About

Brett Ingram is the director of two documentary features, Monster Road and Rocaterrania, and twenty short films. His work as a writer and director has screened on Sundance Channel, PBS, National Geographic, Animal Planet, and at hundreds of film festivals, universities, museums, and cinemas around the world.

He is the author of The Secret World of Renaldo Kuhler, named one of the 15 most beautiful art books of 2017 by ARTNET. His articles and essays on film, animation, visual art, and media education have appeared in international journals. He is also a self-taught visual artist, having exhibited multi-media works at the North Carolina Museum of Art, McColl Center, Cameron Art Museum, and other regional museums.

A Guggenheim fellow in Creative Arts (2007) and North Carolina Arts Council fellow in Visual Art (1996) and Filmmaking (2003), Ingram began experimenting with assemblage art during Covid-19 quarantine. His first solo exhibition opened in January 2026 at the Center for Visual Arts Gallery in Greensboro, NC.

In the late 1980s and early 90s, he worked briefly as an electrical engineer on the Space Shuttle Main Engine Program, a photojournalist for a small town newspaper, and a high school physics teacher. He made his first documentary film in 1990, went to film school, and began a lifelong creative journey.