James Morgart is an American

United States

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 film director

Film director

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, producer

Film producer

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, screenwriter

Screenwriter

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, actor

Actor

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, and critic

Critic

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Biography

In 2009, James made his directorial debut with Won Ton Baby!, a comedy horror B-movie

B-movie

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 starring Debbie Rochon

Debbie Rochon

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, Lou Martini, Jr., Suzi Lorraine, and Gunnar Hansen

Gunnar Hansen

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The film has been featured as an official selection at the 2009 GoreZone Weekend of Horrors Film Festival, the 2010 A Night of Horror International Film Festival

A Night of Horror International Film Festival

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, the 2010 Ravenna NightMare Film Festival, and the 2010 New York City Horror Film Festival.

James is currently the Director of Media and Distribution for Viscera Film Festival, the Los Angeles-based film festival for female horror filmmakers. He is also a staff writer for Ax Wound - a feminist horror fanzine focused on gender and horror. Moreover, James is noted for his academic career. He has earned a BSBA in Accounting, a BA in English, a Master of Accountancy from Rider University

Rider University

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, and a Master of Arts in English Literature from Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University

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. As an undergraduate he served as an editorial assistant at Cineaste, and recently served as a keynote speaker at Rider University's Horror Film Symposium where he discussed Eli Roth

Eli Roth

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's Hostel in connection to Marxism

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 as well as Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

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's On the Genealogy of Morals and The Birth of Tragedy

The Birth of Tragedy

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. On Halloween night 2010, he introduced a showing of Rosemary's Baby at the State Theatre in State College by discussing the film's subtext of woman's entrapment in a male-dominated society. He currently attends Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University

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 as a PhD student studying American Gothic-Horror Literature and Film and teaching rhetoric and composition to undergraduates.

Filmography

Year	Film	Credited as
		Director Film director A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...	Producer Film producer A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...	Writer Screenwriter Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...	Actor Actor An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
2011	Won Ton Baby!
	Guy With a Camera
	Legend of Suzi

External links

• Viscera Film Festival
• Ax Wound Zine