Meet Brandon Lowe of Sugar Creek

Today we’d like to introduce you to Brandon Lowe.

Hi Brandon, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
Growing up, I always knew I was different. I didn’t yet know how I was different, but I was. I suffered from a lot of learning disabilities, and because I was shy, I struggled to make real friends. On top of that, I didn’t have a normal family situation like the other kids at school. At this point, I had never met my dad, and DFS took me away before I could even walk. Fortunately, I was lucky enough to get adopted by my grandma, who fought so hard to get me. My sister’s dad did everything he could to sabotage the case, but my grandma stayed strong and won. Most of this didn’t bug me much then because I was too young to understand it fully, but I was still lost in every aspect of life. Eventually, I learned that if I were ever going to be anything in life, I would have to put myself out there in every way possible. If there was one thing I was sure about myself, it was the fact that I’m weird, super weird. So, no matter how much social anxiety I had, I played into that as much as I could. I was always a creative kid. I loved to draw, and I could build something out of just about anything, but I also had the most active imagination imaginable. So it was no shock when I discovered my love for movies, but most importantly, the desire to be in them and to make my own. My grandma (NaNa) would sneak me into work, and I’d spend her entire shift making videos with her flip phone and Gumby action figure. We’d sit and watch them together. She’d laugh and tell me she loved it, and I’d make another. She always believed in me. I wanted to be rich and famous for her. I didn’t want to disappoint her, but most importantly, I wanted to give her the life she deserved. She did the same for me, so it was my turn. As much as I wanted to be in a real movie, it just wasn’t going to happen, but lucky for me, I discovered the next best thing: YouTube. At least then, I thought it was the next best thing, my ticket to stardom. So, for the last ten years, I’ve been writing, filming, directing, and editing whatever I could come up with. Some of it isn’t good, depending on how old it is, but some of it I’m proud of. Filmmaking is therapeutic to me, no matter what I’m making, and it helped a once shy, troubled, loser kid come out of his shell and make a name for himself. I’m not rich and famous yet, but things have been looking good for me lately, and I’m not ready to stop.

Can you talk to us about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned? Looking back, would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Because I didn’t come from a wealthy family, I didn’t have many resources to make the stuff I wanted to make. I got lucky here and there regarding my camera and a few other things, but I had to learn to create with what I had. Before I got my camera, I had to tape a napkin holder to a tripod and slide a tablet into it. And because I didn’t and still don’t have a computer, I had to teach myself how to edit on an iPad. I’d say I got pretty good at that. But I also got too far into my head about it all, and I found myself more focused on how I could get popular quickly and less on the actual quality of what I was making. When things weren’t going the way I wanted them to, and no one was watching the things I was making, it bummed me out and made it hard to keep creating stuff. In my mind, there was no point in wasting all this time if no one would see it. I was hard on myself. I have since learned to love what I make despite how well it did. I started creating for the people around me and less about the internet. The stuff I was making felt worth it if my friends liked it.

As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar, what can you tell them about what you do?
We do a lot of horror and comedy-based things. Horror is my favorite genre, so I love creating spooky stuff. It’s always a good day when someone’s covered in fake blood. Even the stuff based on comedy has some horror element about the comedy side of things. I love making people laugh just as much as creeping people out. I do many character-based things where I play about everyone, male or female; it doesn’t matter. I love challenging myself to be someone other than me, and the crazier the story, the better. Cannibal hillbillies might kidnap, one second, characters, and then the next second, they’re getting abducted by aliens. We do a lot of parodies, too. Our most popular one is a crossover parody of Scream and Scooby-Doo, which was an absolute blast to make. I keep saying we, and that’s because I’m not doing it alone. I have some amazing people helping me do this stuff, and they can be so funny.

I started doing character stuff because I didn’t have many people to help me. But I love bringing other people into my world now and pushing the limits of what they’re capable of. I couldn’t do it without them, so they deserve some recognition too. I’m going to name the main cast in no specific order. Jasmine Riaz, Melissa Shinn, Dakota Boise, Isaac Miller, Anthony Gutierrez, Chloe Rucker, Zakk Keller, Madeline Vinson. They’re all incredible people, and I’m so happy to have them by my side. I might be crazy for what I do, but they might be crazier for tagging along. So many others have helped throughout the years, and I wish I could name them all, but this would be too long if I did. But the family only keeps growing. We have a lot of fun things planned for the future. We have a movie we want to make that I’m super excited about and a whole list of horror shorts to come.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weird_brandon_lowe/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@BEETVproductions
• Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@crazybrandonlowe