Brook Silva-Braga

His second film, One Day in Africa, was released in 2009. In 2011 his third film was released, The China Question. He is currently an on-air reporter for The Washington Post and freelances for CBS Newspath.

• Name — Brook Silva-Braga • Born — 27 March 1979 • Birthplace — Rhode Island • Known for — Documentary A Map for Saturday, award-winning associate producer for cable TV (HBO) • Occupation — cinematographer, director, producer • Employer — The Washington Post

Silva-Braga was born and raised in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and was a producer for HBO's Inside the NFL, for which he shared an Emmy Award.

The film is billed as "around the world in 90 minutes." Its title describes the feeling that, "On a trip around the world, every day feels like Saturday." When "everyday is Saturday, each new person an instant best friend," you need a guide to how to deal with "always saying goodbye, and loss of connection(s)." Silva-Braga stays in hostels around the world, showing us the "hot spots" of backpacking adventure—Australia, Southeast Asia, India, and London—and out-of-the-way places like Brazil, Nepal, and Thailand. He was forced to pack only five pounds of clothes, because of his 30 pounds of video equipment, and stay in many hostels to save money. He interviews various hostellers and fellow travellers along the way as he investigates how and why people take long-term, budget travel.

The documentary premiered at the 2007 Cleveland International Film Festival, where it was screened four times. This film fest is a competitive one, drawing 43,000 attendees, 950 submissions, but only 180 films screened in 250 showings; this film was screened 4 times rather than the average 1.38 times of the typical film at the festival. The Cleveland Film Society, organizers of the film festival, created a live podcast during a panel interview with him. The local affiliate of ABC interviewed him while he was in town for the film festival.

A Map for Saturday was screened in Paris, France, shortly after the camera Silva-Braga used to film it was stolen. The Hostelling International USA (HI-USA) is also screening the film at selected universities, colleges, and public libraries through its hostel councils. A Map for Saturday was screened on the MTV network's "True Life" series, episode 58.

Silva-Braga posted a series of blogs at Gadling.com, which is affiliated with AOL, as well as posting at TheInterviewPoint. On November 10, 2007, Silva-Braga was the keynote speaker at the national conference of Hostelling International USA in Washington, D.C.; HI-USA sponsored an essay-writing contest called "The Big Trip" to celebrate this event. In January 2009, he completed his next documentary, "One Day in Africa". In March 2023, he interviewed the "Godfather of artificial intelligence" Geoffrey Hinton at the Vector Institute in Canada for the CBS Saturday Morning Show.