Jamie Yerkes
- Director
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Producer
Jamie Yerkes works as a cinematographer, a professor of film, an editor
and a writer/director. His short film, Cowboy Jesus, received the
Judges Special Merit Award at the New England Film Festival, the
Audience Award at the Albany International Short Film Festival, and the
Recompense Exceptionelle Award at the Cineffable Festival in Paris.
Cowboy Jesus screened at the Sundance Film Festival and has been a
controversial favorite at festivals internationally. His first feature,
Spin the Bottle, received the Martin Bregman Production Award and an
Eastman Kodak Product Award. Spin is currently touring the festival
circuit, having screened at the Austin Film Festival (audience award
finalist), Norwegian Film Festival (juror's award finalist), the New
York Comedy Film Festival, the San Francisco Gay Lesbian Film Festival
and the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
