James Cullen Bressack | |
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 Bressack in 2015 | |
| Born | c. 1992 (age 32–33) |
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| Website | jamescullenbressack |
James Cullen Bressack (born c. 1992 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film producer, screenwriter and film director. [1] He is the son of Emmy Award-winning writer Gordon Bressack and voice actress Ellen Gerstell. [2] [3]
Bressack's first feature film, My Pure Joy, was released in 2011. His 2012 film Hate Crime , the story of a Jewish family being terrorized in their home by neo-Nazis, was banned in the UK in 2015 by the BBFC due to the "unremitting manner in which [it] focuses on physical and sexual abuse, aggravated by racist invective." [4]
His 2013 film To Jennifer was filmed entirely using an iPhone. [5] His 2014 horror film Pernicious was described as "The Ring meets Hostel". [6]
In 2015, he started the Grit Film Works production company with Zack Ward, the two co-writing the films Bethany (directed by Bressack and starring Ward, Shannen Doherty and Tom Green) and Restoration (directed by Ward). [3] [7]
He directed the 2017 thriller Limelight. [8] In late 2017, he was reported to be directing supernatural revenge thriller Together, and in 2018 the psychological thriller Alone. [9] [10]
Bressack directed the found footage film "To Jennifer" in 2013. [11]
He is Jewish. [12] His film Murder, Anyone? was adapted from his late dad's play. [13]
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Cinematographer | Editor | Notes |
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| 2011 | My Pure Joy | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
| Theatre of the Deranged | Co-director | Co-writer | Yes | Co-cinematographer | Co-editor | segments "Andy's Theatre of Derange", "Speak Easy" | |
| 2013 | 13/13/13 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | [14] |
| Hate Crime | Yes | Co-writer | Yes | Yes | Yes | [15] [16] [17] banned in the United Kingdom in 2015 [18] | |
| To Jennifer | Yes | Yes | Executive | Co-cinematographer | Yes | ||
| 2014 | White Crack Bastard | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
| Theatre of the Deranged II | Co-director | Co-writer | Yes | No | Co-editor | segment "Unmimely Demise" | |
| 2015 | Pernicious | Yes | Co-writer | No | No | No | [19] |
| The Condo | Yes | No | Co-executive | No | No | ||
| 2016 | 2 Jennifer | No | Characters | Executive | No | No | |
| 2017 | Limelight | Yes | No | Executive | No | No | featuring Paul Vandervort, Sean Kanan, Jonathan Lipnicki, Jenna Jameson, Keith Coogan [20] |
| CarGo | Yes | Co-writer | No | No | No | ||
| Bethany | Yes | Co-writer | Yes | No | No | ||
| 2019 | Beyond the Law | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | |
| 2020 | The Call | No | No | Co-producer | No | No | |
| 2021 | Survive the Game | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
| The Fortress | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
| 2022 | Sally Floss: Digital Detective | Yes | No | Executive | No | No | featuring Vernon Wells, Tara Reid, Eric Roberts [21] |
| Hot Seat | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
| Mike & Fred vs. The Dead | No | No | Executive | No | No | featuring Felissa Rose, George Jac, Brian Patrick Butler, Michael C. Burgess, Sadie Katz, Jayce Venditti, Nick Young [22] | |
| 2024 | Darkness of Man † | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | [23] |
| † | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
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