Dustin Brown

Dustin is a graduate of the American Film Institute Directing Program and a member of Santa Monica College's Film Production Advisory Board. He is a director and screenwriter with a passion for telling character-driven, socially conscious stories.

His short film SOLIDARITY, an intimate portrait of two undocumented immigrants in LA, has screened in competition at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival Emerging Filmmaker Showcase, a BAFTA U.S. Student Film Awards Finalist, and has won numerous awards including the prestigious Kodak Student Film Scholarship. His AFI thesis film CLARITY received the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award for a film that “accurately and positively portrays science and technology” and is beginning its festival run.

Dustin wrote his first feature screenplay at the age of 16. He has recently finished two other feature scripts, EMPIRE and SOLIDARITY, expanded from the short, which he is currently pursuing as his feature film directorial debut.