Biography

James Arcuri has been educated in the entertainment industry from an early age learning as a hands on worker in production. From high school he formed a cinema class and an informative newsletter about the motion picture business. At the age of 23 he started an international film festival, which ran successfully for over many years. Entered in business as Founder & Director of the Long Island International Film Festival and has started up many companies from consulting to development and planning stages to full management. He was the Editor and Publisher of Cinema World, a film magazine. Arcuri owned and operated a feature film library containing over 700 feature films, selling to the major cable networks and video cassette home markets in the 90's. He has authored over 70 screenplays and has consulted and budgeted over 20 feature films. Arcuri, is also a cinematographer and invented the Cineviewer, a pocket-able director's view finder.
- IMDb mini biography by: Lauren Levine