Bill Kelman’s first job in commercials was as a PA on a Chevy truck roundup commercial, cleaning up horseshit with a wheel barrow and shovel. Not wanting to leave the excitement of show business, it was all uphill from there, freelancing articles for Inside Kung Fu, the LA Weekly and Millimeter Magazine, writing greeting cards and a stint writing liner notes for porno video cassettes.

Soon after, his career rocketed with stints as a screenwriter on unmentionable C-movies with words like “Bikini” and “Babe” and “Academy” in the titles but the big money came when he sold a script to Warner Brothers that never got made. With his new found cash stash, Kelman financed, directed and wrote his first feature, “The Almighty Fred” which appeared in fourteen film festivals and garnered worldwide distribution. His next festival opus, “Succubus”, appeared in Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals around the world where he received a Best Director award in France. Pretty good for a straight guy. Kelman has just finished another comedy film, “Serving Santino” which is out on the festival circuit.

In his next incarnation, Kelman became a commercial director. His first spec spot was sold to Ducati NA. His work appeared three times in the One Show Creative Showcase and two of his spots appeared Shoot Magazine in their spotlight section, ”Best Work You’ll Never See.” His work also appears on Sprint PCS and Verizon video phones in a folder titled “World’s Funniest Commercials”. Additionally, he directed “Excuses”, a cell phone series and “Spinnin’” a pilot/doc on DJ Hollywood. He has also consulted with Antics 3D a pre-visualization company. In addition, he is a contributor to Getty Images and was a judge for the Nicholls Fellowship sponsored by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. He is also a returning guest lecturer at the internationally respected Beijing Film Academy in China. The rest is history.

This year he was a consultant for the Aquarian Project, directed by Drew Heriott of "The Secret". He has just finished consulting with CharismaTV on the arabic language feature film "Manahi" and is continuing his consulting with Charisma on four TV pilots. He is also working on feature film projects with various domestic and international funding funding sources. Kelman is now an executive producer with Santoon Productions, a Beijing based animation company.

He is now repped non-exclusively around the US, Canada, China, the Middle East and Italy and continues to work on feature film development.