Aurora Brachman is an Emmy Award-winning documentary director, producer, and cinematographer. She was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Through patient and poetic storytelling her films explore narratives of intimate relationships within families and communities. Her latest film, HOLD ME CLOSE, premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Her short documentaries, including WHEN THE REVOLUTION DOESN’T COME, CLUB QUARANTINE, JOYCHILD, STILL WATERS, and THE GALLERY THAT DESTROYS ALL SHAME, have been acquired by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, and POV; shortlisted for an IDA Award; selected for Vimeo Staff Picks; exhibited at the MoMA, and screened at numerous festivals including Sundance, True/False, Hot Docs, BlackStar, and SFFILM. She co-produced Apple TV+’s GIRLS STATE (Sundance 2024), associate produced A24’s STEPHEN CURRY: UNDERRATED (Sundance 2023); and assisted on the critically acclaimed Showtime docuseries COUPLES THERAPY. Aurora is a graduate of the MFA program in Documentary Film at Stanford University, a Sundance Ignite Fellow, a Chicken & Egg (Egg)celerator Lab Fellow, a Chicken & Egg Films | POV Shorts Co-Production Fund recipient, an SFFILM FilmHouse Resident, and a BAVC MediaMaker Fellow. She is also the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in filmmaking.

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ABOUT Dear You

After escaping an abusive marriage and fleeing to the US, Grace James finds herself trapped in the US asylum system for 10 years. In this poetic portrait of a woman in limbo, haunting memories begin to resurface of Grace’s past life and her disappearing homeland—the island nation of Kiribati.

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Film

Dear You

Program Affiliation

Firelight Fund

Cohort Year

2025

Website

aurorabrachman.com

Instagram

@aurorabobora