Brad Lichtenstein What We Got: DJ Spooky’s Quest for the Commons

Brad Lichtenstein

Brad Lichtenstein is president of 371 Productions. His latest film, As Goes Janesville, about how GOP Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan’s hometown tries to reinvent itself amid the loss of its century-old GM plant and the civil war in Wisconsin over unions, is playing festivals across the country and airs on PBS’s Independent Lens series (October 8, 2012 and late January 2013). He’s produced many films for PBS, including Caught in the Crossfire, about Arab New Yorkers in the wake of 9/11, and Almost Home, still featured in workshops on aging around the U.S. Ghosts of Attica was awarded a Dupont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Journalism. Lichtenstein founded docUWM, a documentary center at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he taught from 2003 to 2008. What We Got: DJ Spooky’s Quest for the Commons, a transmedia project-in-progress, is funded by Creative Capital. Lichtenstein is an artist leader in Creative Capital’s Professional Development Program.

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Awards & Accomplishments

  • 2012

    Other - Theatrical Release

    Brad’s film, AS GOES JANESVILLE, plays around the country, from New York’s Stranger than Fiction series at the IFC Center to the Chicago International Film Festival

  • 2012

    Other - PBS Broadcast

    Brad’s film, AS GOES JANESVILLE, airs on the PBS series Independent Lens on October 8, 2012, and again in late January of 2013

  • 2011

    Grant

    Lichtenstein’s As Goes Janesville receives funding from the Pare Lorentz Fund of the International Documentary Association

  • 2011

    Grant

    Lichtenstein’s company, 371 Productions, is awarded a $250,000 grant from The Independent Television Service (ITVS) for completion of As Goes Janesville

  • 2011

    Grant

    Lichtenstein receives support from Media Democracy Fund to develop an online media strategy to foster understanding and support for Net Neutrality

  • 2011

    Grant

    Lichtenstein’s As Goes Janesville receives funding from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and PBS

  • 2010

    Award

    ITVS awards a Research and Development contract to Lichtenstein for new film, As Goes Janesville

  • 2008

    Fellowship

    Lichtenstein receives BAVC Producers Institute for New Media Technologies fellowship

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