ABOUT
Bryan Donnell is a director of photography, primarily of documentary. COUNTDOWN TO ZERO, his most recent film, was produced by Participant Productions and Lawrence Bender and premiered at Sundance this year. It has since screened also at Cannes, and will be released in theaters in July 2010 by Magnolia Pictures.
In 2009 Bryan received an Emmy nomination (single name) for Outstanding Reality Cinematography for his work on A&E’s INTERVENTION, which also won the Emmy for Outstanding Reality Show. Other awards: BEAN CAKE, a short narrative film, won the Palme d’Or for shorts at the Cannes Film Festival; WAIT MEANS NEVER, a narrative, won best feature and best cinematography at the Melbourne Underground Festival. UNDESIRABLES, a short doc on homeless children in Russia, won both a student Oscar and a student Emmy. Bryan was honored to shoot interviews and additional footage for Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar’s Emmy-winning MADE IN L.A., which premiered on P.o.V.
Other recent projects: a shoot last year for HBO in Dubai, following the International Youth Qu’ran Competition; a project in South Africa on the ELDERS (Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu, et al.) and their first closed-door meetings, for Richard Branson’s Virgin Unite; an indie doc on a radical mentorship program starting at the Seattle Women’s Prison; continued work on INTERVENTION as well as for an upcoming sister show on the aftermath of drug treatment; part of a 30 DAYS (Morgan Spurlock) episode (sadly, just before the show decided to quit shooting); HOUSEQUAKE, a doc on the Democrat’s takeover of Congress, featuring Rahm Emmanuel, Nancy Pelosi, et al.; and shows for History, Discovery, Travel, Nat Geo, SyFy, and others.
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