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Los Angeles-based filmmaker
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Director James Kicklighter invested the 1st eighteen several years of his life in Bellville, Ga, inhabitants 123. Given that then, he has long gone on to become a multi-award winning Los Angeles-primarily based filmmaker. His perform has been recognized by the world’s press, like The Hollywood Reporter, The Instances of India, Film Braveness and FilmInk Australia. Kicklighter is at the moment in post-production on two films, Angel of Wherever and The American Concern.

Current Perform

Angel of Wherever is the tale of an empathetic stripper who plays therapist to his many damaged clientele and co-personnel. Angel of Anyplace stars Briana Evigan (“Step Up Film two: The Streets”), Ser’Darius Blain (“Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle”), and introduces Axel Roldos as Angel.

The American Query, his new documentary, examines personalized values methods to understand the partisan divide in The usa. It cuts under politics to uncover the widespread floor that can be the basis for coming collectively. The film is being made with a vast range of thought leaders throughout the cultural spectrum. The American Query just lately commenced editorial with Carlos Puga, the Emmy-award winning producer of MTV’s “True Existence.” Carlos is also a SXSW Jury Award Winner and Sundance Award Nominee.

Furthermore, he not too long ago directed the debut advertisement for We The Potential. It was proven by 2008 Obama for The united states Discipline Organizer and former Lyft govt John McBride. WTF arms supporters with new instruments that leverage social networks and electronic communication channels to mobilize their close friends and communities in elections.

Earlier Work

Los Angeles-based filmmaker James Kicklighter’s initial attribute, Needs of the Coronary heart, was released theatrically across India in November 2015. Kris Sharma (Val Lauren) leaves a budding romance with an artist (Alicia Minshew) in Savannah, GA for a relationship arranged by his mothers and fathers in Rajasthan, India. There, he discovers centuries outdated secrets and techniques that could determine the fate of his future. The film was an formal assortment of numerous festivals throughout the United States and close to the globe, which includes the Cannes Marché du Movie and was the winner of Very best Foreign Movie at the Los Angeles Femme Film Pageant. Movie Threat declared that Wants “matches its narrative’s expansive ambitions with beautiful visions that flip each Ga and India into nearly permanent states of postcard-helpful imagery.” The Independent Critic mentioned it is “both clever and fantastic…[challenging] the two coronary heart and head with a story that is culturally grounded, relatively mystical in nature, and yet psychologically insightful.”

Earlier, Ain’t it Great News said of Followed, his adaptation of the Zombie short tale from Hugo Award winner Will McIntosh, “[is] an totally new and refreshing take on the zombie genre, directed with a delicate and light hand, [it is] the most surprising horror shock seen in really a although.” Fotogramas, one particular of Europe’s top film publications, mentioned that “[Followed]… return[s] the style to progressive social commentary.” 


His most latest critically acclaimed documentary Digital Edition, about The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s transition from print to digital as they operate in a new media environment, is now streaming on Amazon Key and was an official variety of the 2017 Atlanta Movie Competition, an Academy Award qualifying function. Crushed Celluloid raved, “Kicklighter’s route has a kinetic tempo to match its matter issue, but often retains almost everything on a quite human level…[Digital Edition] covers an important matter that I do not feel has been provided a lot imagined in media.”

He was the Movie Director for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential Marketing campaign in Virginia, directing articles showcasing Sen. Tim Kaine, Sean Astin, Lena Dunham (“Girls”), Kate Walsh, (“Grey’s Anatomy”) Bellamy Youthful (“Scandal”), Constance Wu (“Fresh off the Boat”), Miley Cyrus, Olympic determine skater Michelle Kwan, former secretary of condition Madeleine Albright, amongst other general public, private and political figures.

Coming Up Following

Director James Kicklighter is establishing numerous movies with a southern voice for producers Richard Saperstein (The Mist, Se7en), M. Elizabeth Hughes (Limited Expression twelve, Girlfriend’s Working day) and Beau Turpin (Beneath the Leaves, Counterpunch), which includes The Perpetual State of Ga from Casey Nelson and Kate Murdoch (The Previous Treasure Hunt) and Erk, a biopic about legendary university soccer coach Erk Russell.

Moreover, he is revising his first guide, the biography of famed amusement publicist Bobby Zarem. An additional project, his screenplay Escaping Bellview, was highlighted on The Black Listing, SpecScout, and slated. Furthermore, it was named to the Best 50 in the 2016 ISA Quickly Keep track of Fellowship.

Philanthropy

Director James Kicklighter volunteers with AMBITION, a Los Angeles-based plan that teaches entrepreneurial capabilities to reduced-revenue students.

Additionally, James serves on the Advisory Board for the Office of Conversation Arts at Ga Southern University, his alma mater. He was not too long ago picked out of over thirty,000 dwelling graduates to be shown on the inaugural “40 Underneath forty Alumni.”

He was selected for “impact in organization, leadership, group, instructional and/or philanthropic endeavors.”

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