Director of Photography/Producer Jim Frances
boasts over twenty years behind the lens.
He is a veteran news, magazine,
and documentary television photographer/
producer, and editor whose credits include
Sex Education in America:
AIDS and Adolescence (Public Television),
Living with AIDS: The Paul Cronan Story (WBZ & WGBH),
Apollo 13: To the Edge and Back (Nova), Shout Youngstown, and Boston's Irish Underground.
Jim has shot countless days of news and magazine footage for ABC (News, GMA and 20/20), NBC (News and Dateline), CBS (News and 60 Minutes), CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, and Fox. He has been the Director of Photography on a vast array of corporate and commercial productions for Accenture, Oracle, Apple Computer, Axelrod Political Associates, IBM, GlaxoSmithKline, and many other companies.
His documentary career started when he served as a production assistant for Union Maids, which was an Oscar nominee, and as technical consultant for Defending Our Lives, which won an Oscar. His professional honors include a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award as well as a Boston Press Photographers Assocation Award.