Michael James Brown
A Salt Lake City native, director Michael James Brown is one of the filmmakers behind a slew of award-winning films from Sweetgrass Productions including Valhalla, Afterglow and Darklight (Mountainfilm 2016), among many others. Working to push boundaries in storytelling and cinematography, he captures stories around the world through documentary and adventure filmmaking. Brown is the director of The Farmer (Mountainfilm 2022), a short film that follows Wasatch mountains’ local legend David Van Dame’s life spent harvesting one of the most precious crops on earth: powder.