The Old Brood" by Vincent Veloso & Matt Meinsen makes the 2024 Big Apple Film Festival quarterfinals
Excited to announce that "The Old Brood" written by Vincent Veloso & Matt Meinsen made the 2024 Big Apple Film Festival quarterfinals! Now, onto the semis and finals! Fingers crossed
"The Old Brood": After a Special forces veteran is murdered at the V.A., the victim’s widow calls on his war buddies to find out who is responsible and avenge his death, which ultimately reveals sinister old wounds and darker secrets."
Writer Statement
Vincent Veloso: At first it seems a mystery revenge story, but as the action and drama progress, we delve into the complicated areas of PTSD, suicide, grieving, and the bonds between veterans and families in fictionalized 1980s Reagan Era Cold War missions.
Matt Meinsen: “The Old Brood” is not a war film as much as a period film about the lifelong effects that war can have on those involved. Taking place in the year 1993, we meet the team through a series of flashbacks to times of both war and peace, in which they encounter humor and tragedy, love and loss and forge lifelong familial bonds that won’t be broken, no matter the physical or psychological costs
Writer Biography - Vincent Veloso, Matthew Meinsen
Vincent Veloso is an Asian Filipino-American actor, model, multi-award winning: writer/producer/director, entrepreneur,17 instrument performing musician, martial artist (Kodokan judo, Tekken-ryu jujutsu, Nihon Goshin Aikido) & trained salsa ballroom dancer.
An NYU graduate, he acted alongside Sean Patrick Flannery, Michael Jai White & Mark Dacascos and did stuntwork in "Assault on VA-33", now on The Roku Channel. He is Officer Stevens in the film "Equal Standard" (Amazon Prime) with Ice-T & Treach, and is the cartoon voice of Edward Chin in "Ethan Art Venture" on KWELI TV and Amazon Prime.
Vincent joined Snoop Dog, Haley Joel Osment, & the voice cast of the police drama podcast #MATTER on iheartradio. He also joined the voice cast of the Ambie award nominee "What Happened in Skinner?" ,the thriller, mystery podcast featured as Spotify's top 5 best new audio dramas
Vincent wrote/produced/acted in & directed "Changelings"(Amazon Prime) with Catherine Curtin, Eric Roberts, Karlee Perez, Lauren Francesca, Jeffrey Gurian, Scott Churchson, Stormi Maya, Julia Maggio & Jacob Berger.
He portrayed Officer Alvarez in the Daytime Emmy Nominated series "Doomsday" (Amazon Prime and Shudder), appeared in "Marvel's Daredevil" (Netflix) UCLA professor Terrance Tao in the series "Math Warriors", and the Maestro piano player in "The Comedian" with Robert Deniro & Harvey Keitel. SAGAFTRA / ASCAP / AFM 16-248
Matt Meinsen is a New York based actor and proud member of the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. Matt studied at SUNY under the direction of Max Schaefer, whom he credits as his acting mentor, and also had the privilege to study voice and work side by side with the late Tony Award winner, Shepard Coleman.
In 2012, Matt made the decision to take his lifelong love of the arts to the next level and pursue professional opportunities. After 18 years of local and regional stage work, and portraying some of the greatest characters of the stage, he has now begun to expand his resume beyond stage work, and has recently set his focus on the crafts of film and television.
He was seen regularly for 5 seasons as D.S. Agent Matt, the perpetually grumpy security detail for Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord (Tea Leoni) on the CBS hit “Madam Secretary,” and has since completed work on several films, both short and feature length, including the critically acclaimed Netflix film “The Half of It” from director Alice Wu, winner of the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival’s Best US Narrative Feature and NBC’s “The Blacklist.”
Stage highlights include Max Berber in “Bent,” for which he received the Outstanding Achievement in Acting award from the Theater Association of New York, a multi-award winning production of “Dracula” which he directed while also playing the titular role, Lawrence Garfinkle in “Other People’s Money,” Clifford Anderson in “Deathtrap,” Uncle Louie Kurnitz in “Lost in Yonkers,” John Proctor in “The Crucible,” Tony Wendice in “Dial ‘M’for Murder,” and originated the lead role of Heavyweight Champion boxer Max Schmeling in the biographical drama “The Measure of a Man.”
Matt continues to pursue new challenges in the entertainment industry, and currently resides in Orange County, NY with his wife and 2 daughters.
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FESTIVAL INFORMATION
Big Apple Film Festival will take place November 18 - December 12 at Look Dine-In Cinemas at 657 West 57th Street, New York, NY, with additional Los Angeles screenings taking place at Look Dine-In Cinemas, 128 Artsakh Ave, Glendale, CA.
The festival includes theatrical screenings, NYC premieres, filmmaker Q and A's, Industry Conferences, Meet the Agents and Managers Conference and receptions.
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