Jim Greayer is an award-winning writer and director of documentaries and drama with over fifteen years experience of making films for US and British television. He specialises in factual drama and drama documentary and enjoys working for some of the biggest networks on both sides of the Atlantic.

 

Jim shot his first full length feature drama in 2015, The Chameleon. Starring Joseph Millson, Sarah-Jane Potts, Amy Manson, Antonia Campbell-Hughes and Richard Brake, the film is distributed worldwide by Entertainment One. The Chameleon won three awards at the British Independent Film Festival 2016: Best Actess (Sarah-Jane Potts), Best Cinematography and Best Feature. The film also won a Silver Palm in the Narrative Feature Film Competition at the Mexico International Film Festival 2016, and Best Film and Best Production Design at Sydney Indie Film Festival in October 2016.

 

In 2016 Jim helped produce Barbarians Rising, a major eight hour historical drama-doc hybrid for History (A&E Networks).

 

In 2017 Jim wrote and directed the short film Doll’s House, which premiered in May at the Paris Short Film Festival, and was showrunner and director on Eight Days That Made Rome, a definitive drama documentary series about the Empire’s rise and fall, presented by Prof. Bettany Hughes and starring Joseph Millson, Sarah-Jane Potts, Richard Brake, Aislinn Sands and Jack Ellis (“…brutality and bookishness” – The Sunday Times)

 

Jim has recently completed profiles of six of America’s most iconic First Ladies, from Eleanor Roosevelt to Michelle Obama. The series is due to premiere on CNN in the autumn as part of their 2020 election offering.

 

Jim is represented by Moray Coulter at Stern & Wild, moray@sternwild.com