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.
Selected short narrative cinematography credits include DERRICK (2022 Official Selection American Black Film Festival, 2022 Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival), LITTLE CHURCH (2019 Detroit Filmmaker Awards Best Cinematography nomination), INTROSPECTIVE (2014 Cinetopia International Film Festival Short Film award, Detroit Voices Competition), OPEN CITY (2013 Mitten Movie Project Best Cinematography and Short Film awards).
Additional nonfiction credits include 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, Go Daddy and VICE.
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 a Cinematography Fellow for the 2024 cohort of Film Independent’s Project Involve Artist Development Program.