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Broderick spent his childhood years in Japan, exploring Tokyo’s streets and taking photographs, later writing short stories inspired by the images. As an undergraduate, Broderick attended Harvard University, where he studied an eclectic mix of marine biology, creative writing, painting, and documentary filmmaking. Broderick received his MFA in production from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television, where he focused on screenwriting, directing, and editing. It was here where his original script love, death, & cars was selected as one of four graduate projects to be produced at USC in the fall of 1999. During his time at USC, Broderick also co-directed and edited the independent documentary Tak For Alt: Survival of a Human Spirit, which won the National Educational Media’s Gold Apple Award and a Dore Schary Award, has appeared in numerous festivals, received a theatrical run at Los Angeles Laemmle Theaters, was presented with a special documentary award from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, and which aired nationally on PBS television last spring. Broderick is presently completing a Ph.D. in Critical Studies at USC, writing a dissertation investigating manifestations of, and potentials for, subjectivity and autobiography on film and video. Integrating
his film/videomaking and critical endeavors, Broderick’s production
works of late have fittingly embraced the new amateur potentials of
digital video and PC based digital In addition, Broderick continues to work as an editor on various documentary and narrative projects. He has also penned two feature scripts and continues to strike a balance between narrative and critical writing. A recent critical work of Broderick’s was published in the Summer 2001 issue of Film Quarterly. A
Silverlake resident and artist, Broderick was in Berlin for four months
last summer, working as assistant director and editor on German filmmaker
Alexander Pfeuffer’s Frühstück? (Breakfast? 2002). Broderick
will return to Berlin this June and July to continue work on his next
project, So You’re Dead…Now What?, a how-to guide in living
wills and other after-death considerations, intended to demystify and
destigmatize discourse on death and dying. |
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