Brook Silva-Braga (born March 27, 1979) is an American documentary
film producer. He shared a Primetime Emmy Award for his production of
Inside the NFL. He is best known from his documentary, A Map for
Saturday, in which he produced, directed, and starred. This
award-winning film is about his adventures as a backpacker for 11
months in 2005, in which he stayed in various hostels, and was
released in 2007. His second film, One Day in Africa, was released in
2009. In 2011 his third film was released, The China Question. He is
currently an on-air reporter for The Washington Post and freelances
for CBS Newspath.Silva-Braga was born and raised in Portsmouth, Rhode
Island, and was a producer for HBO's Inside the NFL, for which he
shared an Emmy Award.Silva-Braga quit his job with HBO "and he threw
it all away" to travel around the globe for almost a year in 2005,
with a video camera and equipment to record his adventures. It all
started when HBO sent him to Asia for work on another story, and he
discovered an underground network of backpackers, which enchanted
him.When he quit his job with HBO, his supervisor told him that, in
the future, he'd only send married producers overseas. After he
finished the film, he said that it had changed his outlook on life:
film producer. He shared a Primetime Emmy Award for his production of
Inside the NFL. He is best known from his documentary, A Map for
Saturday, in which he produced, directed, and starred. This
award-winning film is about his adventures as a backpacker for 11
months in 2005, in which he stayed in various hostels, and was
released in 2007. His second film, One Day in Africa, was released in
2009. In 2011 his third film was released, The China Question. He is
currently an on-air reporter for The Washington Post and freelances
for CBS Newspath.Silva-Braga was born and raised in Portsmouth, Rhode
Island, and was a producer for HBO's Inside the NFL, for which he
shared an Emmy Award.Silva-Braga quit his job with HBO "and he threw
it all away" to travel around the globe for almost a year in 2005,
with a video camera and equipment to record his adventures. It all
started when HBO sent him to Asia for work on another story, and he
discovered an underground network of backpackers, which enchanted
him.When he quit his job with HBO, his supervisor told him that, in
the future, he'd only send married producers overseas. After he
finished the film, he said that it had changed his outlook on life:
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