Biography

James Bruner is an Award-Winning screen and television writer/producer known for writing everything from #1 Feature Films to Television romantic dramas. His credits include the iconic hit Chuck Norris films Missing in Action (1984), Invasion U.S.A. (1985) and The Delta Force (1986), and Ice Dreams (2009), a Hallmark Channel romantic drama.

Freedom, an original screenplay by James and his wife and partner, Elizabeth Stevens, won the Best American Screenplay Award at the 8 & Halfilm Awards in Rome in 2022 and won an Honorable Mention from the Paris Film Awards in 2022. It is also an Official Seelection of the 2022 Malta Film Awards, Milan Gold Awards and Hamburg Film Awards. Freedom also won Screenplay - Feature Award at the 2021 Prague International Film Festival and the 2021 World Film Carnival - Singapore Competition. Freedom was also a Selection or Finalist in 5 additional Film Festivals in 2021, as well as a Second Rounder in the Script Competition of the 2020 Austin Film Festival. Freedom is an epic story inspired by the exhilarating, romantic and tragic events of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. After reading the script, several Freedom Fighters, including Academy Award winning Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, commented "I felt like I was there."

James and Elizabeth are Co-Executive Producers on Montford: The Chickasaw Rancher (2021), an epic biographical Western feature film produced by The Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma, which premiered on Netflix in November, 2021.

Ice Dreams, an original Hallmark Channel romantic drama, written by James and Elizabeth, was nominated for the $100,000 Epiphany Prize at the 19th Annual MovieGuide(c) Awards. They are also Executive Producers on Looking for Mr. Right (2014), a Hallmark Channel romantic comedy.

They were hired by legendary producer Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck to write and Executive Produce Pretty Boy Floyd, a feature film about the infamous Depression-era outlaw, based on their original research.

James and Elizabeth also wrote, produced and directed the independent comedy feature Hollywood Dot Com (2007). They Co-Produced/Line-Produced the action/thriller feature Clean Sweep (2020) in South Texas.

The duo worked with Columbia Tri-Star Television as writers and producers on developing the one-hour drama series Delta Force 2000.

His first book, written in collaboration with Elizabeth, Beeswing Makes Friends, is available from Archway Publishing in all formats. The entertaining and enlightening children's picture book helps children deal with major changes in their lives with the aid of Beeswing, the little magical golden dragon, and his friends, both human and fantastical.

James has prospected for gold in the Yukon Territory, taught advanced screenwriting at the Red Sea Institute of Cinematic Arts (RSICA) in Aqaba, Jordan, to graduate students from across the Middle East and North Africa, plus, wrestled a bear and lived to tell about it.
- IMDb mini biography by: Adel Nur

Father of actress Jennifer Farley.

Father-in-law of actor John Farley.

Husband of writer/producer/actress Elizabeth Stevens.