Biography

Brad is an award-winning filmmaker who has been making documentaries since 1998 and founded 371 Productions in 2003.

His recent film, When Claude Got Shot (produced with Stick Figure) premiered at the 2021 SXSW film festival, won a 2022 Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary, and was nationally broadcast in May of 2022 on PBS' series Independent Lens. He's been nominated for two other Emmys: one Sports Emmy for the VR film Ashe '68, which premiered at Sundance in 2019, and a News and Documentary Emmy for the 2012 Independent Lens/PBS film As Goes Janesville. He's won two Duponts: one for the 2016 Al Jazeera America series Hard Earned (produced with Kartemquin Films) and another for his 2001 film Ghosts of Attica (produced with Lumiere Productions). His film American Reckoning (with producer/director Yoruba Richen) premiered in February of 2022 on Frontline, depicting the story of a Black resistance movement in Natchez, MS and the murder of civil rights leader Wharlest Jackson, Sr. With Emily Kuester, he directed Messwood for Participant, which premiered in 2021 at DocNYC and will be released widely in 2023. The film follows a high school football team made up of kids who come from two different communities; one suburban and white and the other urban and Black.

Brad directed Metcalfe Park: Black Vote rising in 2020 with Miela Fetaw - a short for PBS/World Channel and The Intercept. His 2018 film There Are Jews Here won a Telly award and was broadcast on PBS/World. He was nominated for a Peabody for his radio series about gun violence, Precious Lives. Brad has also produced for Frontline and Bill Moyers. He is credited for the recent films Attica, by Stanley Nelson, and Citizen Ashe, by Sam Pollard and Rex Miller.

His company has long been committed to nurturing the careers of emerging women and BIPOC storytellers.
- IMDb mini biography by: Brad Lichtenstein

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