Jim Tillman has extensive experience in writing, film, video production, photography, editing, sales and marketing. Award winning videos:
“65 Years of Waiting” , a documentary featuring the Sioux City West High School 1998-99 Championship Season for Iowa Class 4A Basketball title, which won a 2004 Aegis Video Award in the “Sports” category. “Tapping Into The Next Generation”, a 24 minute Gang and Drug prevention video message that won a 2004 Aegis Video Award in the “Education/Training” category. Tillman has been producing videos in Sioux City since September of 1981. Currently he offers documentary and family history videos.
Previous to video productions, he excelled as a sales and marketing executive for Gateway 2000 Computers (North Sioux City, SD) and won honors including Rookie Salesman of the Month and The Million Dollar Sales Achiever. During his career at Gateway, he averaged selling $650,000 dollars gross sales each month with a high of $1.1 million dollars sold in October 1993.
For 17 years Tillman lead the Media Ministry at Mt.Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Sioux City, Iowa from 1996 to 2014. In 2015 Sioux City Black History Mini-Docs was birthed out of the need for more awareness and education of the different contributions African-Americans have made to Sioux City, Iowa, United States of America and throughout the World. Jim is the series originator.
In 2023 the name changed to Sioux City Black History. SCBH.
The Journal of African-American History: Sioux City, Iowa, is Jim’s first publication.