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Bryan E. Hall, MPW (Writer/Producer/Director)
Bryan Eugene Hall (born December 5, 1960) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, director, editor, and composer. He is the founder of Aware Productions, Inc., an independent film production company located in US/Japan. Hall is best known for writing, directing, and composing the feature film, Paper Boys, {{cite web|title=Paper Boys IMDB|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1391110/

Early life and education
Hall was born in Rome, GA, but moved to Brevard, NC, where he attended Brevard High School and began his artistic career as a singer and writer. He sang in the high school chorus and won entry into the NC All-State Chorus 3 years. In 1979 he won the Annual Talent Competition in Brevard, and even often attended performances at Brevard Music Center where he met his first wife, Kwan Jane Steffens. As a lover of film and it's music, he turned his focus to media and studied communications arts at Appalachian State University, with the sole intention of telling the endless stories he observed and imagined. While there, he hosted radio shows, competed on the Debate/Forensics Team, served in Student Government and wrote a column for the school newspaper while singing in several choirs.

In the following years, he would transfer to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he studied Journalism and Communications. He also sang in as many as four choral ensembles there, and pledged Phi Mu Alpha the national music fraternity and worked in various jobs at the NC Center for Public Television while also writing for the Daily Tarheel.

Hall graduated from UNC in 1983 and worked at CNN Atlanta and for Cox Newspapers, NY Times Newspapers, and Thomson Newspapers before entering private consulting and production.

In the 90's Hall was still hungry for further studies in film and entered the graduate film program at the University of Southern California Los Angeles after writing his first full length screenplay, "Boys of the Wrecking Crew" based on a life experience during which one of his teenage co-workers committed suicide. The script was represented by Preferred Artists Agency and packaged several times before shelved.

For his Master's thesis script, Hall wrote the screenplay, Junior Requiem, which was aided by many notable award winning writing faculty members including Hubert Selby Jr, Mardik Martin and Larry Heinemann.

Perplexed and frustrated with the money and politics of Hollywood, and with the utter failure of packaging his screenplays, he taught English for several years in Los Angeles, Costa Rica and Japan. Finally, Hall got up the financial strength and stamina to give another try to developing "Boys of the Wrecking Crew", and in 2009 he finally produced and directed it under a new title, now know as Paper Boys.

Paper Boys
Paper Boys won 4 Accolade Awards including for Feature Film. It also garnered an Indy Award. The film made little money and had little fame, but has become cultish in Morocco and surrounding areas, ostensibly because of the lead actor, curly headed, Louis Lavdas and his sexy partner Doris Morgado. Most Moroccan viewers saw them as of Middle Eastern descent. The film followed a group of door to door salesboys, some of which were coming-of-age amidst drugs, sexual confusion and family dysfunction. Paper Boys-IMDB (Feature film)

in Japan
Having spent more money than he made on filmmaking, Hall returned to a more lucrative teaching and consulting career in Japan, where he owns and operates FuturEnglish and Aware Productions.