Brent Huffman

Brent Huffman is a documentary filmmaker and associate professor at Northwestern University. His film about Mes Aynak, a complete visual record of the archaeologists’ work and findings, was released in 2015. He is currently producing Finding Yingying, a documentary about a Chinese visiting scholar kidnapped in Illinois in 2017, and directing Strands of Resistance, a documentary examining China's economic presence in Pakistan.

Trike Daily Society & Environment

How a Historic Buddhist Site Has Eluded Destruction—for Now

Plans to open-pit mine the ancient city of Mes Aynak in Afghanistan have been put on hold, but the site is still far from safe.

By Brent Huffman

Feb 06, 2020

Film Club

Saving Mes Aynak

By Brent Huffman

Feb 2020

Magazine Society & Environment

The Fate of Mes Aynak

An ancient Buddhist city is caught in a drawn-out battle between commerce and culture in Afghanistan

by Brent Huffman | photographs by Michal Przedlacki

Spring 2013

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