Jim Allodi
Director
After studying at New York University and graduating in 1989 with a BFA in film production, Jim Allodi began to write and direct short films. He has also worked as a film editor, cinematographer and actor, appearing in more than 20 film and television productions including The Five Senses (Jeremy Podeswa), Dead Aviators (David Wellington), The Herd (Peter Lynch), American Whiskey Bar (Bruce McDonald) and The Newsroom (Ken Finkleman). In 1997, he was a director resident in the Canadian Film Centre’s Director’s Lab, where he made his most recent short film, Cold Feet (1998). Cold Feet played to critical acclaim at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, among others, and won a Golden Sheaf Award for best screenplay at the Yorkton Film Festival in 1999. The Uncles is Jim Allodi’s first feature film.
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