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Brad Lichtenstein | Director
Director, producer, outreach director and founder of 371 Productions, has been working in film and television since 1992. Early credits include associate producer of Frontline’s Peabody award-winning presidential election year special, Choice ’96 (PBS) and, with Lumiere Productions in New York, where he worked for 7 years, associate producer of the PBS series With God on Our Side: The Rise of The Religious Right in America. Also with Lumiere he produced (with Ali Pomeroy) and directed Andre’s Lives, a portrait of the “Jewish Schindler” and the Discovery Channel documentary Safe, about three women who sought refuge from domestic violence in a secret safehouse. He was one of the producers of the PBS series Local News, about a year-in-the-life of a local news station in Charlotte, NC, and helped to organize a nation-wide outreach effort that brought news professionals into constructive dialogue with the communities they cover. In 2001 he produced (with Amanda McBaine and David Van Taylor) and directed Ghosts of Attica, a feature documentary about the infamous 1971 prison uprising and ensuing 30-year journey to justice pursued by former inmates and guards. Ghosts of Attica was awarded a Dupont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Journalism in 2002. Lichtenstein designed an outreach program for Ghosts of Attica that brings prisoners and their guards together for discussion of prison reform “with no bars between them.” During the aftermath of 9.11 he produced and directed (with David Van Taylor) the PBS documentary Caught in The Crossfire, which chronicled the lives of three Arab New Yorkers in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. He has also produced for the weekly PBS series Now With Bill Moyers, served as consulting producer for the film Army of One, about army recruits who joined the army after 9.11, and produced (with Lisa Gildehaus) and directed the PBS documentary Almost Home, about people who live and work in a retirement community transforming the traditional institutional nursing home into a true home. Brad’s next film features DJ Spooky in What We Got, about privatization’s encroachment on public goods. He teaches documentary film production in the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee’s film department.
Nicole Brown | Editor
Nicole Brown says in her own words, “I joined docUWM as a student my senior year to work on the documentary now known as Chosen Towns. After graduating, I stayed to edit the piece sacrificing my tan because our edit room doesn’t have any windows. I’m learning a lot staying with the piece through post production on its way to being a real documentary and airing on Wisconsin Public Television. Brad found a way for me to stay with docUWM by having me produce a documentary on David Greenberger. My other experience includes working as an additional production assistant on Public Enemies, directed by Michael Mann. When I grow up, I hope to make my own documentaries and am also interested in working on more major motion pictures. I’m looking forward to a career in the industry even if it means surviving on Ramen noodles for most of the time!”
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