Hi, my name is Brian.

Creative director. Freelance copywriter. Screenwriter. Commercial director. Teacher. Child wrangler. Not necessarily in that order.

26 letters in the alphabet. 26 keys on a keyboard. 26 keys to tell your story.

I'm available for freelance copywriting, content creation, screenwriting, directing and everything in between. Drop me a line at brian@26keyscreative.com.

26 Keys Creative Clients

Kamehameha Schools, Hawaiian Airlines, Consolidated Theatres, Punahou School, Servco Hawaii/Toyota Hawaii, Chaminade University, Outrigger Resorts, Howard Hughes/Ward Village, Piggy Smalls, Senator Brian Schatz and SimplicityHR by Altres. I also do freelance copywriting work for ad/design agencies Wall to Wall Studios (Hawaii National Bank), Welcome Stranger (Foodland Hawaii), NMG Network (Hawaiian Airlines), OMG Marketing Communications (Island Energy), Core Group One (Ala Moana Center), Design Asylum (Olelo), and MVNP (HVCB, McDonald's Hawaii, First Hawaiian Bank).

Past Work

With 20+ years of advertising and marketing experience, I've worked as a copywriter at ad agencies in San Francisco (FCB Worldwide), Detroit (Doner), New York (MRM/McCann) and Hawaii (MVNP). My print, TV and digital work have won awards at the Peles, Tellys, Adrians, Effies, Caddys, Shortys, American Advertising Awards, the Communication Arts Advertising Annual and the Northern California Emmy Awards.

My past clients have included: Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau, McDonald's Hawaii, International Market Place, Hele Gas, First Insurance Company of Hawaii, Hawaiian Telcom, Mastercard, Wendy's, Nikon, Kraft, DK Books, Health Plan of New York, Future Shop, The UPS Store, Autotrader.com, AT&T Wireless, Oakland A's, Fox Sports, Major League Baseball.

Produced Screenplays

I'm also a produced screenwriter. My script "The Rogues Gallery" was turned into the film "Operation Endgame" (2010), starring Rob Corddry, Ellen Barkin, Maggie Q and Zach Galifianakis.

I wrote an animated short called "Maisa, The Chamoru Girl Who Saves Guam" (2015) which had the honor of being Guam's first animated film in the Chamoru language. It was also a Hawaii International Film Festival selection and was named best short film (Liklik Piksa - Little Picture Award) at the Pasifika Film Fest. 

I’m the Education Director of the Ohina Filmmakers Lab and I teach screenwriting at the University of Hawaii West Oahu’s Academy for Creative Media.

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