Natalie Bullock Brown

Director

Documentary Accountability Working Group

Natalie Bullock Brown is the director of the Documentary Accountability Working Group, a collective she helped to found in 2020 which released a values-informed framework for documentary filmmakers that emphasizes care, consent, and collaboration as a pathway to ethical storytelling. She is also a documentary film producer and emerging director; a 2023 Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center Documentary Film Fellow; a 2023 DOC NYC New Leader; and a 2021 Rockwood Institute JustFilms Fellow.

Natalie is director/producer of a work-in-progress that explores Black women, beauty and aging, and is executive producer for filmmaker Resita Cox’s upcoming film, Basketball Heaven. Natalie is producer for filmmaker Byron Hurt’s upcoming release, Me of Courage. She was also a producer on Hurt’s PBS documentary, HAZING, and she produced his PBS NOVA film, Lee and Liza’s Family Tree.

Natalie taught at North Carolina State University for 10 years, and was the StoryShift Strategist for Working Films, where she guided the organization’s work in promoting accountable documentary storytelling. Natalie also served 10 years as co-host of Black Issues Forum, a public affairs program on UNC-TV (now PBS-NC), North Carolina’s statewide public television network.

For nearly 12 years, Natalie was an assistant professor of film and broadcast media in the Department of Media & Communications at Saint Augustine’s University. Natalie was also an associate producer for filmmaker Ken Burns’ 10-part PBS series, Jazz. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Film Production from Howard University, and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Northwestern University.

Participating Sessions

Race in Real Time

Dramatic steps to whitewash the American story in the name of “patriotic education” don’t simply reshape what we see on display at our national museums or read in textbooks—they rewrite who has a place in the American story. Black filmmakers committed to investigative, truth-driven work about Black heritage and experience, find themselves fighting not only for funding and access—but at times for the ability to tell stories that reflect an honest...

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