Mystelle Brabbee

Mystelle Brabbée produced, directed and photographed Highway Courtesans, a documentary she has been working on since 1995. She also holds the position of Artistic Director for the Nantucket Film Festival, a festival for screenwriters and storytellers, where she has curated the film program for the past nine years. As Artistic Director, she is responsible for the programming line-up of 50 feature, documentary and short films, the NBC Universal Screenwriter Tribute, the Staged Readings Series, the Screenplay Competition, the Teen View on NFF Filmmaking program, the Official Jury and all New York City and Boston Special Programming events. Previously Brabbée was the Director of Acquisitions for article27, a London based firm known for obtaining rights to independent niche films, and syndicating them to Internet portals and video-on-demand providers. Mystelle Brabbée received a B.F.A. from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. (03/05)

Highway Courtesans
A film by Mystelle Brabbee, 2005, 71 min., Color/BW
This provocative coming-of-age film chronicles the story of a bold young woman born into the Bachara community in Central India – the last hold-out of...