Personal Info
James Schamus
Production
Biography
James Allan Schamus (born September 7, 1959) is an American screenwriter, producer, business executive, film historian, professor, and director. He is a frequent collaborator of Ang Lee, the co-founder of the production company Good Machine, and the co-founder and former CEO of motion picture production, financing, and worldwide distribution company Focus Features, a subsidiary of NBCUniversal. He is currently president of the New York–based production company Symbolic Exchange and is Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University, where he has taught film history and theory since 1…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!
as Self - Screenwriter
Frames
as Narrator (voice)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: A Retrospective
That Film About Money
Misfire: The Rise and Fall of the Shooting Gallery
as Self
These Amazing Shadows
as Self
Lost Forever: The Art of Film Preservation
as Himself
A Very Quiet Man
as Self
A Sense of Character
as Self
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
as Self