Jim Brown (director)

Jim Brown
Born	June 7, 1950 (1950-06-07) (age 61) New York

James Bradford Brown (born June 7, 1950) is an American film director, primarily known for his work in documentary film. He has won four Emmys, most recently for Pete Seeger: The Power of Song. He has directed and produced four feature documentaries that received theatrical distribution.^[1] He heads Jim Brown Productions, LLC and Ginger Group Productions, Inc., production companies specializing in cultural and social documentaries and concerts.^[2]

He studied film at Tisch School of the Arts, and today is an Associate Professor at New York University's Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at Tisch School of the Arts.^[3]

Brown has also produced and directed works for television, most notably Peter, Paul and Mary: Carry it On- A Musical Legacy; American Roots Music, a four-part series that aired on PBS; Songs of the Civil War (documentary), a PBS special co-produced by Ken Burns; In the Hank Williams Tradition, a musical tribute co-produced by the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum; and A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly (documentary), a Showtime and PBS special. He has also directed and produced shows for the Travel Channel and Sesame Street.

1 List of work
- 1.1 Television
- 1.2 Feature Films
2 Emmy Awards
3 References
4 External links

List of work

Television

Luxury Yachts (Travel Channel) (2007)
American Roots Music: Chicago (2006)
Great American Lake Homes (Travel Channel) (2005)
Great American Ranches (Travel Channel) (2005)
Outrageous Beach Homes (Travel Channel) (2005)
Fantastic Houseboats (Travel Channel) (2004)
Super Yachts (Travel Channel) (2004)
Outrageous Trucks (Travel Channel) (2004)
Luxurious Log Homes (Travel Channel) (2004)
Peter, Paul and Mary: Carry It On – A Musical Legacy (2004)
The Three Pickers (2003)
American Roots Music: A Portrait of Ann and Marc Savoy (2004)
American Roots Music (2001)
An Evening with Harry Belafonte and Friends (1998)
In The Spotlight: Mary Chapin Carpenter at Wolf Trap (1995)
Child of Mine (1994)
Sesame Street: Big Bird Postcards (1993)
Songs of the Civil War (1991)
Pete Seeger's Family Concert (1991)
We Shall Overcome (documentary) (1990)
Sesame Street: Cuban American Segments (1990)
A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly (documentary) (1988)
Sesame Street: The Navajo Segments (1989)
In the Hank Williams Tradition (1989)
We Shall Overcome (documentary) (1988)
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin' (1984)

Feature Films

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song (2007)
Isn't This a Time! (2006)
A Musical Passage (1984)
'The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time! (1981)

Emmy Awards

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song in 2008 for outstanding non-fiction series
Sesame Street: The Navajo Segments in 1991 for best children's series
We Shall Overcome (documentary) in 1989 for documentary
The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time! in 1984 for directing

References

^ "Jim Brown (II)". [1]. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0113845/. Retrieved 2010-03-15.
^ "Online Press Room". [2]. http://www.thirteen.org/pressroom/release.php?get=2818. Retrieved 2010-03-14.
^ "Faculty Directory Kanbar Institute of Film & Television". [3]. http://filmtv.tisch.nyu.edu/object/BrownJ.html. Retrieved 2010-03-15.

External links

Jim Brown's website
Jim Brown at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Brown, Jim
Alternative names
Short description	American film/documentary director
Date of birth	June 7, 1950
Place of birth	New York
Date of death
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