But he soon realized just how relevant the Browns' story still was.
Niles met the Brown siblings while working on his 2007 film, "Note By Note: The Making Of Steinway L1037." Although he knew parts of their story, he wasn’t sure “if there was enough in the present,” he said, for him to go ahead. The film also reveals how the siblings went from attempting to salvage their family relationships to privately filing charges against their father, as well as the aftermath of their private matters being made public following their parents’ car crash on Valentine’s Day, 2007 - four days after the filing. In the documentary, Desirae, Deondra, and Melody Brown speak about how they finally managed to confide in each other regarding their father's abuse. The footage shows the Brown children playing the piano both together and separately through their quick rise to fame after they were accepted into the Juilliard School - the first group of five siblings to all attend. The documentary includes Brown home videos, filmed and narrated by Keith Brown, the family’s father who is now serving time at the Utah State Prison for one count of sodomy on a child and two counts of sex abuse of a child. “It should be clear to anyone who watches the film how hard it can be to talk about this kind of stuff, but (those conversations) can be a little hope for anyone going through something that’s painful or traumatic,” he said. Those difficult conversations should involve both talking and listening, Gregory Brown told the Deseret News. “Everyone here knows someone (who has been affected by sexual abuse,) whether they know it or not,” Desirae Brown said during the Q&A session after the screening moderated by RadioWest’s Doug Fabrizio, referencing a statistic from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that estimates that about 1 in 6 boys and 1 in 4 girls are sexually abused before the age of 18. The Browns, the three sisters and their two brothers, Gregory and Ryan, hope this documentary starts hard conversations that many people need to have.
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