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Jim Brown
New York City, New York, USA
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…
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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.
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2022
A Royal Grand Design
Movie Director
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2019
Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives
Movie Director
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2019
Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
Movie Director
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2017
Free to Rock
Movie Director
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2016
The Highwaymen: Friends Till the End
Movie Director
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2014
Billy Joel: A Matter of Trust - The Bridge to Russia
Movie Director
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2007
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Movie Producer
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2004
Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
Movie Director
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2004
Peter, Paul & Mary: Carry It On
Movie Director
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2003
Mostly Sondheim
Movie Director
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1994
The Singing Kettle: World Tour
Movie Director
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1991
Appalachian Journey
Movie Cinematography
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1990
American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America
TV show Director of Photography
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1989
In the Hank Williams Tradition
Movie Director
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1989
We Shall Overcome
Movie Director
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1988
A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly
Movie Director
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1984
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
Movie Director
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1982
The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time
Movie Director
