Just this past year, Fall City brothers Brandon, 30, and Jared, 26, Drake finally realized their dream.

Over the past two months, the two had been filming their first movie, “Visioneers,” in the Valley. Working as a team (Brandon as the writer, Jared as director), they just wrapped the film Sept. 15.

“Brandon wrote; essentially he wrote a very good script,” said the film’s co-executive producer Mark Headley. “[As a director] Jared’s been able to pull off the vision.”

Described by Jared as a dark comedy, the independently developed and financed production features comedian Zach Galifianakis (“Out Cold,” television’s “Tru Calling”) and a slew of supporting actors including Mia Maestro (“Alias”), Judy Greer (“Elizabethtown,” “13 Going on 30”), James LeGros and others.

“It taps into what everyone faces when they try to catch their dreams,” Jared explained.

The next step for the movie – once edited – is to be submitted, and accepted, by independent film festivals, such as the Sundance Film Festival held in Park City, Utah, each January. If the movie is purchased by a distributor, it could be in theaters as early as spring 2007. And if nothing comes of it, Brandon and Jared said they remain proud of their work, regardless.

“For young filmmakers, they are really talented,” said Jory Weitz, an executive producer and the casting director for the film. Other movies Weitz has worked on include: “Napoleon Dynamite,” “Blade” and “Edward Scissorhands.”

“They’re very nice,” Galifianakis said. “They’re very nice gentlemen. Extremely patient.”

The inspiration for writing the film came to Brandon by way of the commercial and residential growth that he watched take place over the years in the Valley and on the Issaquah Plateau. (Jared lives in California, Brandon resides in the Valley.) In addition to the growth, he has seen attitudes change, too, with more emphasis on achievement-based success rather than on personal development.

“That’s what the story is about, that’s the essence of it all,” Brandon said. “The pressure we all face to live life ‘their’ way or our own.”

Both Brandon and Jared selected the Valley as the setting of the film because they wanted to celebrate and to give back to the community in which they were raised.

“We’re happy for them,” said their mother, Kathy Drake, who, with her husband Dwaight, lent them the family home for a filming location. “They’re doing what they want to do. It’s awesome.”

“They’re both down to earth [and] a pleasure to be around,” said one of the film’s producers, Henry Lowenfels.

Growing up in Fall City, the Mount Si High School graduates (Brandon in 1994, Jared in 1999) had an idea of what they wanted to do with their lives, but it wasn’t until about four years ago, they said, that they felt they could actually make those dreams come true.

“There are so many people, and I was one of them, who are looking to find the secret key that will open the door [to success],” Brandon said. “There is no key. You just have to do it.”

In 2004, Jared earned his undergraduate degree in filmmaking (as a director) from UCLA, and Brandon received his master’s degree in writing from the University of Redlands in California.

After promising each other to pursue their creative path as a team, “We hit the ground running,” Jared said.

“What we had going for us is I’m half of a puzzle and Jared is the other half,” Brandon said. They also started a production company, Firesidefilm.

They felt that working together was necessary in order to avoid the potential Hollywood trappings that have almost become a cliche, they said.

“Hollywood eats people up and spits them out,” Brandon said.

“It’s the only way to stay grounded,” Jared said. “You just kind of have to tell everyone [who wants you do something you don’t want to do] to ‘F-off.'”

“You have to believe that somewhere out there … [Maybe] we’re proof of it, but what got us to this point is saying, ‘We’re not going to let outside forces dictate our path,'” Brandon added.

With the growing hype, the brothers said they feel more confident now in their decision to make their own path in movie making.

“Our motivation is so pure, at the end of the day, we’re just looking to tell the story,” Brandon said. “That kind of attitude is contagious.”

The traditional path for a writer first starting out in Hollywood might be to edit or rewrite scripts that someone else wrote, Brandon said.

For a new director, one might do small-budget documentaries or television shows, Jared added.

For Brandon and Jared, those options weren’t the goal.

Their goal was to make their own movie – together – the way they wanted it done.

“You gotta lay it on the line,” Jared said. “The truth is … if we wanted to go to that, we could. It’s not going anywhere.”

They developed the script with the idea that the film would be made, with or without Hollywood help.

“The beauty of it is, their perspective totally flipped because it was us saying, ‘We’re going out shooting this, you can come along if you want to,'” Jared said.

“When we sat down [to work on the movie], we weren’t kidding ourselves,” Brandon said. “There’s no steps we could skip.”

Six months after the film was pitched, a crew of about 60 people were on the set helping to put the movie together. Now a year since the “Visioneers” script was written, the movie has been made and the brothers are ready to become Hollywood contenders – their own way.

“Our approach to this was, this may be our one shot,” Jared said. “It couldn’t be a better time to be an ‘indie’ filmmaker. You don’t need Hollywood. If you’re a filmmaker, just go out and make films.”

He added, “We feel much more confident in the path we’ve chosen [since the film was developed].”

Brandon said he often equates the experience to a baseball team.

“If you start at the beginning, that’s kind of where we were. Sitting on the sidelines, watching the pitcher throw over the plate, [thinking] if we could just get to the plate,” he said. “[Rather than waiting to be called to bat] we learned we just had to bum-rush the field.”