Broderick spent several childhood years in Tokyo and his twenties back and forth between Berlin and Los Angeles. His creative perspective is therefore markedly international and critical for an American filmmaker. Fox graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University and received both his M.F.A. and Ph.D. from USC's School of Cinematic Arts.
Broderick’s award winning narrative, experimental, and documentary works have screened internationally—theatrically, on television, at film festivals, and online. Tak For Alt: Survival of a Human Spirit, a documentary Fox co-directed and edited, won the Dore Schary Award, received a national PBS broadcast, a theatrical release in Los Angeles, and garnered special recognition from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in their Best Documentary Series.
Fox’s film love, death, & cars received PBS television broadcast and was the longest running gay/lesbian drama on AtomFilms.com. The film recently garnered international distribution through Village Lighthouse on the compilation DVD First Out 2.
Fox’s screenwriting work has won or received finalist and semifinalist nods in over 20 national competitions and has been workshopped as part of the Sundance Independent Producers Program. His screenplay Migration won the 2007 Arizona Screenplay Challenge. Another screenplay Picture Man won the 2008 Circle of Confusion Screenwriting Competition and garnered second place at the 2009 Canada International Film Festival Screenwriting Competition.
Fox’s award-winning video things girls do... (2001) premiered at Outfest Los Angeles and continues to play internationally. It was recently picked up by HDFEST Online for showcase streaming. Fox’s short I Knew Him (2007) was a finalist for the 2007 International Iris Prize, the world’s largest prize for work representing or advocating for LGBT individuals. I Knew Him... continues to play the international film festival circuit and stream on LAFreewaves. His most recent project home (2009) premiered in Berlin at the Globians World and Culture Documentary Festival and continues to play internationally.
Broderick works professionally as a film and video editor of various narrative shorts and documentaries. He currently in post-production on his next project, a feature-length documentary entitled The Skin I’m In.
Fox is a professor of Film & Media Studies at Occidental College, teaching courses in both theory and production. He is a regular presenter at the annual conferences of the Society of Film and Media Studies, and his articles have been published in Spectator and Film Quarterly. His book, Documentary Media: History - Theory -Practice is now available through Pearson Press.
Broderick Fox – Writer, Director
