Garrett Bradley

Garrett Bradley is an American artist and filmmaker based in New Orleans, Louisiana she directs for cinema and Netflix alongside making museum and gallery exhibitions. Her films explore the space between fact and fiction, blurring the boundaries between traditional notions of narrative and documentary cinema.

A.K.A (2019) is the first in a trilogy of films about relationships between women, in this case relationships between mothers and daughters born into mixed-race families or families of the same race with varying skin tones. Like many of Garrett Bradley’s films, the experimental short developed out of hours-long conversations between Bradley and the female actors she casts.

Her Academy Award-nominated documentary Time (2020) was nominated for over 57 awards and won 20, including a Peabody Award, and the Sundance Film Festival, making her the first Black woman to win Best Director. America (2019), her much acclaimed film, is a documentary constructed of found images showing the representation of black people in the culture of America. In 2019 Bradley was honoured with the prestigious Prix de Rome by The American Academy in Rome and in 2022, she was awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.