Wendy Braitman

Who is Wendy Braitman?

Wendy Braitman is a media veteran who began her career as an on-air journalist and co-producer for In Review, a cable television show in San Francisco. She conceived, produced and hosted the public radio program Reel Talk, and distributed the documentary films I’m Still Alive and The Right to Fight, which were among the first in America to candidly talk about what it was like for people living with AIDS.

Braitman co-founded IFFCON and was its director from 1994-2001, during which time it became one of North America’s foremost incubators for independent film. As Associate Producer of the Emmy-nominated film The Celluloid Closet, she secured a deal for financing and broadcast with German and French television. She helped launch the Silverdocs: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival, consulted with MTV Films/Europe on the launch of a new European film division, and pioneered a web project linking filmmakers with financing executives. For her visionary leadership as a media arts executive, she was awarded a prestigious fellowship from the Gerbode Foundation.

Braitman has now moved online with First Person Singular: Notes From an Unmarried Life. The site is an online gathering place, resource guide and venting booth for single women — created when Braitman unwittingly became an expert.