Jackie Sheppard

Jackie Sheppard

Jackie Sheppard

Producer

Following collaboration with Mark Blaney and Footprint Films on projects in development over several years Jackie joined Footprint as Joint Managing Director of the company in June 2004. At Footprint, Jackie has produced the feature films Africa United and Escape from Pretoria.

She has also produced the funded shorts, Home (Reel Issues Films), Curfew (Screen South/UKFC), and Supraman and the School of Necessity (The Doorpost) with Mark Blaney. They also produced, with Kae Bahar, the multi award-winning (60+ to date) short film I Am Sami, filmed in Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) and A Special Guest.

Together they Exec Produced four short films for the UKFC/Screen South’s Digital Shorts programme.

Away from Footprint Jackie produced the short films Unscripted, Derelict, Rahab, The Black Scholes Conspiracy, The Light, Pulsar, the BAFTA Cymru nominated Only Child, The Widow’s Last, Leash, Bingo and White Gold (all for Reel Issues Films), as part of Footprint’s consultancy for The Pitch film fund (www.enterthepitch.com). She also Executive Produced Alex Marx’s Fingers.