Film Mentors: Publicity - Brandy Fons

Brandy Fons is the co-owner of Fons PR along with her husband Ryan Fons.
She has over 14 years of experience working in film and entertainment
publicity.

Brandy began her career in New York, overseeing national brand PR for fashion and
beauty clients, including Burt's Bees, Kiehls, and Deborah Lippman Collection before
transitioning to film publicity at Barclay Communications where she handled
regional publicity for multiple studio clients including Walt Disney Studios, NewLine
Cinema, Focus Features, Columbia Pictures, DreamWorks and Universal Studios. She
was then recruited by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment for the position of
publicity manager, where she headed over 500 national PR campaigns yearly for
major home video initiatives including Disney classics like Lion King, Snow White &
The Seven Dwarfs, Monsters, Inc. and more. Brandy pursued a career as a PR
consultant where she continued to consult for Walt Disney Studios as well as
theatrical and home video campaigns for Focus Features and Sony Pictures Home
Entertainment. Brandy now heads her own PR firm located in Austin, TX where she
oversees the publicity of four yearly festivals including Fantastic Fest (the largest
genre film festival in the U.S.), ATX Television Festival (a celebration of TV’s past,
present and future through screenings and panels), RTX event (a gaming and
internet convention hosted in Austin, TX) and Off-Centered Film Festival (Dogfish
Head Brewery and Alamo Drafthouse’s annual film/beer festival). In addition, her
agency represents the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema chain both corporately and for
their national expansion in NYC, Denver, San Francisco, Washington DC, and Kansas
City along with their family of companies: Mondo (Alamo Drafthouse’s collectable
art division), Fantastic Fest (the largest genre film festival in the U.S.), Badass Digest,
Rolling Roadshow, 400 Rabbits, Midnight Cowboy and Drafthouse Films
(representing films nationally). Fons PR also represents independent filmmakers,
studios (Summit Entertainment, The Weinstein Company), production/creative
content studios (Rooster Teeth - Red vs. Blue and Arts+Labor), and Tugg, Inc (a web-
platform that enables individuals to choose the films that play in their local
theaters). Brandy has a voracious love for her 5yr old daughter Sienna, film, pop-
culture, and all things Austin. She could not be more excited to serve as a mentor
during SXSW.