The
youngest child of two show business veterans (his father, Gordon
Bressack, is a three time Emmy award-winning writer of such shows
as Pinky & The Brain and Animaniacs, his mother, Ellen Gerstell,
has given voice to dozens of cartoon characters) James grew up
learning about the business and obsessed with genre films.
James burst onto the indie horror scene...
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...at the age of 18 with his
first feature My Pure Joy. Released by Media Blasters on their Fresh
Meat Shriek Show label in 2012, the film quickly rose to the top
of the best sellers list on Amazon.com in the horror category. His
second feature, Hate Crime garnered him multiple BEST PICTURE and
BEST DIRECTOR awards on the festival circuit in 2012.
Beside
directing his own films, Bressack has helped to bring the work
of other indie horror film directors to light by producing a series
of horror anthologies.