Margaret Brown received the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards for her second documentary feature, The Order Of Myths, which was also nominated for best documentary. Brown also received the Cinematic Vision Award for The Order Of Myths at the 2008 Silverdocs Film Festival, and the 2008 Grierson Youth Jury Award in England. The film was on many critics’ top 10 lists and was a Critics Pick in the New York Times. Brown’s first feature was the acclaimed documentary Be Here To Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and received worldwide theatrical distribution in 2005. In 2009, Brown was also a Cultural Ambassador for Documentary Filmmaking from the United States to Colombia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan.She earned her BA from Brown University in creative writing/modern culture and media and her MFA in Film from New York University. Currently she is writing her first dramatic feature film, The Vultures.
