THE FLIGHT OF THE GOSSAMER CONDOR was the first production of Shedd Productions, and producers Jacqueline Phillips Shedd and Ben Shedd received numerous international awards, including an Oscar®, for the film.
Since 1985, Shedd has been designing, directing, and producing giant screen IMAX & OMNIMAX type science films, including SEASONS, TROPICAL RAINFOREST, the FORT WORTH FLYOVER II and DANCING IN THE SKY. These elegantly produced giant screen films have gotten excellent reviews and have played in theaters around the world.
Shedd's film productions have been supported by substantial grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the NOVA series public television funders. His films have received forty international awards and are distributed world-wide in five film and video formats, including Laser Disc and Digital Video Disk.
In addition to his production work, Shedd was the 1989/1990 PNM Foundation Endowed Chair Professor of Media Arts in the College of Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico where he originated and taught six production courses in two semesters. For ten years, he was an Adjunct Associate Professor at his alma mater, the world famous University of Southern California's School of Cinema/Television, where he created and taught a course called "Producing the Nontheatrical Film and Video" with Mitchell Block. Shedd has also taught film courses at the California Institute of the Arts, the Art Center College of Design, and he has given numerous lectures on film producing and directing throughout the world.
In 1989, Shedd was one of four recipients of the Alden B. Dow Creativity Residential Fellowship, where he researched the similarities and differences between small screen productions and giant screen 70mm filmmaking. Ben has published and presented several articles and essays about making giant screen frameless films and digital designs, and is writing a book called Exploding the Frame.
Shedd is a Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, Princeton University . He was a Visiting Fellow at the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University during the 1997/1998 academic year doing research on media and informal science education. His work at Princeton has recently been featured in four university articles: "Shedd Lives Life IMAX Size," "Wall Comes to Life," "Imaginations Drive Wall" and "Into the Great Wide."
Shedd is listed in WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA since 1982 and in WHO'S WHO IN ENTERTAINMENT for his film work.
Documentary (Short Subjects) 1978: THE FLIGHT OF THE GOSSAMER CONDOR - Producer (w. Jacqueline Phillips Shedd)
1 nomination, 1 Award