ACCOLADES

Best Fantastic Short at Fantastic Fest - "Jimmy’s Custom Coffin"
TIFF Official Selection - "Wrecked a Bunch of Cars, Had a Good Time"
Sundance Film Festival Official Selection - "Deerwoods Deathtrap"
Aspen Shortfest Honorable Mention - "Deerwoods Deathtrap"
Vimeo Staff Pick - "Wrecked a Bunch of Cars, Had a Good Time"
Vimeo Staff Pick - "Deerwoods Deathtrap"
Vimeo Staff Pick - "The Christmas Light Killer"
Short of the Week Official Selection - "Smoke Bomb Boys" & "The Christmas Light Killer"
NoBudge World Premiere - "Smoke Bomb Boys"
Winner Best Short Film - "Cochran"
United States Super 8 film festival 2009
Winner Audience Choice Award – "Cochran" United States Super 8 film festival 2009
Winner Audience Choice Award - "Russell Curtis"  Flux Fest 2013
Best 30 movie posters of 2012 - "Only the Young" movie poster –  flavorwire.com

ABOUT

James P. Gannon is a freelance director, cinematographer, editor, photographer and illustrator living in Brooklyn, NY. He works commonly in the realm of independent cinema and the commercial production world.

He has directed 12 short films that have won awards at multiple film festivals, including SXSW, Slamdance, Fantastic Fest, Palm Springs and Aspen. His latest film, Jimmy’s Custom Coffin won the award for best Fantastic Short at Fantastic Fest 2026. in 2024, his short Wrecked a Bunch of Cars, premiered at TFF and in 2022 Deerwoods Deathtrap premiered at Sundance and went on to screen at over 30 festivals, winning a Special Jury Mention at the Aspen Film Festival and Oak Cliff. In April of 2023 it had a theatrical run in 7 cities across the USA. Online, his films collectively have over 500k views and have been selected as Vimeo Staff Picks and featured on sites like Rogert Ebert, Wired, Upworthy, Short Of The Week and NoBudge. As a freelance director, James has created engaging work for The New York Times, Nordstrom, HGTV and GQ.

James has created movie posters for films that have gone on to show theatrically and on cable television. His poster for the 2012 documentary Only the Young was voted by flavorwire.com as one of the best 30 posters of that year, ranked among posters for blockbuster films such as Django Unchained, The Hobbit and Lincoln.