Micah Brown

Hard work has never been a stranger to Micah Brown, a former two-sport athlete in both football and track at the University of Kansas. After dropping a track scholarship to walk on for football, he became the hero of the 2008 Orange Bowl team by catching a game-saving first down off a fake punt. The catch earned Micah a scholarship, and helped secure KU their first BCS Championship. After graduating with a degree in filmmaking, Micah landed a job editing movie trailers at The Refinery AV in Burbank, California. During that time, he collaborated with some of the top creative minds in the industry on movie campaigns such as Date Night, Knight and Day, and the A-Team. Micah's love for sports called him back to Lawrence as he returned to his Alma mater to produce an all-access web series for Kansas Football called The Gridiron. The series quickly became a fan favorite amongst Jayhawk Nation and was recognized on a larger stage by winning back-to-back regional Emmy's for Best Regularly Scheduled Sports Program. The format that Brown created for The Gridiron became the standard for college recruiting and inspired numerous networks to replace traditional coaches shows with episodic all access programming. Browns knowledge of both recruiting and storytelling caught the eye of other major NCAA programs as colleges like Michigan State, Notre Dame, Oklahoma and Arkansas State recruited Brown to produce similar content for their basketball and football programs. In 2012, Brown started his own production company Second Wind Creative, and transitioned away from working with colleges and toward working exclusively with television networks. His work has been featured on nearly every major sports network in the country including ESPN, Showtime, Netflix, NFL Network, ABC, Fox Sports, NBC Sports, CBS Sports, Big 10 Network, Golf Channel, and the Bleacher Report. Hired frequently for his field producing and cinematography, Micah has become a regular contributor to award winning programs such as ESPN College Gameday, E:60, NFL Countdown, SC Featured, and critically acclaimed series like Draft Academy (ESPN), Last Chance U (Netflix) and All Access (Showtime). Brown's storytelling sensibilities, problem solving capabilities and visual eye quickly earned the trust of network executives as seamlessly slid into the directing chair on numerous episodic series including Draft Diaries (8 episodes - Uninterrupted) and Undiscovered (14 episodes - NFL Network). Undiscovered has played an intricate role in helping the NFL expand internationally and has garnered millions of views online with audiences in the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Brazil. In 2017 he made his long form documentary debut with Prison Fighters: 5 Rounds to Freedom, about a prison in Thailand that allows inmates to fight for their freedom. The documentary earned him a nomination for documentary of the year at the 2018 Cynopsis awards and was praised as a "borderline masterpiece" by critics for it's complicated moral premise. Brown's latest feature length documentary, "Chuck & Tito" is part of ESPN's illustrious "30 for 30" docuseries and chronicles the hot and cold relationship between MMA fighters Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz - from the very start of the UFC, through it's rise in popularity, to the present day. "As individuals, Chuck & Tito each took turns being the face of the UFC, " says Brown. "As rivals, they were the most lucrative matchup in MMA history at that time. This film is important not only to celebrate their tremendous careers, but also to explore the psychology behind why fighters fight, and how those contrasting perspectives impacted them as individuals. And, more than that, 'Chuck & Tito' is about identity, friendship and the cost of chasing your dream."