Aurora Brachman is an Emmy-award-winning filmmaker who has directed several documentaries, including Hold Me Close, Still Waters, and When The Revolution Doesn’t Come. (Note: Visit her website for a full list of her films.)
Films
Hold Me Close
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(2025)
A chronicle of the power and complexity of the relationship between Corinne and Tiana, two Queer Black womxn who experience cycles of life's joys and pains together in the home they share.
When The Revolution Doesn't Come
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(2025)
Born into the 1970s revolutionary movement for Black equality and self-determination, they have lived in the shadows of a promised land that was never attained. We join them as they continue to wrestle, 50 years later, with the dichotomy of their extraordinary childhoods: the enormous pride and love it gave them as members of the Black Panther family, and the booming loss they endured – of parents, of security, and of the hope for radical change that did not materialise. That hope lives on in the cubs, and their reflections on America’s current crisis offers burning lessons for today.
Still Waters
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(2022)
Through a series of extraordinarily honest and intimate conversations, filmmaker Aurora Brachman examines the intergenerational fallout of experiences her mother endured as a child. Together, they forge a path forward that offers them a new beginning.
