James Schamus
Production
Born September 7, 1959 in Detroit, Michigan, USA
James Allan Schamus (born September 7, 1959) is an American screenwriter, producer, business executive, film historian, professor, and director. He 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. He 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. Schamus was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a Jewish family.He is the son of Clarita (Gershowitz) Karlin and Julian John Schamus and was raised in Los Angeles. He is married to writer Nancy Kricorian, with whom he has two children.
Filmography
The Boroughs
Son-in-Law
The Wedding Banquet
McVeigh
We Grown Now
Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms
The King's Daughter
Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!
Self - Screenwriter
Somos.
Driveways
The Assistant
Frames
Narrator (voice)
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
Adam
The Tomorrow Man
Furlough
Dayveon
Casting JonBenet
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: A Retrospective
Indignation
Junction 48
Alone in Berlin
Suffragette
That Film About Money
Lost Forever: The Art of Film Preservation
Himself
These Amazing Shadows
Self
Taking Woodstock
Lust, Caution
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
Self
Brokeback Mountain
Hulk
Buffalo Soldiers
Auto Focus
A Feast for the Eyes: Ang Lee in Taipei
Self
Tortilla Soup
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Love God
Ride with the Devil
Lola and Billy the Kid
Happiness
Office Killer
Wonderland
The Ice Storm
The Myth of Fingerprints
Arresting Gena
She's the One
Walking and Talking
Sense and Sensibility
The Brothers McMullen
Roy Cohn/Jack Smith
Safe
What Happened Was...
Eat Drink Man Woman
The Wedding Banquet
MOTV (My Own TV)
In the Soup
Ambition
Thank You and Good Night
Surviving Desire
Pushing Hands
Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier
I Was on Mars
Poison
Keep It for Yourself