Bush + Renz

Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, are a married, American filmmaker duo, known collectively as Bush Renz. Their writing-directorial work includes the 2020 Lionsgate film Antebellum featured in Variety’s top 10 films of 2020 short films produced for Harry Belafonte, Jay-Z and Maxwell, and the upcoming HBO Max TV Series Inkwell. Bush Renz were referred to as “Hollywood’s new power directing duo” by The Hollywood Reporter, and also appeared on the Out100 2020 list of the most influential LGBTQ+ people in America. Their creative process is marked by close collaboration from conceptualization to direction, to the extent where the expression "two directors, one vision" has become a tagline on set. Background In 2008, they founded their own advertising agency, with accounts that included Moët & Chandon and Porsche. Despite success in this field, they later decided to turn their energies toward social-action campaigns. Career The film career of Bush Renz burgeoned through the social justice space, with Harry Belafonte contacting them in 2016 to produce a PSA about police brutality entitled “Against the Wall”. Starring Michael B. Jordan, Michael K. Williams, and Danny Glover, the PSA featured audio excerpts from police radios and news coverage of on-duty officers shooting unarmed Black men paired against footage of Hollywood stars and media personalities up against a wall. The video was created in collaboration with social justice nonprofit Sankofa.