USA / Chad

Bentley Brown is a producer and director from Dallas, Texas. In 1999, at the age of 11, he moved with his family to Chad. Since 2004, Brown and his soccer teammate Abakar Chene Massar have been working together as filmmakers. He holds an MA in communication, culture and technology from Georgetown University and a BA in international studies from Emory University. From 2015 to 2018 he taught filmmaking and interactive media in Saudi Arabia's first university-level filmmaking program, where he also began an underground film screening series and worked on several feature films. Working frequently in Arabic, French, he is currently enrolled in a PhD program in Emergent Technologies and Media Art Practice at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Filmography

Captain Majid (2009)
Faisal Goes West (2012)
Oustaz (2016)
Khawadjat (2016)
Terrorist Number Four (2018)
First Feature (2018)
Maneuver (2018)
A Film Crew Censors Itself (2019)
First Camera (2019)
Revolution from Afar (2020)