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Margaret Brown is an American film director who has directed four feature length documentaries. Her film Descendant, about the descendants of survivors of the last ship to carry enslaved Africans into the United States, was shortlisted for the 2023 Academy Awards. [1]
Descendant is a 2022 American historical documentary film directed by Margaret Brown, chronicling the story behind Africatown in Alabama, and the descendants of the last known enslaved Africans brought to the United States aboard the Clotilda.
21. Okt. 2022 · Filmmaker Margaret Brown wasn't planning on making another documentary after The Great Invisible. Following the release of her 2014 film about the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, Brown set her sights on exploring new territory as a filmmaker.
Margaret Brown is an American film director who has directed four feature length documentaries. Her film Descendant, about the descendants of survivors of the last ship to carry enslaved Africans into the United States, was shortlisted for the 2023 Academy Awards.
24. Okt. 2022 · Margaret Brown and Joycelyn Davis—one of the documentary’s subjects and the organizer of “Spirit of Our Ancestors” festival—spoke with RogerEbert.com about finding the Clotilda, the pressure to get this story right, and how they met with a descendant of Captain Foster.
Descendant: Directed by Margaret Brown. With Theodore Arthur, Gary Autrey, Chris Davis, Joycelyn Davis. Follows descendants of the survivors from the Clotilda, the last ship that carried enslaved Africans to the United States, as they reclaim their story.
Margaret Brown is an American film director. She earned her BA from Brown University with concentrations in Creative Writing and Modern Culture and Media, and her MFA in Film from New York University.
