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Multi-talented writer-director Dusan Brown, born and raised in Chicago, relocated to Hollywood early to pursue his growing career in the entertainment industry. Around age twelve, Brown had an opportunity to write, direct, edit, and score his first short film with equipment, a crew, and even a set mentor. Although the program targets high school students, Ghetto Film School selected Brown as one of the youngest Fellows ever admitted.

Brown, a 2024 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences GOLD Rising Fellow and 2023 Student Academy Award Semifinalist, is an ever-evolving creative and recent graduate of Chapman University Dodge College of Film & Media Arts, having matriculated their Film Production program with Directing as his major and Philosophy his minor. His last short, All In, an edgy drama that he wrote, directed, starred in, wrapped its festival run having screened at three Oscar-qualifying film festivals as well as eight others, and won Best Actor at the highly competitive, Oscar-qualifying Los Angeles International Shorts Film Festival. Over the past eight years, Brown filmed over 40 short films and music video projects, either independently or in collaboration with peers.

Brown is also an esteemed U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts (Film) and a prestigious National YoungArts Foundation, Gold Level Winner (Film). He was chosen to attend Sundance 2025 with YoungArts along with four other talented, emerging filmmakers.

Having worked as a professional actor all his life, Brown is an AFI Awards Honoree, NAACP Image Award Winner (Outstanding Cast), earned over 20 professional acting credits ranging from the Netflix Oscar-Winning feature, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom to the motion picture 42, a plethora of guest star roles on hit TV shows, as well as a series regular on major network, animated shows. Still growing in his craft, at such a young age, he has already worked with and starred alongside Hollywood heavyweights Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman (2x), Colman Domingo, Glynn Turman, Director George C. Wolfe, Director Brian Helgeland, Producer Todd Black and many more.

As a filmmaker and film lover, Brown finds himself transfixed with stories about anti-heroic characters whose problems deal with ethics and morality. These are the types of thought-provoking stories Brown plans to continue making, as they grant the ability to shed light on societal issues not faced by just African Americans but stories that demonstrate common threads within humanity.