Professional Bio

Director DAVID LEBRUN has served as producer, director, writer, cinematographer, animator and/or editor of more than sixty films, among them films on the Mazatec Indians of Oaxaca, a 1960s traveling commune, Tibetan mythology and a year in the life of a Maya village. He edited the Academy-award winning documentary Broken Rainbow, on the Hopi and Navajo of the American Southwest.

Lebrun’s animated feature documentary Proteus premiered at Sundance in January 2004 and has won numerous international awards. His experimental and animated works include the animated film Tanka (1976), works for multiple and variable-speed projectors such as Wind Over Water (1983), and a 2007 multimedia performance piece, Maya Variations, in collaboration with composer Yuval Ron.

Lebrun has taught film production and editing at the California Institute of the Arts and has curated numerous art exhibitions. He was president of First Light Video Publishing from 1987-1996, and since then president of Night Fire Films. He was a founding Board Member of the Center for Visual Music (CVM) and is on the Advisory Board of the Chabot Space & Science Center’s Maya Skies project. For a complete biography and filmography, please www.nightfirefilms.org

Expertise & Interest Descriptors

Documentary filmmaker

Planned Conference Participation

Attending :: ISE PI Summit 2008
25 - 26 July 2008