Biography

A native of Omaha, Nebraska, Jim Fields is a lifelong film enthusiast and self-taught independent filmmaker. Fields worked for many years as a professional musician and college English instructor before getting involved in independent film. Fields' early movies are documentaries, including the award-winning 416 (2004) (Best Feature and Audience Award Winner, 2005 Central Nebraska Film Festival, Best Documentary, 2004 Hardacre Film Festival, and Second Place Documentary Winner, 2005 Fargo Film Festival), which is about Nebraska' amendment 416, one of the earliest bans of same sex marriage to be put in a state constitution and the efforts to overturn it. Additional documentaries include Preserve Me a Seat (2006), which is about the efforts to save classic movie theaters throughout America, and Bugeaters (2011) (Best Documentary, 2011 Estes Park Film Festival), which is about the first decade of Nebraska football. Fields' first feature film, Flyover Country (2013), was released to positive reviews in 2014. His latest indie feature film is a comedy about gay divorce called, Life After Ex (2017).
- IMDb mini biography by: Alvy Singer