Gladys’ Beautiful Beard Balm
Beauty is as thick as your beard.
ABOUT
Jerome is the Most Beautiful Man in Baltimore, a title given to only the most giftedly handsome men in a culture where beautiful people live a life of privilege and homely people are second-class citizens. On the day of the big beauty contest, Jerome’s beard goes haywire and he loses his looks. He must cross to the homely part of town to retrieve Gladys’ Beautiful Beard Balm while facing a city curfew whose prejudice and injustice he only now sees.
YEAR 2018
EMAIL brianhaguereynolds@gmail.com Website:
CAST & CREW CREDITS
DIRECTED BY Brian H. Reynolds
SCREENPLAY BY Brian H. Reynolds
PRODUCED BY MICA’s MFA Filmmaking Program | Brian H. Reynolds | Brenda B. Reynolds
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Minji Kim
EDITED BY Brian H. Reynolds | Nicholas Kovacic
MUSIC BY Marc Pittman
LOCATION SOUND AND ADR Christopher Broholm
PRINCIPAL CAST
Brian H. Reynolds | Fred Nelson | Tiana Nguyen | Eduardo Bernas | Hugh A. Taylor |
Imani Edwards | Michael Smigiel
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
Gladys’ Beautiful Beard Balm, and really all of my films, reflect my inner corn and tell my simple stories. I believe in the power of the story.
Stories allow us to connect empathetically with each other and to see that we are not all that different. Stories must be genuine. Humor is not the sugar to make the medicine palatable; it is the medicine. Otherwise, the film becomes dishonest propaganda.
My medicine is simple: “Hey guys, we’re not around that long. Let’s treat each other a little nicer.”
DIRECTOR BIO
Brian H. Reynolds is an actor, director, and screenwriter. He earned a BFA in Theatre, cum laude, from Roger Williams University and an MBA from the University of Maryland University College. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Filmmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Brian is a member of the Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) and the Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA).
FILM AND PRODUCTION STILLS
AWARDS
FULL FILM
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Brian H. Reynolds is an actor, director, and screenwriter. He earned a BFA in Theatre, cum laude, from Roger Williams University and an MBA from the University of Maryland University College. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Filmmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Brian is a member of the Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) and the Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA).
(Update provided in May 2018)