Jim's profile
Jim Doran is an interdisciplinary artist and award-winning director whose work combines visual art, animation, experimental film, music composition, sound design, web-based art, and computer programming. He holds a BA in music composition from Washington College and an MFA in studio art from Towson University.
His films have screened at the Maryland Film Festival and Artscape, as well as internationally in Portugal, Canada, and the UK. His films have received Best Animation awards at Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival, the MAC Film Festival, and Italy’s Hermetic International Film Festival.
Jim has received an Independent Artist Award and a Creativity Grant from the Maryland State Arts Council and is a 2026–2027 Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund fellow. His work has been exhibited twice at the American Visionary Art Museum, in The Art of Storytelling and The Great Mystery Show.
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