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PRODUCTION RESUME (Word document) Jim started making films when he was ten years old. His father used video equipment for his heating oil business. He brought it home one day and that's when the fun began. Jim pursued his love of the camera at Cinekyd Television Theater in Willow Grove, Pa where he performed as an actor, filmmaker and crew member. That lead to anchoring the Morning News at Archbishop Kennedy High School and then covering the campus of Temple University for its news program Temple Update. He also acted and co-directed two student films. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree, Jim went to work as a sports announcer for Ship to Shore Video covering Radnor High School Football games, where he produced pre and post game shows and half-time features. After one season, Jim took his experience back into TV news where he spent nine years as a photojournalist, part-time producer and reporter in various markets along the East Coast. Jim is a student and devotee of the National Press Photography Association. Under their instruction, Jim learned how to present the news with a cinematic style. The attention paid to sound, angles, editing and lighting gave him the tools he needed to move into filmmaking. Since leaving the news business in 2001, Jim revived a long-lost acting career. He has since appeared on the CBS show HACK, landed parts in Court TV’s Forensic Files, local and national television and radio commercials, student films and small theater. His debut as a film director and screenwriter came with his adaptation of a favorite short story called The Monkey's Paw. The trailer premiered at The Algonquin Film Festival in New Hope on January 28, 2004. Since then, it has screened around Philadelphia and been submitted to various film festivals nationwide. Jim continued his macabre cinematic theme with Ghoul Organ, a short horror film submitted for Good Morning America's "I See Scary Movies" contest. His latest venture is a sequel to the Monkey's Paw called The Paw’s Curse. The script is complete but no shoot date is scheduled. The trailer can be seen on the TRAILERS page. BELOW ARE VARIOUS PHOTOS FROM INDEPENDENT AND MAJOR FILM SETS: October 15, 2009
Jim gets made up to look dead in the new web seires BLEEDER produced by Liberty Bell Films. Click below to see the episode. BLEEDER WEB SERIESAugust 5, 2005
Jim is featured in the Disney film INVINCIBLE as a GIANTS sideline coach shot on location at Franklin Field in Philadelphia. Junuary 15, 2005
In a Temple student film called The Green Door Jim plays another principal roll as a bar owner named C. W. September 25, 2004
On the set of Phaythiz, a Drexel Student film, Jim plays a principal roll as homeless man named George. July 15, 2004
On the set of The Chest Jim is featured as a French Loyalist. |
