James E. Duff is an award-winning director of narrative features, documentaries and shorts, as well as theatre in New York City. His independent feature film, HANK AND ASHA, won the Audience Award at the Slamdance Film Festival. It went on to screen at more than 50 international film festivals, winning more than 20 awards, and is distributed by FilmRise. His short film, LIFE IS A SWEET, screened at over 40 festivals worldwide, and his documentary, THE CYCLE ALSO RISES, was broadcast nationally on PBS as part of the POV series. He spent two years in West Africa directing development and human rights documentaries, and has taught filmmaking at Prague Film School, Stone Street Studios in NYC, at a refugee camp in the Sahara desert, and in India and Kenya. James earned his MFA in directing from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where he won a fellowship for excellence in directing actors.
