James Cullingham

James Cullingham is an educator, award winning documentary filmmaker, a widely published writer and seasoned national broadcaster. He is a professor of Journalism and English and Liberal Studies at Seneca College in Toronto and has served as an executive producer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). His documentaries concerning social justice, politics, history and popular culture have been screened around the world. Cullingham has been published by Canada's leading newspapers and magazines. Cullingham speaks French fluently and has a working knowledge of Spanish. In 2012-13, Cullingham is about to release In Search of Blind Joe Death * The Saga of John Fahey. This documentary chronicles the life and work of John Fahey (1939-2001), the extremely influential American guitarist, composer, author and provocateur. In 2007, Cullingham's Tamarack Productions released Dishonour Defied, directed by Azra Rashid about the Pakistani activist Mukhtar Mai. The film won the Sivler Remi Award for Women's Issues at WorldFest The Houston International Film Festival. In 2005, Cullingham released the documentary film Lessons in Fear in association with Seneca College. The film takes an unprecedented look at the education of Israelis and Palestinians. In October 2005, the film was screened at the Calgary International Film Festival. In April 2004, Cullingham wrote and narrated Lessons in Loathing a feature radio documentary on the subject for the program Dispatches on CBC Radio One. Festival Express , a documentary feature on which Cullingham served as story consultant and makes a brief appearance, was released theatrically in major Canadian and American cities in the summer of 2004. In September 2003, the film had an acclaimed world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. It celebrates the amazing train tour that Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, The Band, Buddy Guy and other musicians took across Canada in the summer of 1970.