James Killough

An award-winning writer, director, producer, and script consultant, James began his film career in India, working with directors such as Muzaffar Ali, Pamela Rooks, and Shekhar Kapur. His screenplay for Rooks' "Miss Beatty's Children" helped it win the Film Festival of India in 1993. That same year he was the MC of the first televised Miss India Pageant, viewed by hundreds of millions around the world, "Something every young American should do at one point in his life," he says. In Hollywood, he wrote and developed film projects and scores of commercials for legendary filmmakers Tarsem Singh, Marcus Nispel and the late Tony Scott, among others. James' directorial debut, Losing Her - his first collaboration with creative partner Rain Li - was the centerpiece for the "Late at Tate" at Tate Britain with a special installation in the main hall of the museum. James is completing a three-picture feature-film deal with Rain Li for a group of major Chinese studios. Their short film "Us" was viewed over 70 million times in twenty-four hours when it streamed in May, 2016 in China. A regular guest lecturer at NYU Film School, his work is also taught at Columbia University, and has been used as an exemplary case study for incoming producers at the Canadian Film Centre. Analysts at UTA named James' adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams" one of the Best Reads of the Year. James divides his time between L.A., his native New York City, Beijing and New Delhi.