Dwight Brown
Dwight Brown is the film critic for the National Newspaper Publishers Association and its website BlackPressUSA.Com. His writing is syndicated by the NNPA to over 200 African-American newspapers, with a combined readership of up to 15 million. He is also a film critic for Upscale Magazine and his film reviews and articles have appeared in the Hollywood Reporter, Essence, Details, New York Daily News and Emerge.
In the '80s, along with New York Times critic Janet Maslin and New York Daily News reviewer Kathleen Carroll, he formed The Children's Screening Project, an offshoot of the New York Film Critics Circle. The Project, with help from the Children's Aid Society, screened films for children who resided in welfare hotels. He championed the Circle's New Director Category and was the group's chairman in 1989.
He has written scripts for shorts (The Lost Juror, winner of the Tribeca Film Festival Nokia Phone Contest 2005), TV (Cinemax's Blue Hotel series) and a feature film screenplay, the political thriller "Black Irish." He earned his B.A. and M.A. from San Francisco State University. He's a graduate of the NAMIC Executive Leadership Development Program at the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at U.C.L.A. He was a member of the improvisational theater group, Split Second Theater.
He does speaking engagements, lectures and workshops on film criticism, 3-Act 3-Page Treatments, direct marketing, etc. He is represented by Speakers Etcetera/Black Speakers Online.
Dwight Brown's website is www.dwightbrownink.com.
