Kathy Brew

Kathy Brew’s experience spans experimental work to independent documentaries and public television productions. She has worked for both WNET/Channel Thirteen and KQED/Channel 9 in San Francisco, she also served as Associate Producer for arts-related documentaries, including Four Dances for Television; Breaking the Mold (about sculptors in the Bay Area); Comedy Tonight; as well as Producer/Writer for Art Previews (short features).

Ms. Brew has worked over the years with several other artists/producers on a range of media projects, including: Regret to Inform, a documentary about widows of the Vietnam War that won awards at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival and the Independent Feature Project's American Spirit Awards, as well as having been nominated for a 1999 Oscar in the documentary category; Rabbit in the Moon, a documentary about Japanese-American internment during World War II, another award-winning film at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, which aired on POV in 1999 and won a national Emmy; several commissioned projects for ZDF-Arte Television (in Germany) with artists Lynn Hershman and Gustav Hamos. Her own independent video work, Mixed Messages (1990), examines gender stereotyping in popular culture and received numerous awards at film and video festivals.

For over ten years she has been collaborating with Roberto Guerra on arts-related as well as other social issue projects with a particular focus on representing the vision and contributions of creative people to larger audiences. They are interested in the interface between art and reality, and in how artists respond to issues of our times. Recent projects include: : four short films on Chinese contemporary artists, part of the Observer Observed series for The Joy of Giving Something, Inc.; ID/entity: Portraits in the 21st Century, commissioned by the MIT Media Lab; a collaboration with artist Mierle Ukeles, creating a multiple-channel installation about the Fresh Kills landfill; Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution. Guerra and Brew also independently produced segments for WNET’s City Arts and Egg, and received two Emmy awards for Outstanding Fine Arts Programming.

Photo by Lonnie Graham

Contact Information:
kathybrew@verizon.net

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