Liane Brandon
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Director
- Producer
Liane Brandon is an award winning independent filmmaker, photographer and University of Massachusetts/Amherst Professor Emeritus. She was one of the first independent women filmmakers to emerge from the Women's Movement.
During that time she was a member of Newsreel film collective and Bread and Roses, one of the earliest women's liberation groups in Boston. She was also a founding member of FilmWomen of Boston and Boston Film/Video Foundation. She is a co-founder of New Day Films, the nationally known filmmaker distribution cooperative.
Brandon's groundbreaking films "Anything You Want To Be" (1971) and "Betty Tells Her Story" (1972) were among the earliest and most frequently used consciousness raising tools of the Women's Movement. Her films, which also include "Once Upon A Choice", "How To Prevent A Nuclear War" and "Fine Print", have won numerous national and international awards, and have been featured on HBO, USA Cable, TLC and Cinemax. They have twice received Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival, and have been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Chicago Art Institute and the Tribeca Film Festival and at the legendary Orson Welles Cinema in Cambridge, MA.
"Anything You Want To Be" and "Betty Tells Her Story" have been preserved with grants from the Women's Film Preservation Fund.
Currently working as a still photographer, her photography credits include "Murder at Harvard" (PBS American Experience), "Typhoid Mary: The Most Dangerous Woman In America" (PBS Nova), "Unsolved Mysteries", "The Powder & the Glory", and "Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women" (PBS American Masters), "Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive" (PBS American Masters). Her photos have been published in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, New York Daily News and many other publications, as well as featured in gallery exhibits.
Brandon is the recipient of the Boston Society of Film Critics Award and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Boston University. She has served as a juror for the student Academy Awards and as an education consultant for WGBH -TV. She was named "Pioneer Woman Filmmaker" by CineWomen of New York.
Brandon's work has been profiled in The Boston Globe, International Documentary Magazine, Variety, The Chicago Tribune, Film Library Quarterly, Documentary Storytelling for Film, Videomakers and many other publications.
In addition to her role as Professor of Education at the University of Massachusetts, she was also the Director of UMass Educational Television which produced award winning, original educational programming for cable/home audiences throughout New England.
Actively involved with the rights of media artists, her lawsuit (Brandon v. The Regents of the University of California) won a landmark victory for filmmakers' protection of their titles.
Before becoming a filmmaker, Brandon experimented with several short careers, working as a ski instructor, file clerk, high school teacher and professional stunt woman.
During that time she was a member of Newsreel film collective and Bread and Roses, one of the earliest women's liberation groups in Boston. She was also a founding member of FilmWomen of Boston and Boston Film/Video Foundation. She is a co-founder of New Day Films, the nationally known filmmaker distribution cooperative.
Brandon's groundbreaking films "Anything You Want To Be" (1971) and "Betty Tells Her Story" (1972) were among the earliest and most frequently used consciousness raising tools of the Women's Movement. Her films, which also include "Once Upon A Choice", "How To Prevent A Nuclear War" and "Fine Print", have won numerous national and international awards, and have been featured on HBO, USA Cable, TLC and Cinemax. They have twice received Blue Ribbons at the American Film Festival, and have been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Chicago Art Institute and the Tribeca Film Festival and at the legendary Orson Welles Cinema in Cambridge, MA.
"Anything You Want To Be" and "Betty Tells Her Story" have been preserved with grants from the Women's Film Preservation Fund.
Currently working as a still photographer, her photography credits include "Murder at Harvard" (PBS American Experience), "Typhoid Mary: The Most Dangerous Woman In America" (PBS Nova), "Unsolved Mysteries", "The Powder & the Glory", and "Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women" (PBS American Masters), "Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive" (PBS American Masters). Her photos have been published in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, New York Daily News and many other publications, as well as featured in gallery exhibits.
Brandon is the recipient of the Boston Society of Film Critics Award and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Boston University. She has served as a juror for the student Academy Awards and as an education consultant for WGBH -TV. She was named "Pioneer Woman Filmmaker" by CineWomen of New York.
Brandon's work has been profiled in The Boston Globe, International Documentary Magazine, Variety, The Chicago Tribune, Film Library Quarterly, Documentary Storytelling for Film, Videomakers and many other publications.
In addition to her role as Professor of Education at the University of Massachusetts, she was also the Director of UMass Educational Television which produced award winning, original educational programming for cable/home audiences throughout New England.
Actively involved with the rights of media artists, her lawsuit (Brandon v. The Regents of the University of California) won a landmark victory for filmmakers' protection of their titles.
Before becoming a filmmaker, Brandon experimented with several short careers, working as a ski instructor, file clerk, high school teacher and professional stunt woman.
