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Jim Emerson
1977-present
Writer
- Articles and reviews have appeared in The Seattle Times, The Los Angeles Times, Premiere, Film Comment, The Orange County Register (Knight-Ridder syndication), Men’s Journal, Savvy, Pacific Northwest Magazine, The Rocket, The Seattle Weekly, The Seattle Sun, Amazon.com, Microsoft Cinemania, America Online's Entertainment Asylum and many other newspapers, magazines, and websites.
1998 - present Cinema Enterprises
Group Seattle, WA
Editorial Director, major film reference website/magazine
- Developing editorial vision and resources for a new film-related website (in development; details confidential at present) to launch in 1999.
1994-1998 (June) Microsoft
Seattle, WA
Senior Editor, Microsoft Cinemania (CD-ROM and website)
- Developed overall editorial vision for award-winning, best-selling CD-ROM and expanded it into an award-winning website, working with a team of developers, designers, proofers, testers, and others.
- Negotiated and managed relationships with outside writers and "content providers," including Roger Ebert, Leonard Maltin, Baseline, CineBooks.
- Conceived and wrote multimedia features, reviews, columns, and managed editorial staff.
1993-1994 Walt Disney Co.
Burbank, CA
Co-screenwriter, "It’s Pat: The Movie"
- Developed and co-wrote screenplay for Disney motion picture.
- Acted as associate producer (uncredited) during editing and post-production.
- Member of Writers Guild of America.
1987-1993 Orange County Register
Los Angeles, CA
Film Critic and columnist
- Wrote reviews, features, interviews, and columns about the movies while based in Los Angeles for third-largest daily newspaper in California - nationally syndicated through Knight-Ridder.
- Member of Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
1984-1987 Market Theater
Seattle, WA
Programming director
- Booked single-screen independent "art house" movie theater
in Seattle’s historic Pike Place Market.
Also a co-director of Seattle International Film Festival, 1982-1987.
Education
1975-1980 University of Washington English Literature
