American documentary filmmaker who is a professor at Wright State University. Jim Klein has been an independent filmmaker since 1969. He has been active in the American independent film community ever since. Along with his partner, Julia Reichert, he made the first documentary about women from a feminist perspective, GROWING UP FEMALE; one of the first oral history films, the Oscar®-nominated UNION MAIDS; the first film to challenge government policies on heroin addiction, METHADONE: AN AMERICAN WAY OF DEALING; and the first documentary film on American Communists, SEEING RED, which brought their second Academy Award nomination. His first solo film, LETTER TO THE NEXT GENERATION, was released in May 1990 and premiered on the PBS series, "P.O.V." Jim completed a new work, TAKEN FOR A RIDE, co-made with Martha Olson, in 1996. A look at General Motors' role, over a fifty-year span, in destroying public transportation and pushing freeways into the very center of cities, the film premiered on PBS. Most recent films as film editor include THE DREAM CATCHER (1999), SCOUT'S HONOR and THIS TRAIN (both 2001), THE NIGHTOWLS OF COVENTRY and WELCOME TO WARREN (both 2004), A LION IN THE HOUSE and KNOCKING (both 2006), and THE SPEED OF LIFE (2007).

Nominated for Documentary (Features) 1977: UNION MAIDS - Producer (w. Julia Reichert & Miles Mogulescu)  Nominated for Documentary (Features) 1983: SEEING RED: STORIES OF AMERICAN COMMUNISTS - Producer (w. Julia Reichert) 2 nominations