Jim Brown
Biography
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.
As Director
Free to Rock
2017
The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time
1982
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
2007
Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives
2019
Billy Joel: A Matter of Trust - The Bridge to Russia
2014
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
1984
Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
2004
Mostly Sondheim
2003
The Highwaymen: Friends Till the End
2016
Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
2019