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Garrett Bradley is an American filmmaker and director of short films, feature films, documentaries, and television. She is known for blending cinematic genres to explore the larger sociopolitical significance of the everyday moments of her subjects' lived experience.

Garrett Bradley
Born	New York City
Education	Smith College, UCLA
Occupation	Filmmaker
Years active	2014-present
Notable work	Alone; America; Time
Awards	Sundance Film Festival: Best Director, US Documentary Competition (2020); Prix de Rome (2019); Creative Capital Grantee (2019)

Early life and education

Bradley was born in New York City in 1986[1] to abstract painters Suzanne McClelland and Peter Bradley. She studied religion at Smith College, then earned her MFA in Directing at UCLA.

Career

Bradley's first feature was Below Dreams. which premiered at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival. The film won a special jury award at the New Orleans Film Festival and was named a "slow burn beauty" by film critic Bilge Ebiri.[2]

Bradley's documentary short America was called by Observer film critic Simran Hans the "most original film" she saw at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival,[3] and was nominated for an Independent Documentary Award by the IDA. America set a new precedent as a short film in 2019 when it was given a week run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, under the title "Garrett Bradley's America: A Journey Through Time".[4] It was programmed alongside influenced and inspired works as well as a retrospective of Bradley's past films. Invited speakers included Saidiya Hartman, Julie Dash, and RaMell Ross. The event was in partnership with New York University's "Black Portraiture: V Memory and the Archive Past. Present. Future."[5]

Bradley's first museum solo exhibition, American Rhapsody,[6] was curated by Rebecca Matalon at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. She has participated in two group shows, the 2019 Whitney Biennial[7] by Jane Panetta and Rujeko Hockley and Bodies of Knowledge[8] at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Bradley won the directing award in the U.S. documentary competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival for her first nonfiction feature, Time, becoming the first black woman to win the award. Time has been nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 93rd Academy Awards.[9][10]

Filmography

Film and television

Year	Title	Notes
2014	Below Dreams[11]	Bradley's feature film debut at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival[12]
2015	Cover Me[13]	Prospect 3 Arts Biennial
2016	Like[14]	Short
2017	Alone[15]	Short Form Jury Award in nonfiction at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival; 2017 Oscar Contender (Shortlist)
2017	Queen Sugar[16]	Director of one episode, "Live in the All Along"[17]
2018	The Earth is Humming[18]	Documentary short
2019	America[19]	Documentary short[20]
2019	When They See Us	Second unit director, 4 episodes
2019	A.K.A.	Video Installation at the 2019 Whitney Biennial[7]
2020	Naomi Osaka	Purchased by Netflix
2020	Time	Best Director for US Documentary in Competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival Nominated for Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature

References

External links

• Alone at the New York Times
• Garrett Bradley at IMDb

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