Bregman Films Production Office on El Centro Ave., by Hollywood Blvd. and Vine Street, 2020. Picture by Author (2020)
Film Production Company
Bregman Films (Est. 2014 - Current)
Auto-Ethnographical Short Documentary: F-1 Dutch Film Student
Film Organization And Publication
The Auteur (Est. 2020 - Current)
Film and Identity Publication The Auteur (online & in-print)
The Author, Orlando G. Bregman, at age 21 in West Los Angeles apartment in 1994, shortly after arrival in the US from homecountry, The Netherlands, through Film School acceptance in Los Angeles on an F-1 International Student Visa in 1992. Photo by The Laemmle Theatres co-worker and roommate Margarita B. (1994)
Independent Publisher of 3 Books of Essays (2024):
The Queer Case For Individual Rights
Notes For A New Independent Film Movement
Trans-Masculine In Hollywood
Currently Publishing Selected Essays on the Writers Website Medium
TBA:
Los Angeles (Pop-Up) Art-House Micro-Cinema with Coffee & Bar
Incl. Small Literary Press, Film & Identity Publication for Micro-Cinema
Potential everywhere. Picture by Author (2023)
Film/ Writing Memberships:
Film Independent
International Documentary Association
Outfest
Medium
Film/ Education:
Los Angeles City College, BA in Cinema, Los Angeles, US (1992–1995)
Video Production Course, Utrecht, Netherlands (1990–1991)
De Vlietschans High School, Leiden, Netherlands (1985–1989)
The Author in 2002 in front of James Dean Mural on the side of the garage on Vine St. off of Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood where Dean checked his car one last time before taking off for the races in Salinas on September 30 of 1955, and fatally crashing his Porsche Speedster around 6 PM in Cholame, CA instead. Picture by Mario Luza (2002)
Email exchange between Film Producer and former Production Manager Fred Caruso (John Sclessinger’s Midnight Cowboy (1969), John Cassavetes’ Husbands (1970), Sidney Lumet’s Network (1976) and myself about a manuscript I wrote titled Scenes of Idolatry and Resentment in 2004. Picture by Author (2004)
Official Flyer John Cassavetes Film Retrospective ‘Gena and John: A Cassavetes Retrospective’ (Los Angeles 2001) Copyright by Orlando G. Bregman, Bregman Films.
Producer (non-commissioned) of John Cassavetes Film Retrospective: ‘Gena and John: A Cassavetes Retrospective’ The Laemmle Theatres (2001)
Incl. 9 Films directed by John Cassavetes, Elaine May’s Mikey and Nicky, and Charles Kiselyak’s 2001 Criterion Box-Set documentary A Constant Forge; The Life and Art of John Cassavetes, as well as Q&A’s with Cast & Crew, and book sales of BU Film Professor Ray Carney’s Cassavetes on Cassavetes.
Press: LA Weekly, Venice Magazine, Cinemad Magazine
Sponsors: The Laemmle Theatres, Film Independent, Venice Magazine.
From L. to R.: Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel, Lelia Goldoni, and Bregman Films’ Orlando G. Bregman and Mario Luza after the screening of John Cassavetes’ A Woman Under the Influence (1974), starring his wife Gena Rowlands and actor friend Peter Falk. Frequent John Cassavetes actor Seymour Cassel and early Cassavetes actor from his first film Shadows (1959) joined us for Q&A’s or lengthy conversations, after every screening in the 3-month film retrospective at the Laemmle Theatres in Santa Monica and West Hollywood in 2001. Photo by Jen Tierney (2001)
Paid Film Work Experience (1990s):
Theatrical Exhibition Arthouse Theater Chain The Laemmle Theatres (1993–2001)
Incl. American Film Institute, American Film Market, Film Independent Screenings, International Documentary Association screenings, Outfest screenings, Premieres, Retrospectives, Academy Qualifiers, etc.
Me walking by a Dennis Hopper in Easy Rider Mural in 2016, on the street I used to live in 1993, Horizon Ave., nearby his house, or “The Compound” as it was called, on Indiana Ave., in Venice, CA where I frequently ran into him browsing the many shops along Windward Ave. on the Circle. This is a still taken from footage of my short documentary F-1 DUTCH FILM STUDENT (2016)
Orlando G. Bregman
(they/ he)
Writer/Publisher at The Auteur
Documentary Filmmaker at Bregman Films
LIST OF ESSAYS (2014–2024)
(A few ESSAYS from 3 BOOKS to be published soon)
All Essays Written by Orlando G. Bregman
All Rights Reserved (2024)
Official I-20 Letter of Admission at Los Angeles City College’s Film Program (BA in CINEMA) for my F-1 International Student Visa as Film Student from the Netherlands in 1992. Picture by Author (1992)
The Author revisiting favorite bookstore City Lights Books in North Beach, San Francisco, CA in 2003, with parents this time, after many visits alone or with like-minded friends throughout the 1990s, and always inspired by the Beats. Photo by father, Bram Bregman (2003)
Essay Writer TRANS-MASCULINE IN HOLLYWOOD/Documentary Filmmaker F-1 DUTCH FILM STUDENT/Founder THE AUTEUR Film And Identity Publication & Film Org (2024) TM
