MARGARET BROWN
Writer/Director
TALenT DeVeLoPMenT ProGrAM:
Spirit Award Grant Winner
CUrrenT ProJeCT:
Los Buitres (The Vultures) (Narrative Feature)
LOGLINE
A loose retelling of Heart of Darkness set in a South American surf town.
BIO
Margaret Brown received the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2009 Spirit Awards for her second documentary
feature, The Order Of Myths, which was also nominated in the Best Documentary Category. The fi lm
premiered at Sundance in 2008, and was released theatrically by The Cinema Guild the same year. Brown
also received the Cinematic Vision Award for The Order Of Myths at the 2008 Silverdocs Film Festival, and
the 2008 Grierson Youth Jury Award in England. The fi lm was on many critcs’ top ten lists of 2008, and is
rated 100% critically on Rotten Tomatoes.
Brown’s fi rst feature was the acclaimed documentary Be Here To Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt,
which was released in the United States by Palm Pictures and received worldwide theatrical distribution
in 2005. Be Here To Love Me premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, was the opening night fi lm at North
America’s premier documentary fi lm festival, Full Frame, and the closing night fi lm at the Nashville Film
Festival.
Brown directed the music video Our Life Is Not A Movie or Maybe for Okkervil River and she produced
Catpower’s Living Proof video, directed by Harmony Korine. She also produced Six Miles of Eight Feet, which
won a Student Academy Award in 2000. Brown was the cinematographer for Ice Fishing, which received
a special jury prize from Sundance in 2000; she received the Néstor Almendros Award for Cinematography
from the NYU Graduate Film Program. The short fi lm she directed while at NYU, 99 Threadwaxing, starred
Justin Kirk and Heather Burns and was screened at fi lm festivals across the country. She produced the
narrative feature fi lm Mi Amigo, released in 2006 by ThinkFilm and starring Josh Holloway of Lost.
Brown earned her BA from Brown University in Creative Writing and her MFA in Film from New York University.
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