Pamela Brown's Biography

Pam Brown is a writer and filmmaker living in Brooklyn, NY.  Her writing has been published in books and magazines, and her films have screened at film festivals including Sundance. 

 

Pam was involved in motion picture development and production for over a decade in New York and Los Angeles.  Her career crossed both independent and studio arenas, having worked with companies such as Artisan Entertainment, The Manheim Company, Primary Pictures, Revolution Studios, Moving Pictures International, and 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks.

As a Literary Manager, Pam represented writers who sold scripts to Hollywood studios, as well as writers who were active in independent filmmaking.  She has served as a judge for the Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition and has been a representative at pitch festivals including The Hollywood Pitch Festival and the Fade In Pitch Festival.

Pam holds her undergraduate degree in Philosophy from Dartmouth College, and attended the MFA program at Columbia University’s Film School, where she studied with such highly regarded filmmakers and writers as James Schamus (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Richard Pêna (New York Film Festival), and Terry Southern (Easy Rider, Dr. Strangelove).   

After many years of facing the challenges of creating socially conscious content within our corporate dominated media system, Pam began to consider the relationships between narrative, media, memory and society.  She began to study these relationships formally in the Media Studies program at The New School, where she has completed a Master of Arts degree.  She is currently working toward completing a PhD in Sociology at The New School for Social Research with a specialties in media and memory. 

 

Her interests include:  sociology of memory, sociology of story, political economy of media, political sociology, cultural sociology, historical sociology, media theory, sociology of technology, media policy and contemporary American politics.

 

She is currently writing a non-fiction book on the relationship between neoliberalism, technology and economic change, and developing a documentary film about the power of how we remember African-American history.