Tim Shephard
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Film & Entertainment — Creative Direction

Tim Shephard Directed
by
Experience.

// Feature Film  •  Global Broadcast  •  National Campaigns
4BOlympic Viewers
$40MFeature Film
160K+Campaign Airings
Roll film
Feature FilmBroadcast ProductionGlobal CampaignsCreative DirectionVisual StorytellingAthens 2004Apocalypto160K+ Airings Feature FilmBroadcast ProductionGlobal CampaignsCreative DirectionVisual StorytellingAthens 2004Apocalypto160K+ Airings
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The Reel

Campaign work, brand films, and highlights spanning nonprofit, federal, and entertainment verticals. From brief to final cut.

Highlight Reel 01 YouTube
Highlight Reel 02 YouTube
Campaign Film 01 Vimeo
Campaign Film 02 Vimeo
Highlight Reel 03 YouTube
Highlight Reel 04 YouTube
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The Record

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// PROD-001 — Global Broadcast
Athens Olympics 2004
Camera Crew — Live Events
BroadcastLive EventsInternational4B Viewers

Camera crew member for the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics broadcast — one of the most watched events in television history. Managed audio across multiple simultaneous live events, coordinating with international broadcast teams under zero-failure, no-second-take conditions.

This is what high-stakes production looks like in practice: no retakes, no safety nets, no margin for creative indecision. Every shot counts. The same discipline drives every campaign I lead.

4B
Global Viewers
200+
Nations Broadcast
0
Takes to Get It Right
// PROD-002 — Feature Film
Apocalypto
Icon Productions — Dir. Mel Gibson
Feature Film$40M BudgetIcon ProductionsHollywood

Worked in-office at Icon Productions during production of Mel Gibson's Apocalypto — a $40M epic feature film. Front-row seat to high-budget, high-pressure creative decision-making at the executive and director level.

The creative standards, production discipline, and storytelling rigor of major feature film production don't stay in the building — they become the benchmark for everything after it. I brought those standards into every campaign, every brand, every creative brief.

$40M
Production Budget
Icon
Productions
Dir.
Mel Gibson
// PROD-003 — National Campaign
National PSA — 160K Airings
Keep America Beautiful — All 50 States
National TV50 StatesPSAMedia Value $77.5M

Creative directed a national PSA campaign that aired over 160,000 times across all 50 states — equivalent in production scale, distribution complexity, and creative discipline to a major entertainment marketing push.

From creative brief through final cut through national distribution: every decision made under the same pressure as broadcast production. The result: $77.5M in earned media value, 745M+ impressions, and measurable behavior change at national scale.

160K+
Airings
$77.5M
Media Value
745M+
Impressions
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The Credits

Frame 01 — Production
Live Broadcast

Zero-failure live event production. Multi-camera coordination. Real-time creative decision-making under global audience pressure.

Frame 02 — Narrative
Visual Storytelling

Feature film production exposure. Understanding of how story structure, pacing, and visual language drive audience response at scale.

Frame 03 — Direction
Creative Leadership

15+ years directing creative teams across six verticals. From brief to final cut — with the production fluency to make it happen on time.

Frame 04 — Scale
National Distribution

Campaigns at broadcast scale: 160K+ TV airings, all 50 states, 745M impressions. Entertainment-grade reach, nonprofit creative budgets.

Frame 05 — Brand
Brand for Audience

Entertainment brands live or die on cultural resonance. I build brand systems that audiences feel — not just messaging they see.

Frame 06 — Awards
NAGC First Place

National Association of Government Communicators. First Place + Blue Pencil Award of Excellence for creative work under federal contract.

Scene 04

Director’s Cut

Five career stops. One timeline. Scrub through the reel.

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IC-CS Group
Creative Director — 2015–Present
Fractional CD across six verticals. The through-line: Implementation Science applied to brand — closing the gap between what organizations build and what audiences believe.
01:00:00:00
Role
Impact
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The Method

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Production Discipline

Feature film and live broadcast set the standard: every creative decision is final. No retakes in the real world. I bring that discipline to brand work — make it right before it ships.

II
Audience First

Entertainment lives or dies on how it makes audiences feel. Brand creative is no different. I design for the emotional response first, then reverse-engineer the execution to deliver it consistently.

III
Scale Without Dilution

160,000 airings of the same creative. 4 billion people watching the same broadcast. The best creative holds at any scale — because it was built around a truth, not a trend.

That’s a wrap — on background. Now let’s talk.

Ready to Roll? Lights.
Camera.
Brief.

You need a Creative Director who understands production reality, audience psychology, and brand discipline at entertainment scale. That’s what I bring.

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