Brad Marshland was born in San Francisco and grew up in Berkeley, California before entering Harvard University.  He began at Harvard with the intention of studying medicine, but the class he took just after "Inorganic Chemistry" each Tuesday was "Visual and Narrative Perspective in Film".  His choice was easy. Brad graduated with a double major of Visual and Environmental Studies (Film) and Sociology, earning a summa cum laude for his thesis, a documentary film on homelessness in Boston.  He also studied film and social anthropology with the International School of America's International Honors Program - during which time his teachers included such renowned filmmakers as Chris Marker, Miklos Janco, Jean Rouch, Robert Gardner and Shohei Imamura. For the past fifteen years, Brad has been a prolific writer in just about every medium.  He has sold screenplays in Hollywood, had stage plays produced on both coasts, and has written and directed everything from commercial and PR pieces to web content, museum installations and feature films. He lives with his family in Northern California, not too far from a ruined sanatorium.