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JAMES DEREK DWYER was born March 4, 1970 and grew up on Cape Cod, MA. He's a writer / producer / photographer / musician / designer / cyclist. He received a BFA degree in Creative Writing and Photography at Emerson College in Boston. It was while studying at Emerson that he programmed a short film/video screening and met director Todd Verow. They began to collaborate on the controversial feature film script of Frisk (Sundance, Berlin, and Toronto 96), based on the novel by Dennis Cooper. It starred Parker Posey, Craig Chester and Michael Gunther.

The experience whet Dwyer's appetite for screenwriting and producing. He initially worked as a still photographer on various low budget indie flicks in San Francisco. Due to its controversial critical reception, Frisk was a baptism of fire that both Dwyer and Verow arose from stronger, with a clearer sense of their artistic convictions and vocation. Together they formed one of the first digital video film companies, Bangor Films.

For the award-winning, ultra low-budget video features Little Shots of Happiness (Berlin, SXSW, Mill Valley 97) and Shucking the Curve (No Dance Fest 99, [d] vision 2000), Dwyer and Verow formulated an approach to filmmaking that gave them complete control and sole ownership of the final product. Digital video and the then-emerging internet and computer technologies factored heavily into their modus operandi. Their next project yielded the New York Underground Film Festival Choice Award Winner/ Chicago Underground Film Festival Silver Prize winner/No Dance winner The Trouble with Perpetual Deja-Vu shot in Dwyer's hometown of South Yarmouth.

Other ultra low-budget, award-winning motion pictures include: A Sudden Lost of Gravity , set in in the eighties in Verow's hometown of Bangor. It world-premiered at the 50th Berlin International Film Festival.

Once & Future Queen , which premiered in Europe at the 53rd Locarno International Film Festival featured Jim's music for the first time. It went on to win awards in far flung divergent locations like South Korea, Chicago and Texas(!)

Jim's articles and film criticisms have appeared in Filmmaker magazine, insound.com, reel.com and Ifilm.

His photography has appeared in numerous national and international publications including the New York Times, Screen and Variety.

He has been profiled along with Verow on CBS' 48 Hours and in the pages of Time Magazine. Bangor Films' movies are available for purchase on DVD.

He published his first novel, The Boy With The Sun In His Eyes in early January 2005. The tale of a deadly 80's giallo movie star and her innocent boy friday is pseudo-biography that mixes high camp and intellectual dribblings into a kind of pink existentialism. Currently, he is adapting his first novel for screenplay and beginning his next one, a scifi pageturner called Bad Plastic.

Jim has recently completed interior design work on apartments in Boston's Back Bay and kitchen & living spaces on Cape Cod. His portfolio will be available online shortly. His web design work began at the beginning of the internet craze.