Joe Brewster
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- Directing
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Joe Brewster is an American psychiatrist and filmmaker who directs and produces fiction films, documentaries and new media focused on the experiences of communities of color.
With partner Michèle Stephenson he founded Rada Studio to tell stories about communities that have been neglected by the mainstream media and contribute to the American narrative mosaic. Together, while raising a family in Brooklyn, New York, Brewster and Stephenson have directed and produced documentary and fiction films. In 2008, they directed Slaying Goliath, a documentary that follows 10 days in the life of their son's fifth grade basketball team from Harlem, New York as they experience culture clash at a national tournament in suburban Florida. Brewster and Stephenson also produced and directed Faces of Change, which follows five activists on five continents fighting racism in their communities.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2023 | Subject | Self |
| 2013 | American Promise | Self |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2024 | The Age of Water | Producer |
| 2023 | Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project | Producer, Writer, Director |
| 2023 | Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games | Producer, Director |
| 2021 | Learning to Breathe | Director |
| 2021 | Elena | Producer |
| 2021 | Decolonizing Mental Health | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2021 | The Changing Same - Episode 1: The Dilemma | Producer, Writer, Director |
| 2019 | Drawn to the Mat | Director, Producer |
| 2018 | The Changing Same | Producer, Writer, Director |
| 2016 | A Mother's Dream | Producer |
| 2015 | A Conversation with Black Women on Race | Director, Producer |
| 2015 | A Conversation With Latinos on Race | Director |
| 2015 | A Conversation with White People on Race | Producer |
| 2015 | A Conversation About Growing Up Black | Director, Producer |
| 2013 | American Promise | Director, Producer |
| 2010 | Coming Home: The Dry Storm | Producer |
| 2008 | Slaying Goliath | Director, Writer, Producer |
| 2006 | Faces of Change | Producer |
| 2003 | The Killing Zone | Writer, Director |
| 1995 | The Keeper | Writer, Director, Producer |
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