Brittney Shepherd Independent Mediamaker

Brittney is a San Francisco-based independent media maker. Currently, Brittney is directing her first feature doc, EYE, CAMERA which follows monocular visual artist Tanya Vlach as she sets out to install a camera inside her prosthetic eye and confronts ethnical and existential dilemmas from her controversial decision. Brittney is the co-producer of A FRAGILE TRUST (ITVS/Sheffield 2013), about the Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal at the NYTimes and the co-producer of OUT RUN about openly gay politicians in the developing world (ITVS/Sundance Time Warner). She is also the co-creator of the ITVS news game, Decisions on Deadline. Brittney is the former staff producer at GroundSpark, where she produced award-winning films alongside the Academy-Award winning director Debra Chasnoff. Brittney holds a B.A. from UC Berkeley in Ethnic Studies and is a 2013 BAVC Media Maker Fellow and 2013 CPB/PBS Producer’s Academy alum.