Jim Shields(X)
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
After 32 years running a successful independent film production company, he's learned a thing or two about what makes people tick. More recently he's applied the dynamics of film and storytelling to the problem of behavioural change in companies all over the world.
A passion for comedy filmmaking started as a teenager when he discovered that he could combine the images he was drawing (pastels and dirt mainly) with sounds he'd captured in jars. A need to finance his fondness for wine slushies led to creating short comedies for the "interweb" helping companies all over the world achieve notoriety (and sales) despite their crushingly dull products and services.
Jim tries to spread the word at every opportunity that we, the people, have the means of production at our fingertips. We no longer need a mill owner to employ us - we can make things on our own out of zeros and ones.
He has written two books (one bestseller) about the relationship between creative individuals and the companies for whom they work.
Jim also likes to sing Karaoke when away from home of course, and continues his search for Arne Saknussemm's map to the centre of the earth, to prove his point that chocolate and gravity are, in effect, the same thing.
He has a lot to say about handling clients, and when to take the idea off the table. The key is education - make sure you have a logical, robust process that solves problems and you'll always be able to defend your creative decisions. In fact - he'd go one further than that, and encourage you to develop a cause. A crusade against the mediocre. Join him. If only because he looks a little silly in that ridiculous helmet all on his own.
A passion for comedy filmmaking started as a teenager when he discovered that he could combine the images he was drawing (pastels and dirt mainly) with sounds he'd captured in jars. A need to finance his fondness for wine slushies led to creating short comedies for the "interweb" helping companies all over the world achieve notoriety (and sales) despite their crushingly dull products and services.
Jim tries to spread the word at every opportunity that we, the people, have the means of production at our fingertips. We no longer need a mill owner to employ us - we can make things on our own out of zeros and ones.
He has written two books (one bestseller) about the relationship between creative individuals and the companies for whom they work.
Jim also likes to sing Karaoke when away from home of course, and continues his search for Arne Saknussemm's map to the centre of the earth, to prove his point that chocolate and gravity are, in effect, the same thing.
He has a lot to say about handling clients, and when to take the idea off the table. The key is education - make sure you have a logical, robust process that solves problems and you'll always be able to defend your creative decisions. In fact - he'd go one further than that, and encourage you to develop a cause. A crusade against the mediocre. Join him. If only because he looks a little silly in that ridiculous helmet all on his own.
