JAMES DEREK  DWYER was born March 4, 1970 and grew up on Cape Cod, MA.  He's a Pisces / writer / producer / photographer / musician / designer / cyclist. He received a BFA degree in Creative Writing and Photography at Emerson College in Boston.

It was while studying at Emerson that he programmed a short film/video screening and met director Todd Verow. They began to collaborate on the controversial feature film script of Frisk (Sundance, Berlin, and Toronto 96), based on the novel by Dennis Cooper. It starred Parker Posey, Craig Chester and Michael Gunther. The 16mm film featured a score by Coil and members of Sonic Youth.

Due to its controversial reception, the notorious Frisk was a baptism of (pink) fire that both Dwyer and Verow arose from much stronger and far more focused. They had a clear sense of their personal artistic convictions and vocations. Together they formed one of the first digital video motion picture companies, Bangor Films and were hailed as pioneers by the international entertainment media.

For the award-winning, ultra low-budget video features Little Shots of Happiness (Berlin, SXSW, Mill Valley 97) and Shucking the Curve (No Dance Fest 99, [d] vision 2000), Dwyer  and Verow formulated an approach to filmmaking that gave them complete control and sole ownership of the final product. Digital video and the then-emerging internet and computer technologies factored heavily into their modus operandi. Their next project yielded the New York Underground Film Festival Choice Award Winner/ Chicago Underground Film Festival Silver Prize winner/No Dance winner  The Trouble with Perpetual Deja-Vu shot in Dwyer's hometown of South Yarmouth.  

Other ultra low-budget, award-winning motion pictures include: A Sudden Lost of Gravity , set in in the eighties in Verow's hometown of Bangor. It world-premiered at the 50th Berlin International Film Festival.

Once & Future Queen , which premiered in Europe at the 53rd Locarno International Film Festival featured Jim's music for the first time. It went on to win awards in far flung divergent locations like South Korea, Chicago and Texas(!)

Jim's articles and film criticisms have appeared in Filmmaker magazine, insound.com, reel.com and Ifilm.

His photography has appeared in numerous national and international publications including the New York Times, Screen and Variety.

He has been profiled along with Verow on CBS' 48 Hours and in the pages of Time Magazine. Bangor Films' movies have won awards all over the international film festival circuit and are available for purchase on DVD.

He published his first novel, The Boy With The Sun In His Eyes in early January 2005. The tale of a deadly 80's giallo movie star and her innocent boy friday is pseudo-biography that mixes high camp and intellectual dribblings into a kind of pink existentialism.

In November 2007, Bangor Films shot his first novel for the screen with Todd in Europe.

Jim's beginning to write his next novel, For Same or Better and a screenplay for a film set in Buenos Aires, Argentina based on the life of a young Porteña tour guide and her crazy family.

Jim has recently completed interior design work on apartments in Boston's Back Bay and kitchen & living spaces on Cape Cod. His portfolio will be available online shortly.

His web design work began at the beginning of the internet craze. Check out some of the companies he works with.