Jim Cummings

Jim Cummings is a Los Angeles-based producer, writer, director, and actor. Born on October 31, 1986 in New Orleans, he started his film career with multiple short films, including the 2016 short film THUNDER ROAD, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. He later adapted it into a feature film of the same name, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the SXSW Film Festival in 2018. His next feature, THE WOLF OF SNOW HOLLOW, was released in 2020 to critical acclaim. He also co-directed a feature film with longtime collaborator PJ McCabe with 2021's THE BETA TEST, which screened at festivals such as the Berlin International Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival. He's had numerous appearances in other films such as the surreal comedy GREENER GRASS and the horror film HALLOWEEN KILLS. He's also appeared in hit shows like Hulu's THE HANDMAID'S TALE and FX's DAVE.

Works

The Handmaid's Tale

Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.

Release Date2017-04-26

Charactersd Burke

Episode Count1

Vote Count3291

The Righteous Gemstones

The story of a world-famous televangelist family with a history of deviance, greed and, yes, charitable work, all in the name of Jesus.

Release Date2019-08-18

Charactersd Captain Cane

Episode Count1

Vote Count295

Barry

A hit man from the Midwest moves to Los Angeles and gets caught up in the city's theatre arts scene.

Release Date2018-03-25

Charactersd Movie Barry Berkman

Episode Count1

Vote Count1162

DAVE

A suburban neurotic man in his late 20s has convinced himself that he’s destined to be one of the best rappers of all time. Now he must convince his closest friends, because with their help, he might actually convince the world.

Release Date2020-03-04

Charactersd Nice Guy

Episode Count1

Vote Count191

The Yeti

When an oil tycoon and a famous adventurer vanish into the harsh winter of remote northern Alaska, a hand-picked rescue team endeavors to bring them home. What they don’t know is that they are trespassing on The Yeti’s territory, and the elements are the least of their worries.

Release Date2026-04-04

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Charactersd Booker

Vote Count63

Redux Redux

In an attempt to avenge her daughter’s death, Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, killing her daughter’s murderer again and again. As she becomes consumed by vengeance, her humanity begins to slip away—until the cycle is disrupted when she rescues Mia, a sharp-witted teenager already marked by the killer.

Release Date2025-12-28

Charactersd Jonathan

Vote Count159

Halloween Kills

Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last encounter, she inspires her daughter Karen, her granddaughter Allyson, and all of Haddonfield to rise up against the unstoppable monster.

Release Date2021-10-14

Charactersd Pete McCabe

Vote Count2927

The Wolf of Snow Hollow

Terror grips a small mountain town as bodies are discovered after each full moon. Losing sleep, raising a teenage daughter, and caring for his ailing father, officer Marshall struggles to remind himself there's no such thing as werewolves.

Release Date2020-10-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd John Marshall

Vote Count520

The Screener

The Screener

Wary of sending out digital links, an independent filmmaker presents her latest film to a talent agency in their private screening room. When it inevitably leaks, a frantic cover-up begins, until the district attorney decides to prosecute the agency as a white-collar crime syndicate. As the office builds its case, everyone involved becomes a witness… or a potential defendant.

Release Date2026-01-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Tony Avalutto

Episode Count1

The Last Stop in Yuma County

While awaiting the next fuel truck at a middle-of-nowhere Arizona rest stop, a traveling young knife salesman is thrust into a high-stakes hostage situation by the arrival of two similarly stranded bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty—or cold, hard steel—to protect their bloodstained, ill-gotten fortune.

Release Date2024-05-10

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Charactersd The Knife Salesman

Vote Count363

HELP

An exhausted nurse slaughters what she thinks is a horrifying bloody mangled monster to survive the night, but the truth she uncovers in the aftermath is far more horrifying than any creature.

Release Date2026-02-05

Charactersd Austin's Armory

Greener Grass

Suburban soccer moms find themselves constantly competing against each other in their personal lives as their kids settle their differences on the field.

Release Date2019-10-17

Charactersd Rob

Vote Count146

13 Cameras

Newlyweds Claire and Ryan have just moved into a new house. Both are hoping Claire’s pregnancy will be the cement needed to hold their already fraying relationship together. Little do they know their marital issues are the least of their problems. For unbeknownst to them, their scruffy, sleazy and lascivious landlord has installed numerous miniature cameras all over their home and has been spying on them from Day One. Then Ryan begins an office affair, and the landlord kits out the secret basement with chains and soundproofing. Something is going to give in this suburban shocker packed with nasty surprises.

Release Date2016-04-15

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Charactersd Paul

Vote Count166

The Block Island Sound

Something lurks off the coast of Block Island, silently influencing the behavior of fisherman, Tom Lynch. After suffering a series of violent outbursts, he unknowingly puts his family in grave danger.

Release Date2021-03-11

Charactersd Dale

Vote Count267

The Beta Test

An engaged Hollywood agent receives a mysterious letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes ensnared in a sinister world of lying, infidelity, and digital data.

Release Date2021-10-15

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Charactersd Jordan Hines

Vote Count244

Thunder Road

A police officer faces a personal meltdown following a divorce and the death of his mother.

Release Date2018-09-12

DepartmentVisual Effects

JobVisual Effects

Charactersd Officer Jim Arnaud

Vote Count453

15 Cameras

A couple buys a house from The Slumlord Tapes, infamous for hidden cameras and a psycho landlord. It's not as safe as they tell themselves.

Release Date2023-10-13

Charactersd Paul

Vote Count52

DISC

The story of a hookup gone too far up.

Release Date2025-09-04

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Charactersd Carey

Minutes

In this comedy series, shot in single takes, six young people each experience pivotal moments in their lives that don't quite go as planned and lead to various breaking points as a result.

Release Date2017-01-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Police Officer

Vote Count7

The Big Game

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Charactersd

Beast Beast

A look at the lives and trauma surrounding three people living in a southern town.

Release Date2021-04-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Charactersd Police Officer

Vote Count4

Stay for the Q&A

Following a feature film premiere, at a prestigious film festival, a routine Q&A devolves into a familiar and unhinged experience.

Release Date2026-04-13

Charactersd Alex DeLarge (Moderator)

Thunder Road

Jimmy Arnaud eulogizes his mother.

Release Date2016-01-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd James Arnaud

Vote Count54

The Show About the Show

Independent Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi is trying to make a television show. He persuades BRIC TV, a Brooklyn non-profit Arts organization, to finance a television show whose premise is that every episode will be about the making of the previous episode. In the process of creating the show, everything can-and does-go wrong. The cast, a who's who of Brooklyn's independent filmmaking community, includes Alex Karpovsky, Eleonore Hendricks, Dustin Defa, and Onur Tukel.

Release Date2017-03-17

Charactersd YouTube Commenter

Vote Count2

Followers

Wendy has the sneaking suspicion that meeting with Emma, who subsequently invites herself and her partner Mike over for dinner, was no chance encounter.

Release Date2023-02-12

Charactersd Christopher

Is Now a Good Time?

A Marvel employee's workday is spent attempting to grant a terminally ill child's wish to see an unreleased Captain America film, leading to dark comedy and commentary on corporate control over art.

Release Date2024-06-07

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Charactersd Kyle Dimartin

Vote Count10

Still Life

In these three short films, we examine key issues in the American cultural conversation—incarceration, race, life, death, digital culture, gender—through a distorted lens. They may be fictional, but these dizzying one-take videos do have the ring of truth.

Release Date2017-06-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Jim (segment "The Mountains of Mourne")

Vote Count1

The Mountains of Mourne

As Jordan, a social influencer, enters a hotel room, he logs onto his laptop and announces to his viewers that this will be his last post. As this short film continues, the reasons for this decision become quite clear.

Release Date2017-08-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Jim

Vote Count6

The Stop

"Last thing you guys want in your car is a feathered serpent." Gloria and her friends do drugs and then get pulled over by a cop

Release Date2016-02-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Officer

Vote Count3

Us Funny

Jim and Julia spend their day on a wonderful date in Los Angeles. They are very much in love. Interspersed, are scenes of Jim at Julia's funeral.

Release Date2017-01-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Jim

Vote Count4

Flavor of the Month

A B-list Chinese actor fears being replaced as “Hollywood’s Asian” while screen testing for a life-changing role.

Charactersd Agent John

Pretty Sad

A glamorous young woman puts herself back together after enduring an episode of vicious violence.

Release Date2024-07-31

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Charactersd Mr.

Stop Scrolling and Dust Off Your Horse... The Great Great Grandson of Sartana is Here!

A brand new and exclusive short from filmmakers Jim Cummings and Julia Bales

Release Date2021-12-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Diablo Garko

Sell Your House

A first-time director convinces his best friend to sell his house in order to fund their debut feature film. Everything goes really well. A documentary following the making of "The Last Stop in Yuma County."

Release Date2026-02-07

Charactersd Self

Deauville et le rêve américain

Reflec­tion of the soci­ety and vec­tor of the occi­den­tal cul­ture, Amer­i­can cin­e­ma influ­ences the entire world since its debuts.

Release Date2020-09-05

Charactersd Self

Searching

After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.

Release Date2018-08-24

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count4263

Calladita

Ana has just arrived from Colombia and is the maid of a luxurious mansion on the Costa Brava, where a family of wealthy art dealers spends their summers. The young woman works tirelessly and without a contract, under the promise of decent conditions at the end of the summer, if she remains obedient and discreet.

Release Date2024-05-17

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count43

Isle Child

When a Korean-American adoptee discovers his birthmother is terminally ill, he must decide whether to preserve his American identity or uncover his vague past.

Release Date2025-04-25

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Disfluency

When Jane fails her final college class, she returns home to her parent's lake house where she comes to terms with the confusing trauma that derailed her senior year.

Release Date2025-01-10

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count8

Corey Feldman vs. the World

With unprecedented access, this years-in-the-making vérité documentary embeds with Corey Feldman as he mounts a surreal rock tour with a band of lingerie-clad "angels". The tour goes horribly awry, forcing Feldman to confront his long-held allegations about abuse in Hollywood and his own darkest secrets.

Release Date2025-12-03

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count4

The Surrogate

Jess is thrilled to be the surrogate for her best friend and his husband, but when a prenatal test comes back, it creates a moral dilemma that threatens their friendship.

Release Date2021-07-09

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count14

$aving Dat Money

The video of "$ave Dat Money" became popular on Facebook and Twitter almost immediately after it was released, in which Lil' Dicky tried to get key lements from expensive videos, which were all free. He knocked on the door of a stranger's mansion and asked to use the house for 15 minutes. He managed to get a free sports car, penetrated into the otherworldly world of Hollywood nightclubs, and even crashed a T-Pain video-shoot. How did he accomplish such a bold quest? The documentary has all the behind-the-scenes stories during the creation of the video, and there were many gags in the process.

Release Date2015-09-29

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Sauna Sickness

Struggling to maintain the peace she mistakes for love, Cleo's steamy New Year's Eve plans fissure into a chilling nightmare.

Release Date2026-01-22

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Krisha

When Krisha returns to her estranged family for Thanksgiving dinner, past demons threaten to ruin the festivities.

Release Date2016-03-18

DepartmentProduction

JobAssociate Producer

Vote Count219

Krista

In a high school theater class, Krista uses her scene study as catharsis.

Release Date2018-03-10

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count4

Parent Teacher

"Nobody should be eating tater tots as a meal." Mr. Zahn meets the parents of his unruly students and learns that the apples don't fall far from the trees.

Release Date2018-07-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

The Last Brunch

Sometimes you don't realize how thirsty you are until it's right in front of you.

Release Date2024-03-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count8

In a Silent Way

In A Silent Way centers around a young jazz guitarist, Jazzen Goodman, who dreams of becoming a jazz legend. He hires his best friend Dylan to film him on his journey through the jazz world. After being upstaged by his old bandmate at a house show where their now dueling bands are on the same bill, Jazzen has a dream about his death. Haunted by this "premonition" that he will meet his death in 30 days, Jazzen starts to devise a surefire plan that will take him to his ultimate goal of "post-mortem solidification into the annals of jazz history".

Release Date2022-06-17

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Native Stand Up

John performs stand-up comedy for the first time. It actually goes pretty okay.

Release Date2017-01-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Public Freakout

A group of strangers collide at a gas station.

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count1

The Robbery

Meet Crystal. She decides to rob a liquor store. It goes pretty ok.

Release Date2017-01-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count29

Marty Hearts Katie

Marty gets a call that he will be taking on the lead role of King Lear due to the lead actor falling ill, but first he must complete his shift at the loca restaurant where problems begin to escalate throughout the evening, including Kate, the girl he thought he was dating, showing up with another man.

Release Date2017-01-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Cory Comes to Christmas

A daughter comes home for Christmas to introduce her boyfriend to her weird family.

Release Date2017-01-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Snake Oil Song

Chino spends his days on the outskirts of the Amazon river hunting the anaconda that ate his dog. When an American hires Chino as a river guide, an encounter with illegal gold miners puts his life in jeopardy.

Release Date2025-10-05

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

It’s All Right, It’s Ok

A man drops to his knees to give CPR to a stranger. But all is not what it seems. “It’s All Right, It’s OK” is the first short film from a triptych by Jim Cummings titled “Still Life.” Each of the films in the series was shot in one dramatic take.

Release Date2017-06-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count16

The Flamingo

It's a 3D movie about a breakup. Marty moves into a hotel for a month. It's a painful dance.

Release Date2012-12-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Behold The Claw

Five strangers meet online and come together, to take a pilgrimage to Loch Ness. Unaware that one of their numbers is an imposter, they go in search of a monster... and don't have to look too far to find one.

Release Date2024-03-20

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count1

Frolic 'N Mae

Outcast from her cousin's party, 10-year-old Mae creates Frolic from ink and cardboard, then Frolic creates mayhem.

Release Date2017-03-25

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Hydrangea

In life we often play a role, be that a parent, a spouse, an employee, etc. Writer/director Jim Cummings explores the dynamics between playing a part and being real in this short film about an idealized family.

Release Date2017-08-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count7

Bike Against The Wind

Mark Vashro travels by bicycle from Boston to San Diego through the southern regions of the United States. As he travels, he meets fascinating people and asks them how they ended up where they are. He meets Dave, an alcoholic from Virginia who is trying to reach his family in North Carolina. A woman in New Orleans who used to be an acclaimed designer in New York but realized it wasn't the right life for her. A fisherman living in a self built, single room house in the marshes of Louisiana, wondering how the oil spill will affect his life. These people along with amazing experiences and scenery tell a story of great adventure and human experience.

Release Date2015-04-01

DepartmentCamera

JobAdditional Photography

Golf!

Hank apologizes during a game of golf.

Release Date2019-07-08

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count2

Confusion Through Sand

A nineteen year old finds himself alone in a hostile desert, scared as hell and trained to react.

Release Date2014-03-08

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count5

The Chucko

A couple endures a house tour under a chucko.

Release Date2015-09-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Show About the Show

Independent Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi is trying to make a television show. He persuades BRIC TV, a Brooklyn non-profit Arts organization, to finance a television show whose premise is that every episode will be about the making of the previous episode. In the process of creating the show, everything can-and does-go wrong. The cast, a who's who of Brooklyn's independent filmmaking community, includes Alex Karpovsky, Eleonore Hendricks, Dustin Defa, and Onur Tukel.

Release Date2015-10-06

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

A Fresh Hell

A once-prominent leftist podcaster struggles to break into comedy after his co-hosts get canceled. He loses his home to L.A. fires and bounces between friends' places before ending up at a Malibu health center with sinister secrets.