James Sadwith

Teaching experience

• Professor, 2018-present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

Filmmaking experience

• Writer/director/producer, Coming Through the Rye. Samuel Goldwyn Films, 2016

• Director/rewrite, A Smile as Big as the Moon, ABC TV/Hallmark Hall of Fame TV Movie, 2011-2012
  Awarded 2013 Academy of Television Arts and Science Special Honor for “television programming that inspires, informs, motivates, and even has the power to change lives.”

• Writer/director/executive producer, Blacktop Cowboys, Warner Horizon series pilot, 2010

• Writer/rewrite, Law & Order, NBC drama series, 2009-2010

• Writer/executive producer, The Things They Carried, AMC miniseries, 2008

• Director/co-executive producer, Life is Wild, CW drama series, 2007

• Director, Waterfront, CBS Drama series, 2006

• Writer/director/producer, The Border, Showtime Drama series pilot, 2007

• Writer/director/executive producer, Mercy Street, CW Drama series pilot, 2006

• Writer/director/producer, The Longest Winter, ABC miniseries, 2006

• Director/rewrite, Elvis, CBS 4-hour miniseries, 2006

• Writer, Homeland Attack, ABC miniseries, 2004

• Writer/director/producer, Murder in Mind, ABC drama pilot, 2003-2004

• Writer/director/producer, Revolution, ABC miniseries, 2002

• Director, Thieves, ABC drama series, 2001

• Creator/executive producer, Cop Land, HBO drama pilot/series, 2000-2001

• Writer, Sherwood Forest Project, Paramount feature, 2000-2001

• Consulting producer, Wonderland, ABC drama series, 1999-2000

• Creator/executive producer/writer, Cracker, ABC drama series, 1997-1998

• Writer/executive producer, Gun, ABC drama anthology series, 1997

• Writer/director/executive producer, Gun, ABC drama anthology pilot, 1996

• Rewrite/director, Homeward Bound II, Disney Feature Film, 1995

• Director, Touched by an Angel, CBS drama pilot, 1994

• Writer, Harmful Intent, CBS M.O.W., 1993

• Director/rewrite, Sinatra, CBS 5 Hour Miniseries, 1992
  Emmy Award for director; Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries; two Golden Globe nominations; nine Emmy Award nominations; DGA Award nomination

• Writer/creator/executive producer, Crossroads, ABC drama series, 1992

• Director, In Broad Daylight, NBC M.O.W., 1991
  TIME Magazine, Best TV Movie or Miniseries 1991

• Director/rewrite, Deadly Intentions … Again, ABC M.O.W., 1991

• Rewrite, Leopold and Loeb, NBC M.O.W., 1991

• Writer, Boston Murder, ABC M.O.W., 1990

• Writer, Moscow Station, ABC Miniseries, 1989

• Writer/director, Baby M, four-hour ABC miniseries, 1988
  Emmy nomination for writing, seven Emmy Award nominations