Amanda Brennan decided on a life behind the camera in preschool, when she turned down the role of Dorothy in the annual production of “The Wizard of Oz” and offered to help ‘boss people around’ instead. Brennan’s interests lie in stories that explore adolescence and the idea of family. She likes to blur the line between reality and fantasy, fact and fiction, comedy and drama. Her feature-length script “The Dust” was the 2014 recipient of the Sloan Foundation Feature Film Development Award and the 2015 recipient of the Sloan Producer’s Grant from Film Independent. Her graduate thesis short film “Goodbye Casey Trade” played around the country and earned her the Best Director Award at the Boston Underground Film Festival. Brennan helmed the five-part comedic webseries “Second Coming” (currently on the festival circuit). Her feature-length script “Goodbye Casey Trade”, an alum of the Tribeca Film Institute, is currently in development.