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Alrick Brown
(Filmmaker) holds an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School
of the Arts. A writer and teacher, he has found his calling directing
and producing narrative films and documentaries often focusing on social
issues affecting the world at large. It was after visiting the slave
castle of Elmina, in Ghana, that he was inspired to attend film school.
For over two years he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cote
d’Ivoire. The interactions with the people of his village and his
overall experiences in West Africa have informed his creative
expression; an expression first fostered by his birth in Kingston,
Jamaica and migration to, and upbringing in Plainfield, New Jersey. A
fluent French speaker, he graduated from
Rutgers
University with a BA in English and a Masters degree in Education.
Since then he has devoted his energy to changing the world by giving a
voice to the voiceless and telling stories that otherwise would not be
told. Alrick’s collective work has screened in over thirty film festivals, national and international, and received numerous awards. Three of his films have played Lincoln Center. Recently, he was one of four NYU students featured in the IFC Documentary series “Film School”, produced by Academy award nominee Nannette Burstein. In February 2007 he addressed the Motion Picture Association of America on C-SPAN. At present, he is in pre-production for his thesis film, “Us: A Love Story” and writing his first feature screenplay a thriller titled, “The Shadows.” |