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Nov 7, 2023 · The filmmaker Joe Brewster still remembers the first times he heard Nikki Giovanni's poetry. It was a summer day in South L.A. during the '70s, and Brewster had the radio tuned to KGLA. "And Nikki was on the radio." Between Top 40 hits from Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye, the poet and activist read one of her works.
Joe Brewster and his partner Michele Stephenson are co-founders of the Rada Film Group, a media production company that creates non-fiction stories using installation, documentary and print media. Joe is a Harvard trained psychiatrist who has used his psychological training as the foundation to approach social issues he has chosen to tackle as ...
Oct 18, 2022 · A Decade Later, Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson Reflect On “American Promise”. by Aramide Tinubu. Education has always been seen as a golden ticket in this country. In 2015, the Schott Foundation for Public Education released a disheartening report stating that only 59% of Black males graduated from high school in the United States.
Joe Brewster is a Spirit Award, a three-time Emmy Award nominee, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016. <br><br>He is a member of AMPAS, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
Oct 27, 2023 · ESPN Films’ critically acclaimed documentary short “Black Girls Play,'' directed by award-winning filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michéle Stephenson (“American Promise,” “Going to Mars: the Nikki Giovanni Story”), will debut November 12 at 8:30p.m. ET on ESPN. Immediately after its premiere, the film will be available on ESPN+, along with the rest of the ESPN Films library.
American Promise spans 13 years as Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson, middle-class African-American parents in Brooklyn, N.Y., turn their cameras on their son, Idris, and his best friend, Seun ...
Joe Brewster. Producer: Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project. Joe Brewster is known for Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (2023), American Promise (2013) and Stateless (2020).
