Aurora Brachman Shorts Competition

Aurora Brachman is an award-winning documentary director and cinematographer. Through patient and poetic storytelling her films explore narratives of intimate relationships within families and communities. Her short documentaries, including Club Quarantine, Joychild, Still Waters, and The Gallery That Destroys All Shame, have been acquired by The New York Times, The New Yorker, and POV; shortlisted for an IDA Award; selected for Vimeo Staff Picks; exhibited by the MoMA, and screened at numerous festivals including Sundance, True/False, Hot Docs, AFI Docs, DOC NYC, BlackStar, and SFFILM. Aurora is a graduate of the MFA program in Documentary Film at Stanford University, named as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, a 2020 Sundance Ignite Fellow, a 2023 SFFILM FilmHouse Resident, and a 2023 BAVC MediaMaker Fellow. She is also the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in filmmaking. She associate produced the A24 documentary UNDERRATED (Sundance 2023); co-produced Apple TV+’s GIRLS STATE, sequel to the Sundance and Emmy award-winning BOYS STATE; and assisted on the critically acclaimed Showtime docuseries COUPLES THERAPY. Aurora primarily makes work about the experiences of Black, brown, and Queer people and is committed to collaborative and ethical storytelling.