He was also an editor of Julia Reichert's and Steven Bognar's Primetime Emmy winning PBS 4-hour documentary series A Lion in the House about children battling cancer. This film, which aired in June 2006 on PBS, won Best Documentary Prize at the Nashville Film Festival and Special Jury Prizes at both the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and the Cleveland International Film Festival along with receiving rave reviews from critics.

Brent Huffman is also a professor at the Medill School of Journalism
at Northwestern University where he teaches documentary and broadcast production and theory.

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Huffman has also produced documentaries for The Discovery Channel and The National Geographic Channel.

He has been making social issue documentaries and environmental films for over ten years in Ohio, California, Afghanistan, China, and Puerto Rico. These films have gone on to win numerous awards including a Primetime Emmy, two Cine Golden Eagle Awards, a College Emmy, a Student Academy Award, and a Grand Jury Award at AFI’s SILVERDOCS 2004 in Washington D.C.

Huffman was a former student of the documentary program at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley under Academy Award winning director Jon Else.   Before that he worked closely with documentary filmmakers Julia Reichert, Jim Klein, and Steven Bognar responsible for the Academy Award nominated films Seeing Red and Union Maids.