FILMMAKERS

Mike Shiley - Director and cinematographer

Mike Shiley, producer/director of Shidog Films is a photographer, filmmaker and freelance journalist. He has recently returned from two months in Iraq, developing exclusive stories for ABC World News Tonight, Nightline and Good Morning America as well as ABC-TV affiliates KATU-Portland, OR, KMGH-Denver, CO and WFTS-Tampa/St. Petersburg FL, international humanitarian aid groups and a variety of online news services.

His new film is entitled INSIDE IRAQ: THE UNTOLD STORIES, a 90-minute documentary that highlights the challenges, opportunities and lives of the Iraqi people and the US soldiers stationed there.

Mike traveled extensively throughout Iraq from the Kurdish controlled region in the north, through the infamous Sunni Triangle in central Iraq and to the sacred Shiite controlled cities in the south. He visited impoverished villages with Western medical teams, went on night patrols along the Syrian border in a tank squadron, flew over the country in a Blackhawk helicopter and walked the streets of Baghdad uncovering the lives of the Iraqi people.

Mike has also worked as a freelance photographer for CNN covering the war in Sarajevo, trekked to Everest Base Camp in Nepal and completed a 3,000 mile solo bicycle trip from British Columbia, Canada to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Mike is also an accomplished scuba diver and as a certified Divemaster, he has guided over 250 dives in the Red Sea in Egypt.

Mike has produced travel films on Iraq, Nepal, Thailand and Cambodia. He has visited 36 countries and loves meeting people, especially children, from around the world.

 


Mike Shiley