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BraveMice
Meet Our Team
Founder & CEO
AVERY LOOSER is a writer, director, producer, assistant director, and founder of BraveMouse, a company dedicated to championing female-led narratives both in front of and behind the camera. Her work has been recognized by the National Film Festival for the Talented Youth, SXSW, and HollyShorts, as well as featured on ABC and CBS. Beyond her creative work, Avery extends her storytelling practice to collaborations with nonprofits, including Integrity House and Pregnancy Justice.
Her screenplays have been recognized by the Scriptation Showcase, Humanitas Prize, ScreenCraft, and the Sundance Institute, where she was a second-round finalist for the 2023 Development Track. Most recently, Avery made her directorial debut off the West End with too much of water at The Old Red Lion Theatre in London, written by and starring her sister, Brock Looser. She is currently in development on her debut feature, Lifesaver, exploring mental health and the American South, in collaboration with the Media Finance Group at Creative Arts Agency (CAA) and Destiny Lilly, CSA at The Telsey Office.
For Wes Anderson, Avery has worked on three sets in the AD Department and currently serves as his executive assistant at American Empirical Pictures. She has also contributed to NYU Professor Susan Sandler’s documentaries as an Impact Researcher on Julia Scotti: Funny that Way and as Production Manager on The Artist Must Grow Ever More Selfish. At Putnam Pictures, she worked as a personal reader for Kerri Putnam.
Avery is a proud alumna of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, where she earned her BFA in Film and Television with a Minor in Producing as a University Scholar and Summa Cum Laude graduate. While at NYU, she received the 2020 Josh Goldfaden Award for her contributions to the expository writing program.
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Producer & Creative Coordinator
BROCK LOOSER is a film and stage actor, writer, and producer.
On screen, Brock has worked in feature, proof-of-concept, and short films recognized by HollyShorts, The National Film Festival for the Talented Youth, Portland Horror, and more. On stage, Brock made her Off West End debut in Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus Descending, with other theatre credits in New York and across Shakespeare Festivals. Most recently, her solo show too much of water, written and performed by Brock and produced by BraveMouse, played at The Old Red Lion Theatre in London.
Brock holds her MFA in Acting from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, graduating with Distinction. While at LAMDA, her work was selected for the MishMash Festival for original writing, she co-founded the improv comedy group Wiggle Room, and she produced the first ever school-wide April Fools Fringe Festival. She earned her BFA from NYU Tisch, studying at musical theatre the New Studio on Broadway and acting at Stonestreet Studios. She graduated early as a University Scholar with Honors from Tisch and Honors in Theatre Studies because of her thesis on Shakespeare’s societal others.
Brock is eternally grateful to have Avery as her built-in-best-friend-and-collaborator, and honored to be a Producer and the Creative Coordinator at BraveMouse.
AGENT: Rachel LeSeelleur with BC Creative
MANAGER: Jemmé Harper with Untamed Artists LA
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As a Co-Producer at BraveMouse, JULIA KRUGER oversees the development and production of BraveMouse’s short and feature film slate.
Julia currently works at NEON and her previous roles include working at United Talent Agency, Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks, MAX Originals, and American Empirical Pictures.
With Avery Looser and BraveMouse, Julia produced short film Indigo (2023 HollyShorts Film Festival).
She is a graduate of Northwestern University majoring in Radio/Television/Film with a minor in Creative Writing and a Certificate in Integrated Marketing Communications.
Julia could not be more excited to be part of the BraveMouse team and is looking forward to all of the incredible projects they have in store!
Co-Producer
Co-Producer & Cinematographer
TRUMAN HANKS is a cinematographer, camera assistant, and film loader based in Brooklyn. As the Resident Cinematographer and a Co-Producer at BraveMouse, Truman oversees the development of BraveMouse’s short and feature film slate and helms the visual style throughout production and beyond.
As a cinematographer, Truman has collaborated with Avery and BraveMouse on short films Indigo (2023 HollyShorts Film Festival), Try Me (Jakob Owens 2023 Horror Short Film Contest), and 1 Bed, 1 Bath (shot on Super 8), as well as on nonprofit projects with Integrity House and Pregnancy Justice. His credits also include his first feature Run Amok (2025), music video Going Mental (2025 HollyShorts Film Festival), and shorts Retrograde (2022 New Wave Short Film Festival) and The Artist Must Grow Ever More Selfish (directed by Susan Sandler), among others.
As a proud dues-paying member of the International Cinematographers Guild (IATSE Local 600), he has worked in various positions in the camera department with acclaimed cinematographers such as Janusz Kamiński, Dariusz Wolski, Robert Yeoman, and Bruno Delbonnel.
With frequent collaborator, Avery Looser, he seeks to put what he has learned from these world-class DPs into practice and further develop his own style.
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