Joe Brewster Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Joe Brewster Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Joe Brewster, M.D. is an American psychiatrist and filmmaker who

directs and produces fiction films, documentaries and new media

focused on the experiences of communities of color.A native of South

Central Los Angeles, Joe Brewster graduated from Crenshaw High School

and received a B.A. in Biology from Stanford University. Brewster went

on to Harvard Medical School, where he received his medical degree in

1978 and completed his residency in psychiatry and neurology at McLean

Hospital in 1982. After completion of a fellowship in Institutional

analysis, the systematic study of people’s collective behaviors in

institutions, with Dr. Ries Vanderpol, Brewster enrolled in the

documentary production program at the New School for Social Research

in New York City with a goal to use his documentary film to positively

impact institutional behavior.Brewster wrote and directed his feature

film debut The Keeper in 1996, a psychological thriller rooted in his

experiences working as a psychiatrist with prisoners and correctional

officers at the Brooklyn House of Detention. The Keeper debuted at the

Sundance Film Festival and Brewster was nominated for an Independent

Spirit Award in the Someone to Watch Award category. Brewster’s

follow up to The Keeper, The Killing Zone, was inspired by a year he

spent working on a Mobile Crisis Team in Harlem, New York.With partner

Michèle Stephenson he founded the Rada Film Group with a mission: to

tell stories about communities that have been neglected by the

mainstream media and contribute to the American narrative mosaic.

Together, while raising a family in Brooklyn, New York, Brewster and

Stephenson have directed and produced documentary and fiction films.

In 2008, they directed Slaying Goliath, a documentary that follows 10

days in the life of their son's fifth grade basketball team from

Harlem, New York as they experience culture clash at a national

tournament in suburban Florida. Brewster and Stephenson also produced

and directed Faces of Change, which follows five activists on five

continents fighting racism in their communities.
Joe Brewster Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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