BROWN PLANET PRODUCTIONS
Brown Planet Productions is a Chicago based multimedia production studio founded by Carlos Javier Ortiz, a published photographer, filmmaker, and community leader. Our work centers around the beautiful struggle and perseverance of black and brown life. Through the mediums of narrative and documentary story-telling, BPP strives to document and illuminate untold stories and impart empathy and challenge alterity through the visual arts. As well as elevate creators of color through education, opportunity, and our on-going inclusive developments.
Brown Planet Productions explores issues of discrimination, violence, poverty, pollution, migration, marginalization and human rights with decades long contributions to local and national media outlets. By approaching storytelling through historical context and ethnography and collaging images of social realism with that of contemporary styles of filmmaking, we seek to design original films that encapsulate the truth within black and brown communities.
Imran Is Stateless | BBC World Service + Sundance Institute
We All We Got
A Thousand Midnights
Picturing Justice Photography Festival
Picturing Justice 2017 is a collaboration between Atlanta Celebrates Photography and Atlanta Legal Aid Society, which provides legal services to metro Atlantans living in poverty. “One of the most pressing issues for our city is to ensure that affordable housing is a priority.” - curator, Mary Stanley.