Jim Tushinski

Work: That Man: Peter Berlin
When: 10 pm Friday April 1 2005
Where: Muvico 1 - Centro Ybor

Jim Tushinski

Jim Tushinski is a filmmaker and fiction writer living in Southern California.

Jim's short video, Jan-Michael Vincent is My Muse (2002), which he wrote and directed, has been screened at over 30 film festivals around the world from Austin, Texas to Wellington, New Zealand. Conceived as an exercise in pop culture appropriation, the video combines pirated video and music with paper cutout animation to tell the goofy tale of pre-adolescent same-sex celebrity worship.

Jim's first feature is the documentary, That Man: Peter Berlin, which recounts the story of the man called "the Greta Garbo of gay porn," the legendary photographer, filmmaker, and model Peter Berlin.

Van Allen's Ecstasy (Harrington Park Press, 2004), Jim's first novel, is a finalist for the 2004 Violet Quill Award and has been hailed as "masterful," "gripping," and "immensely satisfying." He is the co-editor (with Jim Van Buskirk) of the forthcoming essay anthology Identity Envy (Harrington Park Press).

His short fiction has appeared in the anthologies His 3 and Quickies, as well as in literary journals including The Lodestar Quarterly, The Blithe House Quarterly, Harrington Gay Men Fiction's Quarterly, and The James White Review.

Jim has been a resident artist at Dorland Mountain Arts Colony and at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.

For more information, please visit the director's website www.jimtushinski.com/.