James Allan Schamus was born on September 7,1959 and is an American screenwriter, producer, business executive, film historian, professor, and director.
11 Facts About James Schamus
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James Schamus is a frequent collaborator of Ang Lee, the co-founder of the production company Good Machine, and the co-founder and former CEO of motion picture production, financing, and worldwide distribution company Focus Features, a subsidiary of NBCUniversal.
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James Schamus is currently president of the New York-based production company Symbolic Exchange, and is Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University, where he has taught film history and theory since 1989.
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James Schamus is the son of Clarita Karlin and Julian John Schamus, and was raised in Los Angeles.
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James Schamus is married to writer Nancy Kricorian, with whom he has two children.
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James Schamus's output includes writing or co-writing The Ice Storm, Eat, Drink, Man, Woman, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hulk, and producing Brokeback Mountain and Alone in Berlin.
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James Schamus is the author of Carl Theodor Dreyer's Gertrud: The Moving Word, published by the University of Washington Press.
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James Schamus made his feature directorial debut with Indignation, an adaptation of Philip Roth's novel of the same name.
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James Schamus wrote the script for the film, which stars Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, and Tracy Letts, and is the story of a Jewish student at an Ohio college in 1951.
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James Schamus was president of the jury for the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.
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James Schamus has been on the jury of the New York International Children's Film Festival, and has served on the editorial boards of Film Quarterly and Cinema Journal, as well as on the board of Creative Capital and the Heyman Center for the Humanities.