Assembling the Team Part 3: Brian Nenno

Brian Nenno and I met at church when I was in 8th grade. He was that really cool older kid who made all the videos of the trips we went on. This meant that he had tons of attention starved kids always trying to be as cool as him by telling him what to film, and it was never a good idea.

Enter me, on choir tour, doing exactly that. I believe I pitched him some idea about me in a scarf and ski goggle in the middle of a park in San Francisco fighting other kids, and bless him, he saw it through. It was a horrible idea that Brian was patient enough to shoot when he could have easily said "you're dumb" and gone back to the cool kids.

Brian Nenno, so cool he might be the Unabomber

After that, we kept making videos together. The most notable were likely the History Project Theatre: Full Throttle series which included 2 Fast 2 Alamo, Apollo 13 Going on 30 (the best of the series and sadly not online), and Magician Impossible (link is only the trailer). These were spawned from history class assignments which we churned out typically with little to no script in short periods of time.

And sometimes Brian had to dress like this

We moved into public access television shows and web shorts, all featured on the 51 Productions site, but ultimately we always wanted to do a feature. Unfortunately, Brian has a real job and can't take a whole bunch of time off to hang out in closed cafes with weirdos.

He also has a wife. Ladies, hands off.

Fortunately, Brian was available to edit the movie. He somehow juggled a full time job, a wife, and this project but he managed to kick out a really good product. I say we applaud him for that.

And also for this photo. Bottom left.