Director

Bruce Broder

1 films

Bruce Broder is a documentary filmmaker living in Washington DC. His first film, Chops, followed a Florida high school jazz band’s quest to get to New York and compete in the highest-level jazz band competition in the country. Chops premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York and was distributed by Virgil Films. It won Best Documentary at three Film Festivals and was selected for presentation by the International Documentary Association. Prior to filmmaking, Broder wrote, produced, and directed commercials—taking a special interest in music tracks--for advertising agencies in Detroit, Baltimore, and Jacksonville, FL. He also headed the creative departments of those agencies and was President of two of them.