Garrett Bradley is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Bradley has directed both TV and film, including episodes of the OWN TV series Queen Sugar, as well as the shorts Alone and America. In 2020 she released TIME, a majestic experimental documentary that explores prison abolition through the lens of one family’s 20-year battle with the legal system.
Garrett Bradley
New Orleans, Louisiana
Films
Naomi Osaka
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(2021)
An intimate look inside the life of one of the most gifted and complex athletes of her generation offers insight into the tough decisions and ecstatic triumphs that shape Naomi Osaka as both an elite global superstar and a young woman navigating a pressure-filled world.
TIME
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(2020)
Fox Rich is a fighter. The entrepreneur, abolitionist and mother of six boys has spent the last two decades campaigning for the release of her husband, Rob G. Rich, who is serving a 60-year sentence for a robbery they both committed in the early 90s in a moment of desperation. Combining the video diaries Fox has recorded for Rob over the years with intimate glimpses of her present-day life, director Garrett Bradley paints a mesmerizing portrait of the resilience and radical love necessary to prevail over the endless separations of the country’s prison-industrial complex. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary.
America
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(2019)
America explores the intersection of race, history, and visual storytelling through a series of 12 silent, black and white, 35mm films that will be exhibited chronologically starting from 1915 to 1926. America was inspired by the MoMA's recent discovery of the earliest surviving footage for a feature film Lime Kiln Club Field Day, made by an interracial cast and crew for a Black audience.
Below Dreams
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(2014)
Three New Orleans locals strive to make their lives better. Leanne is a single mother, whose dreams of becoming an actress and a model are continually undercut by her disapproving mother; ex-con Jamaine just wants a job, thwarted by his ever-present past; Elliot bounces between NOLA and NYC seeking the girl who wasn’t there.
