Brandon Hall is a writer, producer, and director who was the Grand Jury Prize winner at the 2018 SIFF (Seattle International Film Festival) Screenplay Competition for "Youth Decay", a teen comedy about the struggles of an all-girl punk band trying to change the world. His superhero satire script, "SuperZero", won Best TV Pilot at the 2018 LA Comedy Festival Screenplay Competition. He spends most days creating and producing content under his Punk Riot Productions banner. Brandon earned his MFA in Film and Television Production from USC, where he became the first student to complete a webseries as his thesis. He graduated with Highest Honors from the University of Michigan with degrees in English Literature and Film and Video Studies. There, his feature length screenplay, "Old People," won the storied Hopwood Award and the Kasdan Award. His thesis film, Dylan, won best film at the 2006 UMEC film festival. His short comedic film, Delusions of Love: A Case Study in Jealousy and 19th Century Formal Wear, was screened in the Big Apple Film Festival in New York and the Crossroads Film Festival in Jackson, Mississippi.