Irene Taylor Brodsky

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Irene Taylor Brodsky
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Taylor Brodsky at the 68th Annual Peabody Awards
Born (1970-06-15) June 15, 1970 (age 51)
St. Louis, Missouri
EducationNew York University, Columbia University Graduate School Of Journalism
Alma materNYU (BA)
Columbia University (MA)
OccupationFilm director
Film producer
Writer
Cinematographer
editor
Years active2004 – present
Taylor Brodsky filming Homeless: The Soundtrac.

Irene Taylor Brodsky (born June 15, 1970) is an American filmmaker best known for her documentaries that delve deep into the human experience.

For her debut feature film, Hear and Now, Brodsky won a Peabody Award and the 2007 Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her next film, The Final Inch, which also garnered multiple Emmy nominations and the International Documentary Association's Pare Lorentz Award. Her short film, One Last Hug, about a grief camp for children, won the 2014 Prime Time Emmy for Best Children's Programming.

Brodsky's other award winning films include Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements (2019), Homeless the Soundtrack (2018), Beware the Slenderman (2017), Open Your Eyes (2015), and Saving Pelican 895 (2012).

Early life[]

Brodsky is a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults). Brodsky graduated from New York University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.

Career[]

Brodsky's early work was influenced by growing up in a deaf family.  She began her career as a still photographer with the publication of her first book, Buddhas in Disguise: Deaf People of Nepal, documenting the lives of disabled people in the Himalayas.  For ten years, she worked between Kathmandu and New York City, became a Himalayan mountain guide and made her first film in 1995, on Nepalese deaf children, called Ishara.

Brodsky returned to the United States, soon working with Witness, a human rights video advocacy organization founded by Peter Gabriel. She began directing television documentaries, ranging from polygamist Alex Joseph and his 9 wives to the problematic rise of managed health care. From 1999 to 2002, she worked as a producer for CBS News Sunday Morning covering music, health care and breaking news.

In 2002, Brodsky moved to Portland, Oregon, and founded a documentary production company, Vermilion Films in 2006.[1] Her first feature documentary, Hear and Now, won the Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival in 2007 and a Peabody Award. Since then, she has won two Emmys and been nominated for an Oscar and multiple Emmy awards.

In 2019, Irene founded The Treehouse Project, a nonprofit forging broader accessibility to documentary film.

Brodsky's documentaries have appeared on HBO, CBS, A&E, Fox, and the History Channel.

Filmography[]

  • 2007: Hear and Now
  • 2009: The Final Inch
  • 2011: Saving Pelican 895[2]
  • 2014: One Last Hug: Three Days at Grief Camp[3]
  • 2015: Open Your Eyes[4]
  • 2016: Beware the Slenderman
  • 2017: The Life Story
  • 2018: The Listening Project
  • 2018: Homeless: The Soundtrack[5]
  • 2018: Between Sound and Silence
  • 2019: Moonlight Sonata[6]

Awards and Nominations[]

Select works[]

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  • 1997 – Buddhas in Disguise: Deaf People of Nepal?. San Diego, California: DawnSignPress. ISBN 978-0-915-03559-5; OCLC 36364073; the book's stories and photographs shed light on the Deaf culture and community in Nepal.
  • 1999 – I Witness: Polygamy. Amazon Prime Video. Main videographer and a producer of a 5 part x 24 minutes series on Alex Joseph's polygamist family just before Alex died of liver cancer.

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ "Vermilion Films". Retrieved August 4, 2021.
  2. ^ "Saving Pelican 895". HBO. Retrieved August 4, 2021.
  3. ^ "One Last Hug: Three Days at Grief Camp". HBO. Retrieved August 4, 2021.
  4. ^ "Vermilion Films » Open Your Eyes, 2015". Retrieved August 4, 2021.
  5. ^ "Vermilion Films » Homeless: The Soundtrack". Retrieved August 4, 2021.
  6. ^ "Moonlight Sonata Documentary". Moonlight Sonata Documentary. Retrieved August 4, 2021.
  7. ^ "Rochester Native Brings Her Famous Film Home to Benefit Deaf Students,"[permanent dead link] NTID News (National Technical Institute for the Deaf), March 15, 2008.
  8. ^ "Hear and Now Released on DVD." NTID News. October 21, 2009.
  9. ^ White, Thomas. "Meet the Academy Award Nominees: Irene Taylor Brodsky – The Final Inch," International Documentary Association, February 2009.
  10. ^ Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements, retrieved January 20, 2020

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