Brean Cunningham

Lead producer in the field, writer, and story producer for Season 2 and 3 of the Atlas Obscura travel show, Small Town, Big Story • Shaped creative vision and story arc for Season 2 & 3 episodes in tandem with director through identifying and interviewing key characters, locations, and historical experts • Handled all pre-production such as research, scheduling shoots, pre-screening character interviews, casting, obtaining film production insurance, and creating and managing budget • Lead archival producer who sourced and cleared all archival footage used in the episodes

Producer on Showtime Sports documentary feature film, Basketball County: In the Water, that explores how and why Prince George's County, Maryland produces more professional basketball players than anywhere else in the world. Story producer who helped identify and shape narrative story arc. Lead archival producer who sourced, negotiated, and tracked all footage licensing agreements. Assisted with managing film budget and sourcing personnel for film completion.

• Prep, film, story produce, and edit short documentaries about The OpEd Project’s initiative to support and motivate professors from underrepresented backgrounds at top academic institutions in the U.S. to get their ideas published and into the mainstream.

Co-Director/Cinematographer/Producer/Editor for award-winning feature-length documentary film about a unique prison-dog training program and the loving relationships that form between inmates and dogs. Film was released on Netflix in 2015. www.dogsontheinside.com

Field produced, recorded sound and assisted the Director/DP on the Baltimore segment of the PBS NOVA documentary, The Violence Paradox.

• Oversaw creative, logistics, scheduling, and crew for various social media content shoots and edits.

• Developed, produced, and post-produced a series of short documentary films about climate change for Al Gore’s NGO, The Climate Reality Project • Directed and produced a short documentary film about wind energy in Wyoming • Researched, developed, and pitched story ideas to Al Gore and his team • Oversaw field production crews on international documentary shoots

• Developed, produced, and post-produced a series of short documentary films about climate change for Al Gore’s NGO, The Climate Reality Project • Researched, developed, and pitched story ideas to Al Gore and his team • Oversaw field production crews on international documentary shoots