KWAME BRAUN

After an early career as a scenic artist in theater and television, he attended New York University's Graduate Program of Film and Television, graduating in 1988. A year-long Fulbright residence in Ghana generated the material for his first documentaries, passing girl; riverside (1997, left) and Stageshakers! Ghana's Concert Party Theatre (2001), both of which have screened at international ethnographic film festivals, including the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival in New York City. His subsequent projects arose out of collaborations with teaching colleagues: At UC Santa Barbara he made Video Portraits of Survival, a series of portraits of area Holocaust refugees and survivors, with film scholar Janet Walker; the collection premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 2007... At UC Berkeley, he produced Take 5, 25 short videos to accompany the exhibition Fiat Lux Redux: Ansel Adams and Clark Kerr (2012), in collaboration with theatre scholar Catherine Cole,..