Brent E. Huffman is an award winning director and cinematographer of numerous documentaries and TV news stories. His work ranges from documentaries made for Frontline/World on PBS, to Sundance Film Festival award winners, to television series made for The Discovery Channel and The National Geographic Channel, to educational films made for the China Exploration and Research Society. Huffman has been making social issue documentaries and environmental films for over ten years in Ohio, California, Afghanistan, China, Haiti, and Puerto Rico. These films have gone on to win numerous festival award s including a Primetime Emmy, two Cine Golden Eagle Award s, a College Emmy, a Student Academy Award , and a Grand Jury Award at AFI's Silverdocs 2004 in Washington DC. He was a former student of the documentary program at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley under Academy Award winning director Jon Else. Before that he worked closely with documentary filmmakers Julia Reichert, Jim Klein, and Steven Bognar responsible for the Academy Award nominated films "Seeing Red" and "Union Maids." Huffman was also an editor and shooter of Julia Reichert's and Steven Bognar's Emmy winning documentary series "A Lion in the House" about children battling cancer. This film, which aired in June 2006 on PBS, also won the Best Documentary Prize at the Nashville Film Festival and Special Jury Prizes at both the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and the Cleveland International Film Festival along with receiving rave reviews from critics. Brent E. Huffman currently lives and works in Southern California.
Brent E. Huffman is also an award winning painter. He paints in oils in the French Impressionist style. He studied under Julia Reichert and Jim Klein.