Susan Brownell: Profile of a National Champion (1983)

At USC film school in 1983, filmmaker Jon Macht wrote, directed, filmed, edited and produced the short film SUSAN BROWNELL: PROFILE OF A NATIONAL CHAMPION, a documentary short about the USA Olympic Pentathlete . Macht traveled to the University of Santa Barbara in California to film Brownell training for the US Olympic trials under USA Olympic Women's Track Coach Jack Griffin. Brownell would later move to China and become an expert on sports in China. She later was a professor at Yale University teaching anthropology and the role of sports in society. Jon Macht has worked in all aspects of movie and television production for the last 35+ years and was involved in the Star Trek television series for Paramount Pictures, Babylon 5 series at Warner Brothers and is writing, directing and producing in Hollywood today. Today, Susan Brownell is a member of the US Olympic Committee and expert in sports in China.