Irene Taylor Brodsky

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Irene Taylor Brodsky

Irene Taylor Brodsky is an Oscar-nominated director and producer of documentaries .

Life and accomplishments

Brodsky attended Brighton High School until 1988 and then studied at New York University and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism .

Irene Taylor Brodsky started out as a photographer until she joined a film team as a location photographer in 1990 while shooting a documentary about the Cree . In the early 1990s she also spent five years on a photography project and subsequent filming in Kathmandu , Nepal . After the publication of the illustrated book Buddhas in Disguise about disabled people in the Himalayas , she approached the aid organization UNICEF to film her material, which ultimately resulted in the half-hour film Ishara .

In the following years she worked on a number of other documentaries that dealt with topics such as polygamy or the American health system. She also began to work as a producer for documentaries. In 2004, the documentary Heart of the Country about the American architect Samuel Mockbee, in which Brodsky was involved as a producer, won an Emmy .

In 2007 she made the documentary Hear and Now , for which she also wrote the script and was responsible for sound editing, camera and production in addition to directing. The film is about her parents, Paul and Sally Taylor, who were both born deaf and decided to have a cochlear implant at the age of 65 . Hear and Now , Brodsky's first feature-length documentary, won the Audience Award for Best Documentary when it was screened at Sundance Film Festival , and other awards, including the Peabody Award , followed.

Eventually she was approached by Google's charitable department to make a film about efforts to fight polio because they wanted to raise public awareness of it. This is how the short documentary film The Final Inch came about under her direction , for which she shot in India and Afghanistan , among others . After the film was released in 2009, she was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Documentary Short along with producer Tom Grant , but could not prevail against Megan Mylan , who received the award for her film Smile Pinki .

In 2011 she made another film, Saving Pelican 895 , in which she documented the rescue of a pelican after the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico . The environmental organization International Bird Rescue then presented her with the Every Bird Matters Award for the attention she paid to an individual animal and the associated reference to the importance of each individual life. The film was also nominated for the Environmental Media Award.

Her short documentary One Last Hug (… and a few smooches): Three Days at Grief Camp , which deals with children who have lost family members and are therefore in a “grief camp” near Los Angeles , was released in 2013 and performed at the Hamptons International Film Festival, where it won an Audience Award.

Irene Taylor Brodsky has since started her own production company, Vermilion Pictures. With this she is working on another full-length film entitled Four Walls Around Me .

Filmography

year title function
2004 Heart of the Country Producer
2007 Hear and Now Director, producer, screenwriter, camerawoman, film editor
2009 The Final Inch Director, producer
2011 Saving Pelican 895 Director, producer
2013 One Last Hug (... and a few smooches): Three Days at Grief Camp Director

Awards

  • 2004: Emmy in the category “Outstanding Feature in a Regularly Scheduled Broadcast” for Heart of the Country .
  • 2007: Sundance Film Festival : Nomination for the Grand Jury Prize - Best Documentary for Hear and Now .
  • 2007: Sundance Film Festival: Audience Award - Best Documentary for Hear and Now .
  • 2007: Heartland Film Festival: Award “Best Documentary Film” for Hear and Now .
  • 2008: PGA Awards: Nomination for the Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award in the “Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures” category for Hear and Now .
  • 2008: Peabody Award for Hear and Now .
  • 2009: Heartland Film Festival: Crystal Heart Award in the “Short Film” category for The Final Inch .
  • 2009: Oscar nomination in the category “ Best Documentary Short Film ” for The Final Inch .
  • 2009: IDA Documentary Awards: Pare Lorentz Award for The Final Inch .
  • 2011: Ashland Independent Film Festival: Audience Award for “Best Documentary Short Film” for Saving Pelican 895 .
  • 2011: Nomination for the Environmental Media Award in the category "Documentation" for Saving Pelican 895
  • 2011: Every Bird Matters Award for Saving Pelican 895 .
  • 2013: Hamptons International Film Festival: Audience Award in the “Best Short Film” category for One Last Hug (… and a few smooches): Three Days at Grief Camp

Works

  • Buddhas in Disguise: Deaf People of Nepal , 1997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rochester Native Brings Her Famous Film Home to Benefit Deaf Students  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , NTID@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / ritdml.rit.edu  
  2. ↑ a b c Vermilion Pictures
  3. ^ A b Meet the Academy Award® Nominees: Irene Taylor Brodsky - 'The Final Inch' , International Documentary Association.
  4. ↑ a b Synopsis - Hear and Now ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , HBO Documentaries  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hbo.com
  5. ↑ a b c National Television Academy presents: 25th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 71 kB), emmyonline.org  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.emmyonline.org
  6. ↑ a b c d Irene Taylor Brodsky in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  7. ↑ a b 2007 Sundance Film Festival , Sundance Institute
  8. ↑ a b Hear and Now (HBO) , Peabody Awards
  9. ↑ 2009 Oscar Winners List , MTV
  10. ^ A b International Bird Rescue Announces Saving Pelican 895 Filmmaker Irene Taylor Brodsky as the Winner of its Inaugural Every Bird Matters Award , International Bird Rescue
  11. ↑ a b 21st Annual Environmental Media Awards ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Environmental Media Association  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ema-online.org
  12. ↑ Q&A: Director Irene Taylor Brodsky on 'One Last Hug (… and a few smooches): Three Days at Grief Camp' , Hamptons International Film Festival
  13. ↑ a b HIFF 2013 Awards Announced , Hamptons International Film Festival
  14. ↑ One Last Hug : Credits on the film's website
  15. ^ A b c d Awards for Irene Taylor Brodsky , Internet Movie Database
  16. ↑ PGA Awards 2007 - The Producer's Nominations! , filmring.at
  17. ^ Crystal Heart Award Winners , Heartland Truly Moving Pictures
  18. ^ IDA Documentary Awards , International Documentary Association
  19. ^ Buddhas in Disguise: Deaf People of Nepal , WorldCat
personal data
SURNAME Brodsky, Irene Taylor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taylor, Irene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century