Ted Braun, M.F.A.

Associate Professor

Writer-director Ted Braun teaches a wide range of courses in screenwriting and motion picture script analysis. His critically acclaimed first feature film, Darfur Now, won the NAACP Image Award for best documentary of 2007 and was named one of 2007’s top five documentaries by the National Board of Review.

For his work as writer and director of Darfur Now, the International Documentary Association awarded him 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 and George Clooney, as one of 25 filmmakers whose work has changed the world.

Braun taught screenwriting at Amherst College before joining the faculty at USC. He regularly lectures, conducts seminars and serves as a consultant throughout Europe and the U.S.