JAMES DEREK DWYER/FILMprojects
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Frisk (1995)
Screenwriter, Still Photographer


"Sensual and suggestive...it is a serious and discreet work of considerable dark impact and no little humor."
- Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

SELECTED SCREENINGS
Sundance Film Festival
Toronto Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
Little Shots of Happiness (1997)
Screenwriter, Producer

"Bonnie Dickenson's performance is what legends are made of."
- Detour Magazine


SELECTED SCREENINGS
Berlin International Film Festival
South By Southwest Film Festival
Mill Valley Film Festival
Thessaloniki International Film Festival

numerous awards
Shucking the Curve (1998)
Screenwriter, Producer
"Wicked, wild and wacky..."
-Village Voice

 SELECTED SCREENINGS
New York Underground Film Festival
Chicago Underground Film Festival
San Francisco Indie Fest
Winner, No Dance Film Festival, Best Feature, Best Actress 1998

The Trouble with Perpetual Deja-Vu (1999)
Screenwriter, Producer
"Sexy and relentless"
-Filmmaker Magazine

SELECTED SCREENINGS
No Dance Film Festival
[d] Vision Multimedia Festival 2000

A Sudden Loss of Gravity (2000)
Screenwriter, Producer
"...an eerily authentic and urgently somber look at lives going nowhere in mid-80's Bangor, Maine."
-FilmThreat

SELECTED SCREENINGS
Berlin International Film Festival
Mill Valley Film Festival
No Dance Film and Multimedia Festival
Singapore International Film Festival


Once and Future Queen (2001)
Screenwriter, Producer, Music
"...outstanding- a video-vérité punk fable."
- The Boston Phoenix

 

 SELECTED SCREENINGS
Locarno International Film Festival
Los Angeles Film Festival
BerlinBETA Version 3.0 Film Festival
Athens International Film Festival
Chicago Underground Film Festival
New York Mix Festival
Dallas Video Festival
Film Festival NEW HAVEN
JEONJU International Film Festival, Korea
Digital Talkies, INDIA'S FIRST DIGITAL FILM FESTIVAL, New Delhi

Take Away (2002)
Screenwriter, Producer, Music
Awarded the 2002 ChicagoUnderground Film Fund Grant

 

 SELECTED SCREENINGS
Chicago Underground Film Festival

Up Against A Star (2002)
Producer
"a wild chronicle of the activities of DV auteurs Todd Verow and Jim Dwyer"
-RES Magazine

 Screenings in BOSTON, NEW YORK CITY, VANCOUVER, VIENNA, BERLIN, CHICAGO, LOS ANGELES, , PHILADELPHIA
Against (2003)
Screenwriter, Producer, Music		 SELECTED SCREENING
Chicago Underground Film Festival

Anonymous (2005)
Producer, Original Score
"Particularly edgy – so edgy it almost draws blood"
- LA CityBeat

 

SELECTED SCREENINGS
Berlin International Film Festival
Festival de Films Gays et Lesbiens de Paris
Los Angeles Outfest
San Francisco LGB International Film Festival
New York NewFest
Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Festival Cinema a Tematiche Omosessuali, Turin, Italy
Vacationland (2006)
Screenwriter, Producer, Music
 SELECTED SCREENINGS
Berlin International Film Festival 2006
Buenos Aires 8º Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente
Los Angeles Outfest 2006
Bulldog (2006)
Music		 SELECTED SCREENINGS
New York Underground Film Festival 2006
Winner, Best Feature Film, Chicago Underground Film Festival, 2006
The Boy With The Sun In His Eyes (200?) 
Screenwriter, Producer, Music