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James Schamus
American filmmaker (born 1959) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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,[2] and is Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University, where he has taught film history and theory since 1989.
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Born | James Allan Schamus[1] (1959-09-07) September 7, 1959 (age 64)[1] Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
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Spouse | Nancy Kricorian |
Children | 2 |
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