R3 Contributor: Natalie Bullock Brown

Natalie Bullock Brown is an award-winning and Emmy nominated producer and consultant, and is chair of and an assistant professor in the Department of Film & Interactive Media at Saint Augustine’s University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Natalie served as co-host for Black Issues Forum, a public affairs program on UNC-TV, the local public television station, for over twelve years. She recently produced a 38 part dvd series documenting the 50th Anniversary Commemorative Conference of Freedom Summer, and also produced a similar multi-part series documenting the 50th Anniversary Commemorative Conference of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Natalie is also in the development phase of a documentary about black female beauty.

Before joining Saint Augustine’s University, Natalie maintained a freelance career, providing production, research and rights clearance consultation for clients including trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center, filmmaker Ken Burns and Florentine Films, media companies Jazz Video Networks and Dreamtime Entertainment, award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand, and others. Prior to going freelance, Natalie served as a producer and correspondent for UNC-TV, North Carolina’s statewide public television network. Before that, she worked for filmmaker Ken Burns in his New York production office, serving as an associate producer on Burns’ 10 part PBS series, Jazz, and as a production coordinator on Burns’ and Lynn Novick’s Frank Lloyd Wright.

Natalie has taught documentary filmmaking as an adjunct professor at Saint Augustine’s, production classes at North Carolina Central University, and has conducted workshops on archival film and photo research for the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Natalie holds a Master of Fine Arts in Film Production from Howard University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Northwestern University. She began her work in film as an apprentice editor at National Geographic Television.

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