Irene Taylor Brodsky

Irene Taylor Brodsky is an Oscar-nominated director and producer of documentary films.

Life

Brodsky visited by the year 1988, the Brighton High School and then studied at New York University and at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

Irene Taylor Brodsky was initially photographer until she joined a film crew during the filming of a documentary about the Cree as a location photographer in 1990. Also in the early 1990s she held for five years for a photography project and subsequent shooting in Kathmandu, Nepal, on. Following the publication of the illustrated book Buddhas in Disguise on disabled people in the Himalayas they approached the charity UNICEF to make a film of their material, from which finally was the half-hour film Ishara.

In the following years she appeared in a number of other documentaries that dealt with issues such as polygamy or the American health care system. Furthermore, she began working as a producer for documentaries. 2004 won the documentation Heart of the Country about the American architect Samuel Mockbee, was involved in the Brodsky as a producer, an Emmy.

In 2007, she filmed the documentary Hear and Now, in which she also wrote the screenplay in addition to the director and was responsible for sound editing, cinematography and production. The film is about her parents, Paul and Sally Taylor, who were both born deaf and decided at the age of 65 years to have a cochlear implant use. Hear and Now, the first feature-length documentary Brodsky, was honored with his performance at the Sundance Film Festival with the Audience Award for Best Documentary, additional awards, including the Peabody Award, followed.

Finally, she was approached by the charitable department Google to make a film about the efforts in the fight against the disease polio because they wanted to bring these more in the public consciousness. This created under her direction, the short documentary film The Final Inch, for she turned, among others, in India and Afghanistan. After the film's release in 2009, she was nominated, along with producer Tom Grant for an Oscar in the category of Best Short Documentary, but could not prevail against Megan Mylan, which received the award for her film Smile Pinki itself.

In 2011 she turned another movie, Saving Pelican 895, in which it claimed the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico documented the rescue of a pelican 2010. The environmental organization International Bird Rescue gave her then to Every Bird Matters Award for the attention they gave to an individual animal, and the concomitant emphasis on the importance of each individual life. In addition, we nominated the film for the Environmental Media Award.

My short documentary film One Last Hug ( ... and a few smooches ): Three Days at Grief Camp, which deals with children who have lost family members and are therefore in a "grief camp" ( dt: " Grief Camp" ) residing at Los Angeles, was published in 2013 and listed on the Hamptons International film Festival, where he was awarded an audience award.

Irene Taylor Brodsky now has her own production company, Vermilion Pictures founded. With this she is working on another feature film length, entitled Four Walls Around Me.

Filmography

Awards

  • 2004: Emmy Award for "Outstanding Feature in a Regularly Scheduled Broadcast" for Heart of the Country.
  • 2007 Sundance Film Festival: Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize - Best Documentary for Hear and Now.
  • 2007 Sundance Film Festival: Audience Award - Best Documentary for Hear and Now.
  • 2007: Heartland Film Festival: Award for "Best Documentary Feature Film " for Hear and Now.
  • 2008: PGA Awards: nomination for Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award in the category " Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures " for Hear and Now.
  • 2008: Peabody Award for Hear and Now.
  • 2009: Heartland Film Festival Crystal Heart Award in the category "Short Film" for The Final Inch.
  • 2009: Academy Award nomination in the category "Best Short Documentary " for The Final Inch.
  • 2009: IDA Documentary Awards: Pare Lorentz Award for The Final Inch.
  • 2011: Ashland Independent Film Festival: Audience Award for "Best Short Documentary " for Saving Pelican 895
  • 2011: Nominated for the Environmental Media Award in the category "Documentation" for Saving Pelican 895
  • 2011: Every Bird Matters Award for Saving Pelican 895
  • 2013: Hamptons International Film Festival: Audience Award in the category " Best Short Film " for One Last Hug ( ... and a few smooches ): Three Days at Camp Grief

Works

  • Buddhas in Disguise: Deaf People of Nepal, 1997
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) HBO MTV WorldCat
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