JAMES DEREK DWYER was born March 4, 1970 and grew up on Cape Cod, MA. He received a BFA degree in Creative Writing and Photography at Emerson College in Boston.

Acclaimed underground filmmaker Todd Verow and James collaborated on the controversial feature film Frisk(Sundance, Berlin, and Toronto 96), based on the novel of the same name by Dennis Cooper.

After Frisk's explosive premiere, they formed one of the first digital video motion picture companies, Bangor Films. They were hailed as pioneers by the international entertainment media with profiles on CBS’ 48 Hours and in the pages of Time Magazine, Variety and Filmmaker Magazine.

Jim’s own articles have appeared in Filmmaker Magazine, Insound, Reel and Ifilm.

His photography has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Screen International and Variety.

He published his first novel, The Boy With The Sun In His Eyes in early January 2005. The comedy tale of a deadly 80’s giallo movie star and her innocent boy friday is a pseudo-biography that mixes high camp and intellectual dribblings into a kind of pink existentialism.

Bangor Films shot The Boy With The Sun In His Eyes on location in Europe in 2008 on a micro-budget. It world premiered at NewFest, the New York LGBT Film Festival in 2009 and screened later that summer at the Tel Aviv LGBT Film Festival, MixMexico, the Chicago Underground Film Festival and the Out on Film Festival. The soundtrack features music by Ben Onono, Sally Shapiro, Paramo, DJ William Bottin and Colin Owens.

James co-wrote the fake Italo track from the film’s soundtrack, Robots Are Un-American, with DJ Bottin.