Jim Hosking is a British commercials, features, and television director whose work pairs absurd, eccentric comedy and heightened or shocking visuals with emotional character beats. He began as a copywriter directing on-air promos at MTV in New York, then directed commercials including Cadbury’s Unwrap Gold and other Cadbury work, Travelocity, Xbox, Skittles (the Super Bowl teaser “Deliver the Rainbow” with Elijah Wood, plus earlier Skittles), DiDi’s “Yes, I DiDi.,” V Energy Drink, Jaffa Cakes (“King Of The Roller Palace”), 5 Seeds, and Gumtree. He has described commercials as forcing heightened casting, styling, and fun rather than conventional cool. Shorts including Sundance-premiering Renegades, Crabs, Little Clumps of Hair, and ABCs of Death 2’s “G is for Grandad” led to feature debut The Greasy Strangler (Sundance 2016 Midnight), which won Best Comedy at the Empire Film Awards and the Discovery Award at the British Independent Film Awards. Second feature An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn (Sundance 2018 NEXT) starred Aubrey Plaza, Jemaine Clement, Craig Robinson, and Emile Hirsch. He created Adult Swim’s Tropical Cop Tales and has had four projects premiere at Sundance. Based in London.