Company: Vermilion
Website: vermilionpictures.com

rene Taylor Brodsky:
Irene is an Emmy award-winning producer, director, writer and cinematographer whose documentaries have shown on television and at film festivals worldwide.   Her first feature-length film, Hear and Now, premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Audience Award.  The film  went on to receive numerous Audience and Jury awards, was nominated for Documentary of the Year by the Producer’s Guild of America, and has been acquired by HBO.

Irene’s passion for documentary portraiture began as a still photographer, with her landmark photography book, Buddhas in Disguise, about the lives of disabled people across the Himalayas.  It became the basis for her first documentary film, Ishara, produced for UNICEF in 1992. In 2004, Irene won an Emmy for The Rural Studio, her CBS portrait of the late architect Samuel Mockbee and his legacy in the American South.  She co-directed Latex Sex for HBO, a documentary short about a fetish clothing designer, and as Producer, Writer and Cinematographer Irene has directed numerous television documentaries.  Irene lived with renegade polygamist Alex Joseph and his nine wives to make ‘Til Death do us Part (CBS), investigated the fragile state of American Health Care in Managing your HMO (A&E) and ER Diaries (Fox), and a took an award-winning look at history education in America in Generation H (The History Channel).  She also worked as a staff producer for CBS Sunday Morning from 2000 – 2002, producing many documentary shorts on subjects ranging from Bollywood to the world of American Bluegrass music.

Irene graduated from NYU and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and lived in Kathmandu, Nepal from 1992-1996.  In addition to filmmaking, she has led more than 10 Himalayan expeditions and teaches photography and film.  

She currently lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, Matt, and her son, Jonas.