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.
KNOWN FOR
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
1984
American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America
1990
Appalachian Journey
1991
Mostly Sondheim
2003
In the Hank Williams Tradition
1989
Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives
2019
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
2007
A Royal Grand Design
2022
Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
2019
Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
2004
The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time
1982
A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly
1988
FILMOGRAPHY
All
Movies
TV
Directing
16
Writing
1
Producing
5
Camera
2
Crew
2