Jim Cliffe

Jim Cliffe is an award-winning writer, director and artist, with a professional background in illustration and animation. His first feature, Donovan's Echo, was released in 2012.

Cliffe was born in British Columbia, Canada. He showed strong artistic skills at an early age, and developed his first newspaper published comic strip with his brother Jason at the age of 11. As a kid, Jim's love of movies were often a creative driving force with his art. He also experimented with animation, and made video shorts with his friends, mimicking stunts and sequences from some of his favorite movies.

Professionally, Jim's career has primarily been in the arts - illustration, design and animation - as the idea of becoming a movie director didn’t really seem like a tangible goal to him.

In 2005, Jim's first professional short film noir Tomorrow's Memoir gained attention after winning 'Best Comics-Oriented Film' at the San Diego Comic-Con. At 27-minutes in length, Tomorrow's Memoir screened at several festivals, and would also go on to become an online hit within the comic community following its launch on the now retired ifilm. The short film also garnered rave reviews from Film Threat, DC Comics, Moviehole, and others.

In 2007, Jim's first feature-length screenplay, 'Donovan’s Echo' (co-written by Cliffe and his wife Melodie Krieger) won the Bronze Award in the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards and made quarter-finalist in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting.

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