Jim Brown
Jim Brown is a four-time Emmy Award winning American director/producer known primarily for his work in musical documentaries. He heads Jim Brown Productions, LLC and Ginger Group Productions, Inc. He specializes in social, cultural and musical documentaries with an emphasis on how the power of music can create change. He has one of the largest archives of American folk and roots music from the last 4 decades of his life's work.
Brown is a recently retired professor at New York University's Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at Tisch School of the Arts. He taught at New York University for 35+years.
He is a member of the Directors Guild of America and a retired member of the International Cinematographers Guild.
Brown is also an avid hiker, skier and loves gardening, filmmaking and photography.
Filme (17)
A Royal Grand Design
2022 · Director, Writer
Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives
2019 · Director, Producer
Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
2019 · Director
Free to Rock
2017 · Director
The Highwaymen: Friends Till the End
2016 · Director
Billy Joel: A Matter of Trust - The Bridge to Russia
2014 · Director
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
2007 · Producer, Director
Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
2004 · Director, Producer
Peter, Paul & Mary: Carry It On
2004 · Director
Mostly Sondheim
2003 · Producer, Director
The Singing Kettle: World Tour
1994 · Director
Appalachian Journey
1991 · Cinematography
In the Hank Williams Tradition
1989 · Director
We Shall Overcome
1989 · Director, Director of Photography
A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly
1988 · Director, Producer, Cinematography
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
1984 · Director
The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time
1982 · Director
