Photo by: Jimel Primm
Photo By: Jimel Primm
Jeremy Brockman is an Emmy award-winning cinematographer from Detroit.
Jeremy Brockman is an Emmy Award-Winning cinematographer from Detroit. With his work, Brockman seeks to create images that truthfully represent and inspire his community. As a versatile cinematographer, he has lensed a number of productions in dramatic narrative, documentary and branded content.
In 2018, Brockman was awarded a NATAS Michigan Regional EMMY Award for Education/Schools Category for the documentary short, LYRICIST SOCIETY and a second NATAS Michigan Regional EMMY Award nomination for the documentary short, MATRIX BOXING. In 2022, he was awarded the Kresge Arts in Detroit Gilda Award for Film Directing. He was selected as a Cinematography Fellow for the 2024 cohort of Film Independent’s Project Involve Artist Development Program.
Selected short narrative cinematography credits include MOSH (2025 Slamdance, 2025 Micheaux Film Festival), LITTLE CHURCH (2019 Detroit Filmmaker Awards Best Cinematography nomination), DERRICK (2022 Official Selection American Black Film Festival), OPEN CITY (2013 Mitten Movie Project Best Cinematography and Short Film awards).
Additional nonfiction credits include MAKING BLACK AMERICA, GOSPEL, WHITE HOT: THE RISE & FALL OF ABERCROMBIE & FITCH (Netflix), THE CON (S1, Ep 5, “The Royal Con”, ABC Television), AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: THE VOICE OF FREEDOM (television documentary for PBS) and camera operator for THROUGH THE FLAK: WAR STORIES OF THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN.
Other work includes branded content for LEXUS, T-Mobile and EBay.
In 2017, Brockman was a photojournalism fellow with Documenting Detroit where his photographic series, Faith in Action earned him national press recognition in The Atlantic Magazine’s CityLab , LensCulture Magazine and The Detroit Free Press.
Brockman is currently on a film festival run with his narrative directorial debut, THE CUT, which has been accepted to several film festivals including Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival.