Jeff Christian is a 19 time EMMY award winner and two time national recipient of the prestigious Edward R. Murrow award. He is also co-founder of Side Road Media, a production company based in Seattle and Los Angeles. At 15, Jeff began shadowing a reporter at KCCI-TV in Des Moines, IA and was then hired as a Photojournalist.  He won his first Emmy at 19 and was the youngest recipient of a national Edward R. Murrow award at 21.  Jeff has covered multiple presidential campaigns, filmed amidst the conflagrations during Ferguson, the upheaval in Paris after a terrorist attack, and secured a position with NBC News in New York.  He reached the pinnacle of his field and realized that as much as he loved his work in broadcast television, he’d rather tell stories that last longer than the news of the day.  

What is required to tell a powerful story in 30-seconds to a minute honed his eyes and heart for telling longer and more complex stories.  As a filmmaker, his skills are superb, but more so is his ability to find the core of a story, how to capture character, and touch the heart of the audience.  Every good story has conflict, character development, a challenge, and a movement toward completion. His most recent work in creating a short documentary, called Sludge, addresses the scourge of ‘Forever chemicals’ called PFAS that pollute our water and food supply.  As gripping as the story is as a news feature, it is the story of one farmer that had the courage to address this harm that remains with the audience. 

A good storyteller must weave the facts of the story through the life of a compelling character.  Jeff relishes the opportunity to study and understand the core of your story, the characters involved, and how to tell the story that activates your audience not only to act, but to hold you and your message with care and honor. But like any story, there is more to tell.