Chris Shepherd

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Not to be confused with Chris Shephard.

Chris Shepherd
Shepherd in December 2014
Born (1967-12-11) 11 December 1967 (age 56)
Anfield, Liverpool, England
Occupation(s)Director, writer, producer
AwardsWinner of a British Independent Film Award and five British Animation Awards
Websitechrisshepherdfilms.com

Chris Shepherd (born 11 December 1967) is a double

BAFTA nominated television/film writer and director. Born in Anfield
, Liverpool, Lancashire, in 1967. He is mainly known for combining live action with animation. His work fuses comedy with commentary on the darker side of human nature.

Early years

Shepherd's first animation was made in 1989 and it was called Safari. He wanted to make a drama but didn't know any actors, so he made his cast out of

stare-out championship for BBC comedy sketch show Big Train
.

As well as being the producer on the

Brian Wood, on his Channel 4
film School Disco and "Bunny Schendler" on her BAFTA nominated "World of Interiors".

Slinky

In 2000 Shepherd set up

BAFTA nomination. He directed and co-wrote a spoof general election series with Peter Holmes called People's Britain for Channel 4
in 2001.

Other credits include animation on Channel 4 sitcom

London Film Festival
.

It was during this period that Shepherd wrote several feature films including: Up in Heaven, Directed by Shepherd, produced by

Big Talk Productions; and 50% Off, directed by Shepherd from an idea by him and David Shrigley for Warp Films
. After being caught for five years in the development of Up in Heaven, he vowed to make as many films as he could, regardless of length. There's still a lot of speculation about the progress of his feature film projects which, according to several websites, are still in development.

His last Slinky film, Bad Night for the Blues, won the International Canal+ Award at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and was transmitted on BBC HD on 27 February 2011. This is the first film in which Shepherd adopted an autobiographical approach without hiding characters involved.

Post Slinky and Random Acts 2011 to 2016

Shepherd's first work after Slinky was a pop promo, Falling into Pieces, for Black Casino and the Ghost. From 2011 saw Shepherd being a guest curator on

Fred Deakin. As well as curating and producing sixty films for the strand he's also directed two. A recreation of a childhood visits to the dentist called "Drillerfiller" and a pop promo for protest singer Grace Petrie
called "Grace Petrie: Rise". Both look at Shepherd's childhood landscape, the first as a memory and the second as a documentary. "Rise" was shot in Anfield in Liverpool just as Shepherd's childhood neighbourhood was being demolished. The film was later included in 2012's Anfield Home Tours as part of the 2up2down project. He also produced a documentary project with Tim Brunsden called Home Sweet Home which documented events after a major fire at Shepherd's family home.

In 2013 Shepherd wrote and directed a new film called

Reverend and The Makers , Lambchop members new electronic band HeCTA and The Wave Pictures
.

2016 saw Shepherd return with another director/writer project for Arte called Johnno's Dead a loose sequel to his 2003 classic Dad's Dead.[2] This sequel is set thirteen years after the original was set and starts the same cast. The film has played many international festivals such as Annecy, Clermont Ferrand, Tampere and the film picked up Best British Short Film at the London International Animation Festival held in the Barbican in London.[3]

Joe Orton

In 2017 Shepherd embarked upon a Joe Orton tribute project to mark the 50th anniversary of the passing of the playwright. The project was masterminded by Shepherd with Doctor Emma Parker from the University of Leicester. It centres around Orton's Edna Welthorpe letters. Orton wrote prank letters of complaint to poke fun at establishment figures such as vicars, companies and sometimes even his own plays. The project funded by the Arts Council England and the University of Leicester has seen many comedy writers such as Alec Baldwin, David Quantick, Caroline Moran, Phil Bowker, Arthur Mathews, Jesse Armstrong write new Edna Welthorpe letters. These letters are to be read in two events. The first in Latitude with readings by Robin Ince, John-Luke Roberts and Joe Orton's sister Leonine Orton Barnet. The second is at the Little Theatre in Orton's hometown on the anniversary of Orton's death on 9 August 2017. With readings by Leonie Orton, Frances Barber, David Quantick and John Shuttleworth. In addition Shepherd has directed a short animated film called Yours Faithfully Edna Welthorpe (Mrs) which features the voices of Alison Steadman and Robin Sebastian.[4][5]

2010's Filmwork

Shepherd directed a short film for Arte France with regular collaborators Autour De Minuit called Brexicuted which premiered in Edinburgh Film Festival on 27 June 2018.[6] and a feature film which he is attached to direct written by David Quantick.[7] In 2020 he created animations for Sara Pascoe's sitcom with illustrator Stephen Collins for BBC 2 called Out Of Her Mind.

Anfield Road Graphic Novel

It was announced that Chris's debut graphic novel would be released through Titan Comics on the 10th September 2024. The 272 page fictional book is both written and artwork by Chris. Described as a graphic novel “full of heart, soul and wit” by screenwriter and producer

Anfield Road
depicts a beautiful coming of age story centered around growing up in the working-class dynamics of Merseyside in the late 1980s. 

[8]

Filmography

2023
BC Camplight
-The Last Rotation Of Earth		 director lyric video
2020 Out Of Her Mind Animator
2019 Reverend and the Makers-Elastic Fantastic director and writer
2018 Brexicuted directed and writer Winner Best Animated Film UK Film Review Awards 2018, Winner Mock Award Rising Of Lusitania AnimaDoc Festival 2020.
2017 Yours Faithfully Edna Welthorpe (Mrs) directed and adapted from Joe Orton Winner Wildcard Award Saboteur Awards 2017
2016 Johnno's Dead director and writer Winner Best British Short London Int Animation Festival 2017
2016 The Wave Pictures-Pool Hall director and writer
2016 The Wave Pictures-The Running Man director and writer
2015 Reverend and the Makers – Making Babies from Mirrors co-animation director with Joice Jurtiz and writer
2015 HeCTA featuring Kurt Wagner – Sympathy for the Auto Industry co-director with Jez Pennington and writer
2015 HeCTA featuring Kurt Wagner and Buddy Hackett – The Concept director and writer
2014 Holly Johnson – In And Out of Love director and writer
2013 Comedy Blaps: The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society Presents a Board Meeting director
2013
The Ringer
 director and writer WinnerPublic Choice Award Nice Int Film Festival 2014, Winner Filmmaker Grand Prix Sapporo Short Film Festival 2014
2013 Life Class director and writer
2013 Shameless – episode 10.2 animator
2013 Anatole's Island co-director with Amer Nazri
2012 Home Sweet Home (documentary) producer (directed by Tim Brunsden)
2012 Grace Petrie – Rise co director and writer with Rod Main
2012 Drillerfiller director and writer
2011 Black Casino and the Ghost – Falling into Pieces director and writer
2010 Bad Night for the Blues director and writer Winner Canal+ Award Clermont Ferrand Int Film Fest 2011
2010 Count Arthur Strong's Entertainment Game (TV pilot) animation
2010 The Klang Show animation
2007 Granny director and writer
2006 Silence is Golden director and writer Winner TCM Film Award, BFI London Film Festival 2007
2005
Who I Am And What I Want
 co-director and co-writer with David Shrigley Nominated Best British Short at British Independent Film Awards 2006. Winner Public Choice Award British Animation Award 2006, Tiger Award Rotterdam In Film Festival 2006
2005 Nathan Barley animation and graphics
2005 Only Human: Bollocks to Cancer animation
2003 Dad's Dead director and writer Nominated Best Animated Film
BAFTA Film Awards 2003, Winner Best Short Film at British Independent Film Awards
2004, Winner 2 British Animation Awards 2004
2001 People's Britain director and co-writer with Peter Holmes Winner Best Comedy Series British Animation Awards 2002
2001 The World of Interiors producer Nominated Best Animated Films
BAFTA
Film Awards 2002
2000 Pop Skool director
2000 Angry Kid Episode: "Backward Writing" co-writer with Darren Walsh
1999 School Disco producer
1998 Big Train (Series 1) animation Winner Best Broken Comedy British Comedy Awards 1999
1997 The Broken Jaw director and writer
1995 Abductees production manager
1992 A Load of Balls director and writer
1989 Safari director and writer

References

  1. ^ "Im sad to say my father has died". Chris Shepherd Films. 21 September 2018. Retrieved 25 September 2018.
  2. ^ http://johnnosdead.com}[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "LIAF 2016: And the winner is..." LIAF. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
  4. ^ "Chris Shepherd directs film inspired by playwright Joe Orton". Middlesex University. 14 June 2017.
  5. ^ "Middlesex University (Via Public) / Chris Shepherd directs animated film inspired by playwright Joe Orton". Archived from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  6. ^ "What's next for Lady Macbeth and God's Own Country agency Creative England?". Screen Daily. 20 September 2017.
  7. ^ "McLaren Award fir animation". Edinburgh Film Festival. 27 June 2018.[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ "Exclusive: Writer, artist, and filmmaker Chris Shepherd's debut graphic novel, "Anfield Road" launches from Titan in September". 5 April 2024.

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