Jim Hoppin

Jim is an award-winning filmmaker whose work has appeared on PBS, Animal Planet, Discovery Kids as well as at South By Southwest, Aspen Shortsfest and other film festivals around the world. Most recently, Jim produced several PBS specials promoting the work of Ken Burns, Henry Louis Gates Jr. as well programs like All Creatures Great & Small, Endeavour, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light plus others. Jim has worked on dozens of PBS fundraising documentaries over the past 20 years including The Brain Fitness Program series, Ken Burns: America's Storyteller, Science Trek and many others. Jim's undergraduate degree is in film/video from Northwestern University and he holds a masters in education from Brooklyn College.