Ted Braun

Ted Braun (Writer/Director) spent the first four months of 2007 in Sudan filming Darfur Now with unprecedented access to the internally displaced people of Darfur, international aid workers, the government and the rebels. He has written and directed award winning documentaries and fictional films for HBO, PBS, A&E and The Discovery Channel on subjects ranging from the historical Jesus to test pilots of aviation’s golden age to his most recent film, We’re Here To Speak For Justice, which chronicled the battle for civil rights of California’s developmentally disabled citizens. His documentary on the first Gulf War for U.S. News & World Report was A&E’s highest rated original documentary in 1991. Darfur Now is his first theatrical documentary.

Braun taught screenwriting at Amherst College before joining the faculty at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where he is an Assistant Professor in Screenwriting. He regularly lectures, conducts seminars, and serves as a script consultant throughout Europe and the US. In addition, he worked for Frank Daniel at The Sundance Filmmaker’s Lab and with legendary screenwriter Robert Towne on The Two Jakes, the sequel to Chinatown.