James Dunnison is a Canadian film and television director.

Life and career

Dunnison directed the feature film Stuff and the TV pilot and six additional episodes of Todd and the Book of Pure Evil

Todd and the Book of Pure Evil

Todd and the Book of Pure Evil is a Canadian comedy/horror television series that follows a group of high school students who confront the effects of a demonic book. The series premiered on Space Channel on September 29, 2010 with two back-to-back episodes...

, as well as twelve episodes of HBO Canada’s critical darling Less Than Kind

Less Than Kind

Less Than Kind is a Canadian television comedy-drama series that stars Jesse Camacho as Sheldon Blecher, a teenager growing up in a loving but dysfunctional Jewish family in Winnipeg. The show's cast also includes Maury Chaykin and Wendel Meldrum as Sheldon's parents, Benjamin Arthur as his older...

. He has also directed episodes of Blood Ties

Blood Ties

-Film:* Blood Ties , a 1964 film directed by Mikhail Yershov and starring Vija Artmane and Evgeniy Matveyev* Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann, a 1994 documentary film-Television:...

, Hiccups, Arctic Air, Godiva’s, Whistler and Robson Arms

Robson Arms

Robson Arms is a Canadian television series that began airing on CTV on June 17, 2005 and ended on June 30, 2008. Robson Arms is a co-production between Vancouver-based Omni Film Productions Limited and Halifax's Creative Atlantic Communications....

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Dunnison’s awards and nominations include Grand Prize at the 1998 Cabbagetown Short Film & Video Festival by unanimous jury decision, the General Idea Award for Artistic Contribution to AIDS Awareness, three Gemini Awards, three Directors Guild of Canada Awards, two Canadian Comedy Awards and multiple Leo Awards.

Dunnison is also a published travel writer, and lives in Vancouver, Canada, with his daughter Ava and wife Day Helesic.