Margaret Brown (film director)

Margaret Brown is an American film director.

Life

She earned her BA from Brown University in creative writing/modern culture and media and her MFA in Film from New York University. She directed 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".[1]

Margaret Brown, Lois Vossen and Lewis Black at the 69th Annual Peabody Awards for Independent Lens-The Order of Myths

Brown also directed the feature documentary The Order of Myths[2] a 2008 Sundance Film Festival selection about the segregated Mardi Gras celebration of Mobile, Alabama.[3] 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 2009, Brown was nominated a Cultural Ambassador for Documentary Filmmaking from the United States to Colombia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

In 2012 United States Artists named Brown a Fellow.[4]

In 2014, Brown directed the feature documentary The Great Invisible[5] which won the SXSW Grand Jury Prize for Documentary and an Emmy nomination for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking and aired in April, 2015, on Independent Lens on PBS.[6][7] The Great Invisible features the BP oil spill in the Gulf in 2010 and its aftermath.

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