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James Willis is an independent Writer/Producer based

in Texas.

James started his career while still in high school and college as a founding member of the CYFC, an organization for young filmmakers. Two of the CYFC’s early productions, “The Past is Not Forgotten” and “A Course of Action” were screened two years in a row at Aggiecon, Texas A&M’s university's annual science fiction convention. These programs were also broadcast in central Texas.

James went on to produce and co-write the feature film “The Dreaded”. This horror/suspense film put a new twist on the vastly popular vampire genre of the 90’s and achieved world-wide distribution.

Various productions followed including work on two documentaries, “Iceman: What We Left Behind”, a study of the Vietnam POW/MIA issue as Associate Producer, and a promo for the proposed documentary “The Missiles of Battery A”, the story of the rise of the Army Air Defense Command and its effects on one community as Producer, Director, and Writer.

After a few years of corporate television and documentary work, James moved back to entertainment producing the television pilot “West Texas Khaki: Beyond the Bridge”a rural comedy set in Texas.

James has preferred to work on independent productions but has also gained valuable experience on studio films such as Paramount Pictures “Necessary Roughness” and Warner Bros. “Any Given Sunday” as a Production Assistant.

Currently, James spends his time writing and has completed several works including his screenplay “Aurora”, and its proposed series off-shoot "Alien Run", his development of the propsed series "Miles Chancey", a collaboration with Willie Boy Jr. and James B. Brandt, and has recently completed his screenplay "After the Fact" based on best-selling author Fred Saberhagen's novel of the same name.