ABOUT
Named to Variety’s “10 Documakers to Watch” list in 2015, Brad Barber is a national Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. His feature directing debut, PEACE OFFICER, which he directed, produced, and shot with Scott Christopherson, won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2015 South by Southwest Film Festival, the Human Rights Award at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, and the David Carr Award for Truth in Non-Fiction Filmmaking at the Montclair Film Festival, among other festival honors. Peace Officer went on to a nationwide theatrical release in 34 cities with Gravitas Ventures and Submarine Deluxe. The film then showed at community centers in 75 cities leading up to its broadcast on PBS’s documentary series Independent Lens in 2016.
In 2009 Brad was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy for his work as an editor on the HBO documentary RESOLVED, for which he also served as an associate producer and cinematographer. He has been awarded 5 regional Emmys for his public television short documentary series BEEHIVE STORIES (2009-2018), which he made with his students, and is a recipient of the AFI Docs/NBC Universal Impact Grant for social outreach. He has also served as a Jury Member for the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and on selection committees for the International Documentary Association Awards and the Slamdance Film Festival.
Immediately after completing his undergraduate work in non-fiction film and journalism in 2001, Brad got his start professionally as a cinematographer on a documentary filmed across five continents. After returning to the states he attended USC where he earned an MFA in Cinema-Television Production. He then worked in Los Angeles as an editor, cinematographer, and director/producer of independent film and television, with a variety of beginner credits on Showtime, ESPN, Discovery Channel, and others.
Brad currently works as an independent filmmaker and professor of documentary film. His most recent work is STATES OF AMERICA, an ongoing series of short documentaries featuring one person in each of the 50 United States. The series is currently showing on PBS.org, the PBS app, and WORLD Channel, presented by KQED. He is also a producer on 21, a New York Emmy nominated and Webby Honoree documentary series for NJPBS, which, like Utah's BEEHIVE STORIES, is part of the STATES OF AMERICA project. He is married to artist and frequent collaborator Susan Krueger-Barber, together they have two amazing sons.