About Natalie

Natalie Bullock Brown is the proud director of the Documentary Accountability Working Group, a collective she helped to found in 2020, which released a values-informed framework for documentary filmmakers that emphasizes care, consent, and collaborations as a pathway to ethical storytelling. She is also a documentary film producer; a 2023 Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center Documentary Film Fellow; a 2023 DOC NYC New Leader; and a 2021 Rockwood Institute JustFilms Fellow. Natalie is director/producer of a documentary work-in-progress that explores the impact of messaging about beauty and aging on Black women, and was a producer on award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt’s PBS documentary, HAZING, as well as his PBS NOVA film, Lee and Liza’s Family Tree. She has also produced with filmmaker Resita Cox for her upcoming film, Basketball Heaven. Natalie is an adjunct professor at North Carolina State University where she served as an Assistant Teaching Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies for five years. Natalie was also a monthly guest and contributor for #BackChannel, a segment on North Carolina public radio’s program, The State of Things. And for nearly 12 years, Natalie was an assistant professor of film and broadcast media in the Department of Media & Communications at Saint Augustine’s University. She also served 12 years as co-host of Black Issues Forum, a public affairs program on UNC-TV, North Carolina’s statewide public television network. Natalie was an associate producer on documentary filmmaker Ken Burns’ 10-part PBS series, Jazz. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Film Production from Howard University, and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Northwestern University.