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Joe Brewster
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. Wit…
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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.
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2025
Sons of Detroit
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
The Age of Water
Movie Producer
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2023
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
Movie Producer
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2023
Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games
Movie Producer
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2023
Subject
Movie Self
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2021
Learning to Breathe
Movie Director
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2021
Elena
Movie Producer
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2021
Decolonizing Mental Health
Movie Director
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2021
The Changing Same - Episode 1: The Dilemma
Movie Producer
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2020
Stateless
Movie Executive Producer
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2019
Drawn to the Mat
Movie Director
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2018
The Changing Same
Movie Producer
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2016
A Mother's Dream
Movie Producer
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2015
A Conversation with Black Women on Race
Movie Director
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2015
A Conversation With Latinos on Race
Movie Director
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2015
A Conversation with White People on Race
Movie Producer
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2015
A Conversation About Growing Up Black
Movie Director
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2013
American Promise
Movie Self
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2010
Coming Home: The Dry Storm
Movie Producer
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2008
Slaying Goliath
Movie Director
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2006
Faces of Change
Movie Producer
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2003
The Killing Zone
Movie Writer
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1995
The Keeper
Movie Writer
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Paul Robeson Documentary
Movie Director
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Freddie Gray Documentary
Movie Director
