Montana based Writer/Director Jim Abel has more than twenty years experience and is the founder of Out In The Cold Productions. He works primarily in the Rocky Mountain West but has taken crews to Argentina, England, Mexico, Belize, Yugoslavia, the Bahamas and New Zealand as well as nineteen U.S. States. He has received more than 150 Awards of Excellence for his work and currently serves on The Montana Film and Television Advisory Council as well as the Billings (Montana) Police Foundation Board of Directors.
Television credits include: ABC, A&E, Animal Planet, Bloomberg, CBS, COURT TV, CNN, Discovery, ESPN, FOX, FOX Sports, HBO, The History Channel, The Learning Channel, Lifetime, NBC, Outdoor Life Network, Twentieth Century Fox, The Travel Channel and Warner Brothers.
Commercial/Infomercial clients include: The AB-Belt, Adventure Cycling, Bridgestone/Firestone, Deaconess Billings Clinic, Disney, Famous Dave’s, Helen of Troy, KOA, Montana Silversmiths, Northwestern Energy, Pierce Flooring, Pocket Breathalyzer, PPL Montana, Stockman Banks, Toppik, Travel Montana, VioLight, Viper Grip, Voom Satellite Network, Westwood College and The U.S. Navy.
Corporate/Industrial Video and Infomercial clients include: American Simmental Association, Anheuser-Busch, Apple Computers, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, ConocoPhillips, Home Depot, Intel, John Deere & Company, Johnson & Johnson, Montana Silversmiths, Montana State University, State of Montana - Travel, Pennsylvania Power and Light, Take Charge America, U.S. Census Bureau, Veterans Administration, Wells Fargo Banks, Warner Brothers Home Video, Washington Corporation and Yellowstone National Park.
