James E.D. Stewart

James Stewart is a writer/director best known for his multi-award winning short film FOXED! which has over 20 million views and opened #1 on iTunes. He is the recent recipient of the 2019 Telefilm Canada New Voices Award and Grand Prize winner of the 2019 Vail Film Festival Screenwriting Competition. His gothic tragedy DAILY BATTLES has screened around the world at art galleries and film festivals. James' historical drama series CHATEAU LAURIER was nominated for both the 2019 CSA and WGC awards. In addition, James has directed numerous commercials, and VR projects. His first feature-length screenplay FOXED has won five major competitions - Telefilm, Vail, Script Pipeline, StoryPros and the Hamilton Film Festival. It was also Top 10 in both the Drama and Sci-fi categories at the 2017 Austin Film Festival. FOXED is a fantasy adventure about coexistence, inclusivity, and oppression. The screenplay was also shortlisted for the 2019 Sundance Screenwriters Lab. His 3D work on Werner Herzog's CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS won a Lumière Award and was described by The Guardian as "the reinvention of the cinema medium." A TED speaker and East Timor advocate, James has twice been awarded for his work supporting PTSD awareness among first responders. His first short film TEEN, a story of childhood sexual abuse, won the audience award at the Belfast Children's Film Festival. Jack Dorsey follows him on twitter: jamesstewart3D