Ellen Brodsky
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After spending fifteen years working in public health and education, Ellen Brodsky became an award-winning filmmaker whose short and feature-length social justice documentaries have played on all seven continents. In addition to her personal projects, Brodsky has made two teacher training films focusing on LGBT topics for elementary schools for the Welcoming Schools project of the Human Rights Campaign.
Ellen Brodsky has been directing award-winning short and feature-length documentaries for the past 20 years. The Year We Thought About Love and 25 Texans in the Land of Lincoln are distributed with New Day Films. Her work has been seen in over 70 festivals, conferences, and school settings around the world.
Ellen Brodsky began filmmaking after a twelve-year career in education and public health. Her most recent film is 25 Texans in the Land of Lincoln which followed a bus filled with college history students headed from the Alamo to Springfield, Illinois to ask for the repatriation of Santa Anna’s prosthetic leg and to honor Lincoln’s support of Mexico. 25 Texans was broadcast on PBS WORLD Channel and has screened in many festivals and classrooms. Ellen directed the award winning The Year We Thought About Love, a film about a LGBTQ youth theater troupe, which is a favorite at festivals, conferences, and endless classrooms and community groups. She co-produced At Home in Utopia, directed by Michal Goldman and broadcast on Independent Lens in 2009. She has directed three award- winning shorts: What do you know? Six to twelve year olds talk about gays and lesbians, Only One Boss, and Dental Farmer (with co-director, Dunya Alwan), which have played festivals in all seven continents. Brodsky has a Masters in Management from the Heller School, Brandeis University and a BA in Religion from Haverford College.
