Biography

Aside from being Benjamin Bratt's brother, Peter Bratt is a growing force in his own right. With his critically acclaimed independent first feature film Follow Me Home (1996), he dared to explore race and identity from the multiple and intersecting perspectives of Chicanos, African Americans, and Native Americans. When no major studio would distribute this film, Henri Norris, an African American woman who was an attorney then engaged in malpractice litigation, created New Millennia Films so that Bratt's film and message could reach a significant audience. Bratt was honored for his artistic genius with a 2000 Rockefeller Foundation Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship, further demonstrating that he is poised to become one of the twenty first century's major filmmakers.
- IMDb mini biography by: L. J. Allen-2

Older brother of Benjamin Bratt.

Brother-in-law of Talisa Soto.

His film Dolores won a 2018 Peabody Award.

Born and raised in San Francisco by a strong, Indigenous single mother from Peru, Peter's family was part of the American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz, the Wounded Knee stand-off, and the Farmworkers Movement.

"All the main characters in this film carry what Dr. Eduardo and Bonnie Duran refer to as the 'soul wound'. The 'soul wound' is a result of the perpetration that was committed against the indigenous peoples of the Americas, and also the Africans that were brought here as slaves." (refering to the Black American, Chicano, and American Indian characters in his film Follow Me Home (1996))