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Broderick Fox
Los Angeles
Filmmaker; Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies
Tags: short documentaries  public television  political/social issue documentaries  personal documentaries  PBS  Los Angeles  LGBT Issues  Jewish Themes  Jewish issues  film history  festival awards  Experimental Documentaries  ethnography  ethics  education  documentary history  docs about the arts  Docs about Faith and Spirituality  Character-driven Documentaries  Australia  Advocacy  
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Biography: 

Broderick spent several childhood years in Tokyo and his twenties between Berlin and Los Angeles, making his creative perspective markedly international. His award winning narrative, experimental, and documentary works have screened internationally in theaters, on television, at film festivals, and online.

Tak for Alt: Survival of a Human Spirit (1997) won the Dore Schary Award, was broadcast nationally on PBS, and received special recognition from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Love, Death, & Cars (1999) premiered at the Palm Springs International Film Festival and aired on PBS KQED San Francisco.

Things Girls Do... (2001) premiered at Outfest and continues to play and stream internationally. I Knew Him (2007) was a finalist for the Iris Prize, the world’s largest prize for work representing or advocating for LGBT individuals. His most recent video Home (2009) premiered in Berlin at the Globians World and Culture Documentary Festival.

Fox is one of 13 Californian artists to receive a 2011-2012 Artistic Innovation grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation. The IDA is the fiscal sponsor for Fox's feature documentary The Skin I'm In (2012) which recently won a Special Jury Prize at the Arizona International Film Festival and is presently on the festival circuit.

Fox’s screenwriting work has won or received finalist and semifinalist nods in over 20 national competitions. He is also a professor of Media Arts and Culture at Occidental College, teaching courses in both theory and production. His book, Documentary Media: History - Theory - Practice is now out through Pearson Press.