Tom E. Brown
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| Born | March 2, 1967 Stamford, CT |
| Occupation(s) | Director, screenwriter, producer, actor |
Tom E. Brown (born March 2, 1967) is an American director, screenwriter, producer, and actor.
Career
Brown’s short film Don’t Run, Johnny was acquired by IFC after its screening at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998.[1] IFC also acquired his next two short films, Rubber Gloves (Golden Spire winner) and Das Clown (Sundance 2000).[2][3] In addition to hundreds of festival screenings, Brown’s films have been featured at the American Museum of Natural History, the Walker Art Center and The Guggenheim.
Brown’s feature debut, Pushing Dead, was a Sundance Institute/Rockefeller Foundation-supported feature starring James Roday, Robin Weigert, and Danny Glover.[4][5] Pushing Dead screened at over 50 film festivals, garnering awards for all three main actors and 10 best-feature audience and jury awards.[6][7][8][9] Pushing Dead was released in North America in 2018 and is currently available on most digital platforms. Brown’s latest project, American Dog, features a vigilante lefty lesbian police-officer protagonist. The feature is being produced by Brown, James Roday, and Frazer Bradshaw.
Personal life
Brown lives in San Francisco’s Tenderloin with his scrappy little dog, Charlie.
References
- ^ Mark Rabinowitz and Eugene Hernandez (11 December 1997). "Don't Run, Johnny at IndieWire". IndieWire.
- ^ "Rubber Gloves". San Francisco International Film Festival. 1999.
- ^ Jill Feiwell and Joshua Ratcliffe (10 December 1999). "Thesps among filmmakers on Sundance shorts list". Variety.
- ^ "Pushing Dead". Sundance Institute. 2000.
- ^ Eugene Hernandez and Anthony Kaufman (16 May 2000). "Sundance Invites 13 Projects to June 2000 Lab". IndieWire.
- ^ Pam Grady (16 June 2016). "Seeing The Comedy in an AIDS Nightmare". SF Gate.
- ^ "Pushing Dead". Austin Film Festival. 15 October 2016.
- ^ Catalina Sofia Dansberger Duque (16 June 2016). "Making AIDS Something We Can Laugh About". Huff Post.
- ^ Hank Trout (4 April 2018). "Pushing Dead: A Film by Tom E. Brown Explores Long-Term Surviving—With a Sense of Humor". Art and Understanding Magazine.