James Cummins

James Thomas Cummins has been involved in all phases of the motion picture industry. Starting in 1980 as an illustrator and continuing as a special effects designer and, ultimately, screenwriter and director. Studying Film/Video and Character Animation at the California Institute of the Arts, he was awarded the only full scholarship granted by the "Walt Disney Company" during the Institute's 1978-79 academic year. Prior to his screen-writing and directing assignments, Cummins was responsible for designing and executing the special make-up effects for New World Pictures House (1985), Orion's Strange Invaders (1983), ABC's The Intruder Within (1981), as well as television episodes of The Twilight Zone (1985) and The Hitchhiker (1983). He also made design and sculpting contributions to such major motion pictures as: Enemy Mine (1985), Cat People (1982), The Thing (1982), Cocoon (1985), DeepStar Six (1989), Jaws 3-D (1983), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), Dead & Buried (1981), The B