Vee Bravo

Vee Bravo is a New York native by way of Chile who has documented hip hop, Latinx culture and politics for the past 25 years. As a filmmaker Bravo co-produced, with Loira Limbal, the PBS documentary ESTILO HIP HOP [2009] which chronicles the rise of hip hop activism across Latin America. In 2009 he was hired by the late Albert Maysles to launch the Education Department at the Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem, New York. From 2011-2018, Bravo served as Vice President Education at Tribeca Film Institute. Here, Bravo spearheaded a vast array of filmmaking and social impact programs that reached an excess of 30,000 students in public schools and prisons across the nation. Bravo is also the producer and director of PRIMERA, a feature length documentary about the 2020 social uprising in Chile. Bravo earned a BA in Latin America & Caribbean Area Studies from Binghamton University and a MS in Urban Policy from The New School University.

PROGRAM AFFILIATION

Spark Fund

COHORT YEAR

2022

INSTAGRAM

@veebravo


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