Alrick Brown is an award winning writer, director, and producer. He found his medium, film, after visiting the slave castle of Elmina in Ghana, during a two-year tour with the Peace Corps in Cote d'Ivoire and in 2009, Alrick received his MFA in Directing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Alrick’s collective body of film work has screened in numerous festivals worldwide, earning several honors. Among them is the HBO Life Through Your Lens Emerging Filmmaker Award for the critically acclaimed documentary Death of Two Sons. Alrick’s first feature, Kinyarwanda, was the recipient of the prestigious Sundance World Cinema Audience Award. 

His cinematic reach includes credits on the small screen as director, producer and writer on a variety of projects including ABC’s Final Witness, ESPN’s short doc series Spike Lee’s Lil’ Joint, and Investigative Discoveries Emmy-Award winning series A Crime Two Remember.