Jim is an award-winning, Filipino-American filmmaker whose work frequently explores heartache, longing, liminality, eros, and pathos. He’s a Newcity FILM 50 hall-of-famer, named in 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2024 alongside such production notables as Dick Wolf (LAW & ORDER), The Wachowskis (The MATRIX Saga), and Steve James (HOOP DREAMS). Jim was also a 2021 recipient of the 3Arts “Make a Wave” grant, and the grand award winner of the inaugural NewNarratives Program from NewFilmmakers LA and WarnerMedia OneFifty.

His recent short, PRETTY PICKLE—part horror, part comedy of manners, and part romance—made thirty-five festival stops in thirteen months, and is currently available online exclusively through Directors Notes. The film had its International Premiere at Fantasia, its West Coast Premiere at HollyShorts, won “Best Short Narrative” at Chicago Underground Film Festival, and was awarded “Best Midnight/WTF Short” at GenreBlast. Morbidly Beautiful calls it “sexy, subversive, and truly stunning,” while Boston Hassle says it’s “a deeply disturbing little piece of cinema—a raw, haunting short that will gnaw at you long after it’s over.”

His upcoming, neo-noir limited series, ARGUS (co-created with LeLe Park), is currently in development with WarnerMedia OneFifty, and his feature adaptation of Samantha Kolesnik’s queer body horror novella, WAIF, will begin production in 2026.