Chris Shepherd

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Chris Shepherd (b. 1966) is a Liverpool, England born television/film writer and director. He is mainly known for combining live action with animation. His work fuses comedy with commentary on the darker side of human nature.

His writer and directorial debut came with a Channel 4 film called The Broken Jaw. The animated short, made in 1997, illustrated the plight of a public house after it's been transformed into a fun pub. During the same year he animated the world stare-out championship for BBC comedy sketch show Big Train.

He directed and co-wrote a spoof general election series with Peter Holmes called People's Britain for Channel 4 in 2001. As producer he worked with Cramp Twins creator, Brian Wood, on his Channel 4 film School Disco.

His 2003 animate! commission, Dad's Dead, featured Ian Hart as its narrator. The film ground breakingly combined animation with live action in a unique style which led the film to win 25 international awards including Best Short Film at the British Independent Film Awards and BAFTA nomination.

More recent credits include animation on Channel 4 sit com Nathan Barley and Channel 4 documentary Bollocks To Cancer. 2005 saw him co-write and co-direct with artist David Shrigley on a second animate! commission called Who I Am And What I Want. His most recent film Silence Is Golden won the TCM Classic Shorts Award at the 2006 London Film Festival.

[edit] Filmography

Year	Title	Notes
2006	Silence Is Golden	director and writer
2005	Who I Am And What I Want	co-director and co-writer with David Shrigley
2005	Nathan Barley	animation and graphics
2005	Only Human: Bollocks to Cancer	animation
2003	Dad's Dead	director and writer
2001	People's Britain	director and co-writer with Peter Holmes
2000	Pop Skool	director
2000	Angry Kid Episode: "Backward Writing"	co-writer with Darren Walsh
1998	Big Train (Series 1)	animation
1997	The Broken Jaw	director and writer
1995	Abductees	production manager
1992	A Load Of Balls	director and writer
1989	Safari	director and writer