Kevin Shand moved to Colorado in mid-2005 and joined the staff of the Colorado Film Commission in December of 2005 serving as the Director of Locations Colorado. He was elevated to the position of Executive Director of the Film Commission on May 1, 2006.

During his time with the Colorado Film Commission, Kevin has been actively involved with the creation and subsequent passage of Colorado’s first Film Inventive Legislative Bill that was recently signed by Governor Owens and working with communities across Colorado to help bring film and commercial productions to Colorado.

Kevin Shand began working in the film community when he was hired as Film Commissioner for the City of Modesto in 2000. He quickly expanded the film office to serve all nine cities in the Stanislaus County region.

He is the founder of the Central Valley Film & Video Regional Roundtable, a group of nine county film offices, in California’s San Joaquin Valley, stretching from Bakersfield in the south to Stockton in the north.

Kevin Shand has been active with the California Film Commission, Film Liaisons in California Statewide and was elected a founding member of the Film Liaisons in California Statewide Board of Directors when it was reorganized as a non-profit organization in late 2004. He has also been an active member of the Association of Film Commissioners International since 2001. Kevin was also a volunteer member of the San Joaquin County California Film Commission for several years while he was the owner of National Rent A Car franchise in Stockton, California.

As the Stanislaus County Film Commissioner in California, Kevin Shand helped to facilitate a number of projects including feature films, movies of the week, television commercials, still photography shoots and served on the Board of Directors of the Shockerfest International Film Festival.