Nathaniel Brown is a filmmaker and photographer making work about place, belonging, and community.

He is a Fulbright Scholar; fluent in Chinese; and has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Vice, Vogue, Nowness, Dazed, CNN, and the South China Morning Post. His work has been supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Mellon Foundation and has been shown at festivals including Hawaii IFF, Big Sky IFF, and Cleveland IFF, with awards for best cinematography, best documentary, and the audience choice award.

He attended both National Taiwan University in Taipei, Tsinghua University in Beijing, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Middlebury College. Beyond film, he has also been the Director of Product at Wing on Wo and Co, a fifth-generation porcelain store in New York’s Chinatown, for the last eight years. After more than a decade in Asia, he is currently based between Los Angeles and Taipei.
 


select clients:
Nike | Nowness | Eyesteelfilm | | National Endowment for the Arts | Adcouncil | The Kennedy Center | The United Nations | The World Bank | Jacob’s Pillow | Amazon | Verizon | Paco Robbane | CNN | SCMP |Great Big Story | Goldthread | BalletX | Asia Week New York | Centre Pompidou | Shanghai Center of Photography | UCCA | Sotheby’s | The British Council | IFF | LEAP | IDEO  


festival screenings:
Doc NYC | Hawaii International Film Festival | Big Sky Documentary Film Festival | Cleveland International Film Festival | Dance on Camera |  Cannes Court Métrage | CAAM Fest | DOXA | Reel Asian, Honorable Mention - “Big Fight in Little Chiantown” Best Feature Film 2022 | LA Asian Pacific Film Festival | Asian American International Film Festival, “Mahalang” Winner Best Documentary 2021 | San Diego Asian Pacific Film Festival | Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival