Jim Elderton
- Sound Department
- Editor
- Editorial Department
Jim has worked in England, Hollywood, Europe, Canada and New Zealand.
He cut his film teeth with the BBC at the famous Ealing Studios on the
first season of Dr. Who. There he also assisted with the Ken Russell
documentaries on the BBC's signature arts programme Monitor.
He left the BBC to become an editor, and edited his first feature movie. Also TV commercials for JWT and McCann Erickson, and PR documentaries for Esso, Beecham's and Olympus. He then returned to the BBC as a freelance drama editor and documentary director. His feature editing credits are: Loving Feeling, Terror, Spaced Out, and Horror Planet.
For Zoetrope UK he edited music videos for U2, Stray Cats and April Wine, and edited feature length videos: Police Round The World; Urgh! a Music War; and Men Without Women with Steven Van Zandt (ex the Bruce Springsteen band). In Hollywood he cut the feature-length Rocky Mountain Oprey for Capitol Records, featuring Emmy Lou Harris.
Jim directed documentaries in diverse locations: Naval ships, villages in France, Spain and Germany, the streets of San Francisco, and in the UK he took over as director for Blind Faith, the award-winning TV film about blind people sailing.
In Canada he returned to editing: a two-screen interactive piece for the Canada Pavilion at Expo Barcelona; Emmy-nominated Threads of Hope (narrated by Donald Sutherland); and Gemini-nominated Monarch, Butterfly Beyond Borders.
Moving to the Okanagan in 2002, he produced and filmed The Hyderabad Solution, about the restoration in India of 17th Century manuscripts submerged in water and sewage. In the same year he filmed Caroline's Rock, about the local financial scandal around the sculpture "Energy-V" created in Vernon, premiered with its Viennese sculptor Caroline Ramersdorfer attending.
Short films include Walk-On (disabled people ride horses); Journey to Casa Guatemala (high school students volunteer at an orphanage); Real World 101 (High School full-time forestry project), Global Education for Clarence Fulton High School, and a dramatized Search-and-Rescue training film for the BC Justice Institute.
His feature-length documentary Sveva, Imprisoned - Sveva Caetani's dramatic life and work, produced by his partner Cathie Stewart) holds the house attendance record for a single production at the Vernon Performing Arts Centre after being seen by over 4,500 people.
He took potter Bob Kingsmill to visit a New Zealand artists' commune run by Barry Brickell, an eccentric potter in the Coromandel: the result was Passion for Fire. In the same year he completed Whose Grandma Are You, filmed at the Meadows School project with Sharon Mackenzie, with the Vernon premiere introduced by CBC's Shelagh Rogers. He filmed "Go Cirquw" - the backstage production of Cirque Theatre Company's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
He left the BBC to become an editor, and edited his first feature movie. Also TV commercials for JWT and McCann Erickson, and PR documentaries for Esso, Beecham's and Olympus. He then returned to the BBC as a freelance drama editor and documentary director. His feature editing credits are: Loving Feeling, Terror, Spaced Out, and Horror Planet.
For Zoetrope UK he edited music videos for U2, Stray Cats and April Wine, and edited feature length videos: Police Round The World; Urgh! a Music War; and Men Without Women with Steven Van Zandt (ex the Bruce Springsteen band). In Hollywood he cut the feature-length Rocky Mountain Oprey for Capitol Records, featuring Emmy Lou Harris.
Jim directed documentaries in diverse locations: Naval ships, villages in France, Spain and Germany, the streets of San Francisco, and in the UK he took over as director for Blind Faith, the award-winning TV film about blind people sailing.
In Canada he returned to editing: a two-screen interactive piece for the Canada Pavilion at Expo Barcelona; Emmy-nominated Threads of Hope (narrated by Donald Sutherland); and Gemini-nominated Monarch, Butterfly Beyond Borders.
Moving to the Okanagan in 2002, he produced and filmed The Hyderabad Solution, about the restoration in India of 17th Century manuscripts submerged in water and sewage. In the same year he filmed Caroline's Rock, about the local financial scandal around the sculpture "Energy-V" created in Vernon, premiered with its Viennese sculptor Caroline Ramersdorfer attending.
Short films include Walk-On (disabled people ride horses); Journey to Casa Guatemala (high school students volunteer at an orphanage); Real World 101 (High School full-time forestry project), Global Education for Clarence Fulton High School, and a dramatized Search-and-Rescue training film for the BC Justice Institute.
His feature-length documentary Sveva, Imprisoned - Sveva Caetani's dramatic life and work, produced by his partner Cathie Stewart) holds the house attendance record for a single production at the Vernon Performing Arts Centre after being seen by over 4,500 people.
He took potter Bob Kingsmill to visit a New Zealand artists' commune run by Barry Brickell, an eccentric potter in the Coromandel: the result was Passion for Fire. In the same year he completed Whose Grandma Are You, filmed at the Meadows School project with Sharon Mackenzie, with the Vernon premiere introduced by CBC's Shelagh Rogers. He filmed "Go Cirquw" - the backstage production of Cirque Theatre Company's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
