David Brown:  

Life David L. Brown is an award-winning San Francisco documentary filmmaker who, since 1971, has produced, written and directed over 70 productions and 10 broadcast documentaries on social, nuclear, health, technology, peace and environmental issues. His documentaries have received over 85 international awards and have been broadcast on PBS and in sixteen countries. Recent work includes SENIORS FOR PEACE, a 25-minute portrait of a group of articulate, passionate senior peace activists (average age 85); and SURFING FOR LIFE, an inspirational one hour documentary on older surfers as models of healthy aging. It screened theatrically in 40 cities, was broadcast on over 130 PBS stations, won 15 international awards and was profiled in The New York Times Magazine, Parade Magazine, on National Public Radio and ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. The San Francisco Chronicle called it “a treasure, perhaps the most intelligent treatment of surfing ever captured on film.” Before discovering old surfers, Brown produced BOUND BY THE WIND, a moving documentary on the global legacy of nuclear weapons testing and the plight of the world’s “downwinders” which has won 20 international awards including a CINE Golden Eagle, a Blue Ribbon at the American Film and Video Festival and a Golden Gate Award for Best Environmental Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival. It has been broadcast on PBS, in Canada (CBC), Japan (NHK), France (Canal+), Spain and several other countries. The Boston Globe called it “far and awa...Expand for more