Michael Brown

Born in 1958 in West Germany, he was raised in Germany and Italy, in the San Francisco Bay Area, in Paris, France, and in Arizona. He currently lives in Hamburg, Germany. From 1978 to 1982, he was trained as 16 and 35 mm cameraman at the Atelier Plogstedt in Stuttgart, West Germany (institutional, documentary and advertising films, specialized in animation and model-endoscopy). From 1982 to 1985, he managed the dubbing and post-sync department at Teletota, Paris, France. From 1985 to 1995, he worked as unit manager, production manager and assistant director on institutional and documentary films, as well as countless television and cinema feature productions, and continues to work today as translator and speaker for audiovisual programs (dubbing, voice-over and sub-titles). Since 1995, he has been 1st assistant director for cinema and television features. He has recently produced and directed a feature-length music documentary film "My Father, his Flamenco, and I", a coming ground-breaking 2-hour DVD "Petenera - a Flamenco Drama in Music and Dance" and is working on projects for fiction and documentary films as well as live music and dance camera relay productions.