Brent Edward Huffman (born September 4, 1979) is an American director, writer, and cinematographer of documentaries and television programs, including Saving Mes Aynak (2015). His work has been featured on Netflix, Discovery Channel, The National Geographic Channel, VICE, NBC, CNN, PBS, Time, The New York Times, Al Jazeera America and Al Jazeera English and premiered at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), and many other U.S. and international film festivals.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] He is also a professor at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University where he teaches documentary production and theory.[10]
Brent Huffman is a producer of Finding Yingying (2020), an MTV documentary film that premiered at SXSW in 2020 and won the Breakthrough Voice Jury Award. Finding Yingying was nominated for an Emmy in 2021 in the Best Investigative Documentary category. The film is currently streaming on Paramount+.
Brent Huffman's Saving Mes Aynak (2015) has won over 30 major awards and has been broadcast on television in over 70 countries. It can currently be seen on Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, and on Special Edition DVD with Icarus Films.
His new documentary, Strands of Resistance (2021), examining China's economic relationship with Pakistan, premiered on Vice and Vice News Tonight. A vignette of the documentary called Uyghurs Who Fled China Now Face Repression in Pakistan won a Rory Peck Award in the Best News Feature category at the British Film Institute in London in 2021.
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- ^ "Chinese company and Taliban battle over Afghanistan's underground riches". america.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2016-02-15.
- ^ Huffman, Brent E. (2013-04-23). "A Chinese Threat to Afghan Buddhas". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-02-15.
- ^ "Brent Huffman - Medill - Northwestern University". www.medill.northwestern.edu. Retrieved 2016-02-15.