Makichuk, Jim

Jim Makichuk was born and raised in Canada and got his first job at a local TV station where he worked on a TV news crew in the Windsor/Detroit area. After attending a film course he moved to Vancouver and filmed and co-produced a short film directed by Phil Borsos. It won numerous international awards and was a finalist in the 1976 Academy Awards. In 1980 he wrote, produced and directed his first feature, Ghostkeeper which had it's 30th anniversary DVD in 2012. Jim moved to Los Angeles in 1990 and worked on 50 or more screenplays, of which 20 were produced as well as 30 hours of episodic. Cur...