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Joe Brewster is an American psychiatrist and filmmaker who directs and produces fiction films, documentaries and new media focused on the experiences of communities of color.
With partner Michèle Stephenson he founded Rada Studio to tell stories about communities that have been neglected by the mainstream media and contribute to the American narrative mosaic. Together, while raising a family in Brooklyn, New York, Brewster and Stephenson have directed and produced documentary and fiction films. In 2008, they directed Slaying Goliath, a documentary that follows 10 days in the life of their son's fifth grade basketball team from Harlem, New York as they experience culture clash at a national tournament in suburban Florida. Brewster and Stephenson also produced and directed Faces of Change, which follows five activists on five continents fighting racism in their communities.
Most Popular Joe Brewster Trailers
Total trailers found: 23
07 March 2003
Killing Zone is the story of an affluent Harlem psychiatrist living an unexamined life until his adoptive father- a doctor who plucked him from a Nigerian refugee camp as a child - is gunned down by an eleven-year-old in Brooklyn.
01 January 2010
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina the New Orleans City Council decides to demolish public housing leaving thousands of people without homes.
01 December 2019
After learning yoga changes one woman's life, she brings its transformative power to her community of working-class African Americans.
30 November 2006
Five people from five continents tell how they face racism and discrimination in their respective communities.
01 June 2021
Like other healthcare industrial complexes, the mental health field operates around a centre defined by a whiteness of theory and practice.
15 August 2008
SLAYING GOLIATH takes an unprecedented intimate look at the world of amateur youth basketball through the eyes of the New York Select Huskies team as they seek to win the AAU National Basketball Championship.
28 January 2021
The Changing Same is a magical realist, immersive, episodic virtual reality experience where the participant travels through time and space to witness the connected historical experiences of racial injustice in America.
01 December 2015
In this short documentary, black women talk about the challenges they face in society.
04 July 2015
This short documentary features interviews with white people on the challenges of talking about race.
18 October 2013
In 1999, filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson turned the camera on themselves and began filming their five-year-old son, Idris, and his best friend, Seun, as they started kindergarten at the prestigious Dalton School just as the private institution was committing to diversify its student body.
20 October 2024
When the water in her small Mexican town proves to be radioactive, a young mom suddenly finds herself leading a local resistance movement.
03 March 2023
In the golden age of documentaries, who benefits? SUBJECT reveals the unintended consequences – good, bad, and complicated – of having your life shared on screen.
03 November 2023
Intimate vérité, archival footage, and visually innovative treatments of poetry take us on a journey through the dreamscape of legendary queer poet Nikki Giovanni as she reflects on her life and legacy.
12 July 2021
The lives of these young men are compared and contrasted with who they were five years ago, about who they are now, and how their perspectives on race, justice, and social inequality have changed.
13 November 2025
Jeremy Xido revisits Detroit to reconnect with a "cousin" from his past, examining themes of race and chosen family bonds.
20 October 2015
In this short documentary, Latinos grapple with defining their ethnic and racial identities.
17 September 2020
Director Michèle Stephenson’s new documentary follows families of those affected by the 2013 legislation stripping citizenship from Dominicans of Haitian descent, uncovering the complex history and present-day politics of Haiti and the Dominican Republic through the grassroots electoral campaign of a young attorney named Rosa Iris.
04 June 2021
In 1937, tens of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent were exterminated by the Dominican army, on the basis of anti-black racism.
10 June 2023
An illuminating look at the influence that hand games played by Black girls has had on the American creative landscape.
15 September 1995
Paul Lamont, a corrections officer and law student, leads a comfortable if culturally bankrupt, middle-class existence.
22 October 2018
Eighty years after the lynching of Claude Neal, Florida's last spectacle killing, his ghost arises from the grave and we are all better off for it.
08 March 2015
In this short documentary, young black men explain the particular challenges they face growing up in America.
