Jim is an award-winning, Filipino-American filmmaker and development exec. His 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 Joe Swanberg ("Drinking Buddies")—and is a 2021 3Arts 'Make a Wave' grantee.

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, stars non-binary alt/fetish model and performer Cam Damage, and 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 feature debut, HOMESICK, is currently in development with Chicago Film Project.

Samples of his work may be viewed at http://www.jimvendiola.com/filmography/

Selected Filmography:

• Pretty Pickle (Narrative Short, In Development): Writer/Director, Co-Producer
• Homesick (Narrative Feature, In Development): Co-Writer/Director, Co-Producer
• Library Hours (Narrative Short, 2017): Writer/Director
• Violets (Narrative Short, 2015): Writer/Director, Producer
• Sunny Days (Narrative Feature, 2013): Writer/Director, Producer
• No More Blood (Narrative Short, 2011): Co-Writer
• Drift (Narrative Short, 2010): Writer/Director, Editor, Cinematographer
• Petersburg (Narrative Feature, 2007): Co-Writer/Director, Editor
• Chicago 360 (Documentary Feature, 2006): Writer/Director, Editor, Cinematographer (segment, "Our Fallen Spacemen")

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