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James Cullen Bressack James Cullen Bressack
interviewed by Estelita Guerra Born and raised in Los Angeles, James was sur-
rounded by film his entire life. His father was a three
time Emmy award winning writer, and his mother was a
voice actress, so all he knew was the industry. At the
age of 4 James' father took him into the recording stu-
dio of his new TV show. Im-
mediately James walked
around directing. From that
moment on, he was obsessed
with the world of film. Making
a few short films and then
moving forward to writing fea-
tures. He sent out his first fea-
ture screen play at the age of
18 and the film was immedi-
ately funded. James was
given the opportunity to direct
his first horror movie. Argua-
bly the youngest horror writer/
director to date, James is dedi-
cated to his craft and loves it!
He opened up Psykik Junky
Pictures, a production com-
pany that he hopes to use to
make numerous films people
will love! What was the name of the
first TV show your father
worked on that he took you
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radine, David Warner among others. So my dad has
me on the set of the recording, and I waltz right up to
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movie. I came up with the
idea from something when I
was in the rave scene. My
raver name was PSYKIK and
I guess it just stuck! I liked the
name enough to carry it out
and name my company after
it.
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filming in February. But I had
been working on the screen-
play since this past summer.
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ways knew I wanted to be
part of the industry, but not
always in this capacity, When
I was very little I wanted to be
a professional wrestler before
that I wanted to be a cowboy
so I combined the two! My
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films and the more films I watched, the more I started to
get obsessed with those. Then, when I was about in
the 5 th
grade my dad got very sick and all we could do
together was watch movies. He went into the hospital
and after that we just watched movies everyday. I ZRXOG FRPH KRPH IURP VFKRRO DQG ZH�G ZDWFK D PRYLH and talk about it. Eventually I realized that was what I
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