Ted Braun (Director, Writer, Producer) works in nonfiction filmmaking across documentary and scripted forms, with a focus on global conflict. Braun’s critically acclaimed first feature film, Darfur Now, earned him the International Documentary Association Award for Emerging Filmmaker of the Year (2007). The film was nominated for best documentary of 2007 by the National Board of Review and the Broadcast Film Critics Association. It went on to win the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary. Warner Bros. distributed Darfur Now worldwide and financed it along with

Participant, which spearheaded a global social action campaign. The winter 2008 issue of MovieMaker magazine named Braun one of 25 filmmakers whose work has changed the world (alongside luminaries such as Errol Morris, Oliver Stone, Michael Moore and Robert Redford).
His most recent feature documentary, Betting on Zero, was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for best documentary screenplay of 2017. The film chronicles the campaign of controversial hedge fund titan Bill Ackman and Latina activist Julie Contreras to expose Herbalife as a massive international pyramid scheme. Betting on Zero premiered in the Documentary Competition at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2016, where it won a special jury mention for investigative work.

Braun teaches screenwriting at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where he is also the inaugural holder of the Joseph Campbell Endowed Chair in Cinematic Ethics. In its April 2018 report on the best film schools, Variety magazine named Braun one of the world’s “Top Ten Teachers in Film and TV.”