Owsley Brown III
Executive Director
Owsley Brown III was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. He is a documentary filmmaker whose directorial debut, Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles, about the American writer and composer, Paul Bowles, won the Independent Spirit Award in 2000, the Hamptons International Film Festival 1999 Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature Film, and selection by the Berlin International Film Festival in 2000. His critically acclaimed second film, Music Makes A City, chronicled the commissioning project of the Louisville Orchestra in the 1950’s. Music Makes A City was awarded Britain’s Gramophone Award for Best DVD Documentary in 2012, and had its U.S. television broadcast premiere in January, 2014, on PBS stations nationwide. Owsley also co-produced the landmark documentary feature Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present, (Directed by Jeff Dupre and Matthew Akers) which won the Panorama Audience Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, a Grand Jury Prize nomination at the Sundance Film Festival, and a Peabody Award in 2012. Owsley’s third feature film as director and executive producer is Serenade for Haiti (Serenad pou Ayiti). The film is a seven-year study of Haiti over the years 2007-2014 as told through the perspective of the students and teachers of the Holy Trinity Music School in Port-au-Prince. Owsley is also devoted to the enrichment of the arts and education in his native city, and is currently co-producing a documentary film about Kentucky literary legend and environmental activist Wendell Berry, titled Look and See(directed by Laura Dunn). He is a host and producer of the Festival of Faiths, a founding board member of the Kentucky School of Art and an advisor to Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer on his Compassionate Schools Project. Owsley is also on the boards of the Sustainable Food Alliance, Center for Interfaith Relations and Roxie Theater in San Francisco.
Owsley graduated from the University of Virginia in 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and their three children.
Lyntoria Newton is an independent documentary filmmaker and creative producer in the SF Bay Area. Lyn has produced content for outlets such as The Boston Globe, PBA30, The University of Michigan, The Ford Foundation and others. Her work has shown at festivals across the U.S and internationally. She holds a B.A. from Hampshire College and an M.F.A. in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University where she completed her thesis film, Hey Little Black Girl The short essay film explores black girlhood through the coming of age stories of four little black girls living in the SF Bay Area (Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, 2019). With support from the Ford Foundation, she is producing Basic Able, a satirical podcast devoted to disrupting ableist representations of disability. She is the Associate Producer on OBP’s forthcoming feature documentary, River City Drumbeat, co-directed by Marlon Johnson and Anne Flatté.
Jeff Boyette has been working in the film and video industry in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2007. Jeff began as an assistant and eventually staff editor at Remedy Editorial in San Francisco where he worked with a variety of corporate clients and assisted on a number of feature length documentaries. Jeff edited for Mark Decena, award winning director and founder of Kontent Films, on a number of short projects, and as additional editor on the feature length documentary, Watershed: Exploring A New Water Ethic For The New West. Jeff teamed up with Decena again to edit the feature documentary Not Without Us. Jeff has also worked with director, producer James Redford on several films including working as one of three editors on his HBO documentary Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution (2017). In 2015, Jeff was brought on as an editor for Serenade For Haiti, directed by Owsley Brown, (DocNYC, 2016). Jeff edited Symphony For Nature: The Britt Orchestra at Crater Lake (Ashland Independent Film Festival, 2018; PBS National Broadcast, 2019) as well as a multiple episodes in the Music Makes A City NOW series, directed by Anne Flatté. Jeff is currently editing OBP’s forthcoming feature documentary, River City Drumbeat, co-directed by Marlon Johnson and Anne Flatté.
Tina Tom is Office Manager and in-house graphic designer. Tina is responsible for day-to-day office operations, including facilities management, technology and information systems management, graphic design and accounting support. She is also a painter and mixed media artist. Her artwork focuses on the representation of natural elements in unnatural settings. She is currently working on a series of interactive fine art pieces that bring the viewer in as an accomplice in the manipulation of nature through artistic depictions. Her artwork has been exhibited in group shows throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
Tina earned a bachelor of arts degree in Arts Education from San Francisco State University. She lives in San Francisco, CA.
Vincent Tremblay is a filmmaker and musician based in Oakland, California, whose projects reflect an experimental approach to the outdoors and the arts. His short films have played in festivals across the U.S., and he has worked as a cinematographer, editor, and producer on films ranging from documentary to experimental.
Lauren Veen is a producer, shooter, and editor who works with independent, non-profit and corporate organizations throughout the Bay Area. Her documentary work tends to focus on subjects related to the arts, the environment, labor, the LGBTQ community, and immigration.
Outside of Owsley Brown Presents, she is co-editor of Resource Renewal Institute’s "Forces of Nature," an online video archive which preserves and shares the collective wisdom of environmental luminaries. She recently edited "The Long Ride," a film about the Immigrant Worker's Freedom Ride and the birth of the new Immigrant Civil Rights Movement. Lauren was also an editor for the recently released documentary "4 Wheel Bob," which tells the extraordinary story of an environmentalist's attempt to cross the Sierras in a wheelchair, and served as DP for "An Acquired Taste: The Journey of Young Locavore Hunters," which follows three teenagers who learn how to hunt as a way of connecting with nature, their sustenance, and themselves.
Lauren graduated from Brown University with a degree in History and holds a Masters in Education from Mills College. She taught in Bay Area public schools for six years before studying filmmaking at San Francisco State University. She is based in Oakland, California.