About

the filmmaker

James Boyd is an award-winning filmmaker living in the South Bay beach community of Los Angeles. He hails from Texas, having graduated from Southern Methodist University, before making the move to Hollywood.

James is a semi-finalist in the Motion Picture Academy’s Nicholl Fellowships in screenwriting, writer/director of the feature film THE NEW GODS (SXSW Film Festival), and founder and festival director of the Nodance Film Festival based in Park City, Utah. Nodance was the world’s first DVD-projected film festival, and catered to DIY filmmaking and first-time filmmakers at the dawn of the digital filmmaking revolution. Nodance received press coverage from major media outlets including Time Magazine, CNN, LA Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Moviemaker Magazine.

James has worked in film and video production in many aspects, including as co-executive producer of the feature film HALF-LIFE (Sundance Film Festival), and the short films CRAZY BEATS STRONG EVERY TIME (Sundance Film Festival), and THE BRAVEST, THE BOLDEST (Sundance Film Festival). James directed the CBSi episodic comedy series for Johnson & Johnson titled HECKLERS staring Tom Arnold, Owen Benjamin, Katie Cleary, & Taylor Negron.

James is currently represented by NuMedia Studios Management, and the main 6161 production office is headquartered at the world famous MBS Media Campus (James Cameron’s AVATAR sequels, THE MANDALORIAN TV show for Disney +, and multiple Marvel Studios movies) in Manhattan Beach, California.