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Writer-director Ted Braun spent the first five months of 2007 in Sudan with unprecedented access to the internally displaced people of Darfur, international aid workers, the government and the rebels. The resulting documentary - his critically acclaimed first feature film, Darfur Now - won the NAACP Image Award for best documentary of 2007, was named one of 2007’s top five documentaries by the National Board of Review, and was nominated for best documentary by the Critics Choice Awards, the Chicago Film Critics Society, the San Francisco Film Critics Circle, the International Press Academy and Cinema for Peace.

For his work writing and directing the picture, the International Documentary Association awarded Ted Braun their 2007 Emerging Filmmaker of the Year. In addition, the Winter 2008 issue of Movie Maker Magazine named Braun, along with Errol Morris, Oliver Stone, Robert Redford, Michael Moore and Darfur Now producer Don Cheadle, one of 25 filmmakers whose work has changed the world.

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.