Documentary Film Mentorship Zoom Call with Award-Winning Filmmaker

This auction item entitles you to a 1 hour Documentary Film Mentorship Call via Zoom with Award-Winning writer, director Theodore Braun.

ABOUT THEODORE BRAUN

Writer-Director Theodore Braun’s feature documentary debut, Darfur Now, was named one of 2007’s top five documentaries by the Broadcast Critics and the National Board of Review. The film won the NAACP Image Award and earned Braun the International Documentary Association’s Emerging Filmmaker of the Year Award. Darfur Now was co-financed by Warner Brothers, which distributed it worldwide, and Participant, which spearheaded a global social action campaign. His docu-thriller Betting On Zero premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won a special jury mention for investigative work, and received a WGA nomination for best feature documentary of 2017. His most recent film, ¡Viva Maestro!, about conductor Gustavo Dudamel, premiered theatrically in over 50 cities across North America in 2022 and received a WGA nomination for best feature documentary of 2022. It’s his second film with Participant and is streaming in North and Latin America on HBO Max. In 2008 Movie Maker Magazine named him one of 25 filmmakers whose work has changed the world. Braun teaches screenwriting at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and is the Joseph Campbell Endowed Chair in Cinematic Ethics.

In 2018 Variety named him one of the world’s Top Ten Teachers in Film and TV.