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 filmmaker from Detroit. Having lensed a number of productions in dramatic narrative, documentary and branded content, he seeks to create images that truthfully represent and inspire his community.
In 2018, Brockman was awarded a NATAS Michigan Regional EMMY Award 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.
Brockman was also 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.
Selected narrative cinematography credits include A MIRROR OF DECEPTION (2025 Detroit Filmmaker Awards Best Cinematography nomination), 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 …AND DAMN HE COULD PLAY, WHITE HOT: THE RISE & FALL OF ABERCROMBIE & FITCH, THE GREAT MIGRATION, THE CON (S1, Ep 5, “The Royal Con”), AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: THE VOICE OF FREEDOM and camera operator for THROUGH THE FLAK: WAR STORIES OF THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN.
Other work includes branded content for LEXUS, T-Mobile and EBay.
His directorial work explores the emotional and mental lives of Black men. Coming from an environment that often penalized Black men for full self-expression, his films create a space where complexity can exist without explanation or defense. He aims to show the fullness of their humanity, allowing it to unfold on its own terms rather than in response to expectation or stereotype.
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 and Baltimore Black International Film Festival where it won Best Narrative Short.