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Women Behind the Scenes Spotlight: Bronwen Hughes

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Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on TV and film director Bronwen Hughes.

Bronwen was born and raised in Toronto. She originally wanted to be a journalist, but she decided to study film and photography, graduating from the Department of Film at York University.

Some of her early work was on the 1985 mini-series Anne of Green Gables; working as a director on the Amy Grant video “Lucky One” as well as the documentary Amy Grant: Building the House of Love; working on various TV commercials among a few other projects.

It was her work with the Canadian comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall in 1994 that caught Hollywood’s eye. She was offered the chance to direct a million dollar feature film comedy, but she pulled out at the last minute, opting instead to direct the 1996 box office film Harriet the Spy. She was then invited by none other than Steven Spielberg to make a movie for his production company DreamWorks.

After looking at several scripts, Bronwen chose the 1999 romantic comedy Forces of Nature. The following year she was the Executive Producer on the Penelope Cruz romance Woman on Top and then she was the director (and music supervisor) on the 2003 movie Stander, based on true events and shot in South Africa, which starred Thomas Jane. The movie debuted at the Toronto Film Festival and then went on to play at the Sundance Film Festival.

Since 2006 through 2017 she has been a director on the TV shows The L Word, Breaking Bad, Burn Notice, Royal Pains, White Collar, Hung, Fairly Legal, Motive, Stalker, The Mysteries of Laura, Black Box, Teen Wolf, Allegiance, Shut Eye, Damien, Hawaii Five-0, Queen of the South, 24: Legacy and The Good Doctor.

In 2016, she wrote and director the film The Journey Is the Destination about 22-year-old Dan Eldon, one of the youngest photographic stringers in Africa who was chased down and killed by an angry mob in Somalia.

Her latest directorial work has been on the third season of the EPIX spy drama Berlin Station and the second season of the FOX medical drama The Resident.

Bronwen lives in Los Angeles.

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Using her favorite online handle, Rueben is an East Coast-bred gal who is now a permanent Californian and a lifelong tv-oholic. She watches at least 25 TV shows a week, goes to the movies as often as possible, listens to music every waking moment, reads every day and “plays” on the internet every chance she can. Some of her current favorite TV shows are Outlander, Sweet Magnolias, Wednesday, The Mandalorian, The Equalizer, Fire Country, Miss Scarlet, Hudson & Rex, SkyMed, The Rookie, Bridgerton, Cobra Kai, Virgin River, The Witcher, Leverage: Redemption and School Spirits. She is looking forward to the fall TV season, including the return of Outlander, Tracker and The Equalizer and the debuts of the new dramas Matlock, Murder In a Small Town, NCIS: Origins and Cross. Follow her at @ruebenrambling or contact her at rueben@nicegirlstv.com. Please also check out her Rueben's Ramblings website for even more entertainment news.