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Alrick Brown
has a MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. A filmmaker and teacher,
he has found his calling writing, directing, and producing narrative
films and documentaries often focusing on social issues affecting the
world at large. It was after visiting the slave castle of Elmina, in
Ghana, that he was inspired to attend film school. For over two years he
served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cote d’Ivoire. The interactions
with the people of his village and his overall experiences in West
Africa have informed his creative expression; an expression first
fostered by his birth in Kingston, Jamaica and migration to, and
upbringing in Plainfield, New Jersey. A fluent French speaker, he
graduated from
Rutgers
University
with a BA in English and a Masters in Education. Since then he has
devoted his energy to changing the world by giving a voice to the
voiceless and telling stories that otherwise would not be told. Alrick’s collective work has screened in over forty film festivals, national and international, and received numerous awards. He and his co-producer, received the “HBO Life Through Your Lens Emerging Filmmaker Award” to produce their critically acclaimed documentary “Death of Two Sons.” In 2004 he was one of four NYU students featured in the IFC Documentary series “Film School”, produced by Academy award nominee Nannette Burstein. In 2007 he addressed the Motion Picture Association of America on C-SPAN. In 2009 he directed his first stage play. At present, he is in post-production on his first feature film, “Kinyarwanda” shot on location in Rwanda and writing a feature thriller titled, “Shadows.” |