JIM GOODALL – BIO
February 11, 2009
Jim Goodall is 33 years old and lives in Toronto, Canada. A graduate of York University’s film and video production program, Jim has been working since 2003 as a writer, director and production designer. Most recently Jim completed production designing a feature film called SUCK, which stars Malcolm McDowell, Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, Moby and Henry Rollins. In 2007 Jim won the PITCH THIS! Award at the Toronto International Film Festival for a feature film script called GIANTLAND. Jim also wrote and directed an award winning live action/CGI animated short film called The Interior Monologue Of Gill The Goldfish which premiered at the 2007 Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films and aired on City TV and the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC). That same year Jim designed the Genie nominated short drama, The Answer Key. In 2005 Jim guest directed and production designed a series for the CBC entitled What It’s Like Being Alone with producers Brad Peyton and Fred Fuchs. In 2004 Jim co-directed and co-produced his first animated project entitled Buck’s Big Bang which screened at the 2005 World Wide Short Film Festival in Toronto. In 2003 he made a short film and developed a TV series for YTV called Mr. Ramsbottom which launched his professional career as a writer/director and production designer. Before that, Jim traveled the international film festival circuit with a live action student film entitled In Timbuktu (2001), and a live action comedy called Heroes (1999) which earned him the “Best of Craft Award for Writing” at TV Ontario’s Student Telefest Awards. Currently Jim is developing a number of TV and feature film projects and getting set to direct his first feature film with the Canadian Film Center’s Feature Film Program.
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“The Answer Key” Nominated for a Genie!
February 11, 2009
The nominees for The 29th Annual Genie Awards were announced today by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television (ACCT). “The Answer Key”, a film I production designed in 2007 was nominated in the catagory for BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT DRAMA. The 2009 Genie Awards will take place Saturday, April 4th at the Canada Aviation Museum in Ottawa, Ontario and will be broadcast on Global Television.
