Best Picture, Beasts of the Southern Wild (Fox Searchlight). Most recently, Bellomo was the executive producer of the Netflix original film Chupa. Bellomo worked closely with Annie Leibovitz on the global exhibit, “Women: New Portraits” and designed the curriculum for the first visual effects course at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, which led him on the path to eventually meet his directing partner, Slava Leontyev.