Name Margaret Brown | Role Film director | |
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Awards Independent Spirit Truer than Fiction Award Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit - Documentary Filmmaking Movies The Great Invisible, The Order of Myths, Be Here to Love Me, 11/4/08 Similar People Julie Goldman, Marco Naggar, Kris Swanberg | ||
Dir margaret brown speaks on order of myths
Margaret Luce Brown is an American film director.
Contents
- Dir margaret brown speaks on order of myths
- Sundance 08 meet the filmmaker margaret brown
- Early life
- Career
- Honors and awards
- References
Sundance 08 meet the filmmaker margaret brown
Early life
Brown was born and raised in Mobile, Alabama. A Murphy High School alumna, She earned her BA from Brown University with concentrations in Creative Writing and Modern Culture and Media, and her MFA in Film from New York University. She was cinematographer for 99 Threadwaxing in 1999 and director for Ice Fishing in 2000.
Career
Brown's full length debut was Be Here To Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (2004) which chronicles the turbulent life of American singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt. Time Out magazine listed it at number 7 on its "50 Greatest Music Films Ever".
Brown subsequently directed the feature documentary The Order of Myths a 2008 Sundance Film Festival selection about the segregated Mardi Gras celebration of Mobile, Alabama. The film was nominated for Independent Spirit Award. It won many awards including a Peabody Award, a Cinematic Vision Award at the Silverdocs Documentary Festival and Truer Than Fiction Award at the Independent Spirit Awards.
In 2014, she directed the feature documentary The Great Invisible which won the SXSW Grand Jury Prize for Documentary and received an Emmy nomination for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking and aired on Independent Lens on PBS on April 2015. The Great Invisible features the BP oil spill in the Gulf in 2010 and Deepwater Horizon oil spill aftermath.
Honors and awards
Brown was nominated a Cultural Ambassador for Documentary Filmmaking from the United States to Colombia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and holds fellowships from United States Artists and The MacDowell Colony.