Natalie Bullock Brown is an award-winning producer, a 2021 Rockwood Institute JustFilms Fellow, and the director of the Documentary Accountability Working Group, a collective she helped to found in 2020. DAWG created and released a values- informed framework for documentary filmmakers in 2022 that emphasizes care, consent, and collaboration as a pathway to ethical storytelling. Previously, Natalie was the StoryShift Strategist for Working Films, where she guided the organization’s work in promoting accountable documentary storytelling.
Natalie’s recent credits as a director/producer of documentary films include a documentary work-in-progress that explores the impact of messaging about beauty and aging on Black women; producer for award- winning filmmaker Byron Hurt’s PBS documentary, HAZING, as well as his upcoming NOVA film, Lee and Liza’s Family Tree; and producer for filmmaker Resita Cox’s demo for her upcoming film, Basketball Heaven. Natalie was also an associate producer on documentary filmmaker Ken Burns’ 10-part PBS series, Jazz.
Natalie is an adjunct professor at North Carolina State University where she served as an Assistant Teaching Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies for five years. She was previously an assistant professor of film and broadcast media in the Department of Media & Communications at Saint Augustine’s University. She has served as a monthly guest and contributor for #BackChannel, a segment on North Carolina public radio’s The State of Things, and spent 12 years as co-host of Black Issues Forum, a public affairs program on UNC-TV, North Carolina’s statewide public television network. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Film Production from Howard University, and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Northwestern University.
Building off of the framework created by the Documentary Accountability Working Group, Natalie will spend her fellowship time developing a curriculum for film and media education programs that focuses on the need for ethical and accountable storytelling in documentary filmmaking.
