Jim Vendiola

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ABOUT JIM VENDIOLA

Jim is an award-winning, Filipino-American filmmaker whose work frequently explores heartache, longing, liminality, eros, and pathos. He’s been named one of Newcity\'s FILM 50 of 2016, 2018, and 2020—alongside such production notables as Dick Wolf (\"Law & Order\"), The Wachowskis (\"The Matrix Saga\"), and Steve James (\"Hoop Dreams\"). He is a 2021 3Arts “Make a Wave” grantee, and grand award winner of the inaugural NewNarratives Program from NewFilmmakers LA and WarnerMedia OneFifty.His original feature script, SUNNY DAYS, received excellent coverage from Electric City Entertainment (\"Blue Valentine,\"\"The Place Beyond the Pines\") and OddLot Entertainment (\"Drive,\"\"Ender\'s Game\"), while The Black List called it: “a beautifully written, complex character study with a bewitching atmosphere.evaluated purely on the depth, artfulness, and insight of its writing,[it] is better than the vast majority of scripts.”Jim\'s psychological horror short, VIOLETS, which reframes the genre\'s more common predator/prey dynamic, received the 22nd Chicago Underground Film Festival\'s Audience Award. His follow up, LIBRARY HOURS, is a reimagined approach to vintage erotica that favors empathy over objectification, and stylistic purpose over the male gaze. Reviewing its sold-out West Coast Premiere at HBO\'s Outfest LA, one critic wrote, “The material in the hands of a lesser writer or director could have been exploitative, sexually gratuitous and even insensitive, but under Jim Vendiola [it] is anything but.”His latest short, PRETTY PICKLE—part horror, part comedy of manners, and part romance—continues its festival tour with over thirty stops to date. Beyond its International Premiere at Fantasia and West Coast Premiere at HollyShorts, it won “Best Short Narrative” at Chicago Underground Film Festival, “Best Midnight/WTF Short” at GenreBlast, and “First Place: Best Horror Comedy” at Flickers’ Vortex Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Film Festival. Other official selections include the Oscar-qualifying New Orleans and Cleveland International Film Fests. Richard Propes (‘The Independent Critic’) calls it,\"a masterfully constructed short film with a cinematic tapestry of horror, drama, dark humor, and even darker romanticism. Unlike a good majority of the films you\'ll see even on the indie fest circuit,[it] is [one] to watch for.\"His upcoming, neo-noir limited series, ARGUS, is currently in development with WarnerMedia OneFifty.For more information, please visit