Brandon Yadegari Moreno
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Biography
Brandon is a multilingual documentary cinematographer and director based in San Francisco, CA. Through an intimate filmmaking style, he strives to tell deeply reported, character-driven stories that humanize and uplift participants and their communities. He is a 2025 SFFILM FilmHouse Resident and 2025 Big Sky Pitch participant, where he’s developing his forthcoming feature, THE PRISON OUTSIDE. His most recent short, MOTHER (2024) has screened at over a dozen festivals across North America and Europe, including Mill Valley Film Festival, Frameline, and NewFest. Brandon’s recent cinematography credits include Observer (2025, CPH:DOX), Quiet On Set (2024, HBO Max), and VOCES: Latino Vote (2024, PBS), as well as the forthcoming feature The Last Class (2025). His other work has appeared on FRONTLINE PBS, in The Atlantic, The Guardian, High Country News, and KQED while being recognized by the duPont, Peabody, and Scripps Howard awards. Brandon holds a master’s degree from UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and is a founding partner at Family Pictures, a full-service production company comprised of journalists and filmmakers who combine original reporting and cinematic vision to craft non-fiction stories.
Known For
Discover the untold story of the toxic and abusive environment inside '90s kids' TV. Hear harrowing accounts from former child stars and crew who probe the balance of power in the industry and reveal an era that inflicted lasting wounds still felt today.
Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV
American political economist, professor, author, and social media sensation Robert Reich teaches his final "Wealth and Poverty" class to 1,000 students at UC Berkeley, ending a 40-year career that reached 40,000 students. One thousand fill the biggest lecture hall on the UC Berkeley campus, the last class to receive Reich's wisdom and exhortations not to accept that the world has to stay the way it is. His belief in the next generation's ability to take on the fight is inspiring.
The Last Class
In San Francisco, a city known for its queer community and bustling gay nightlife, there hasn't been a lesbian bar for almost a decade. Driven by nostalgia for a time when queer women had spaces, self-identified dyke Malia Spanyol sets out to build one for the next generation of women and femmes.