Jim Haverkamp grew up in Iowa and lives in Durham, NC. His short fiction and documentary films have screened around the world, including the London Underground Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and the Chicago Underground Film Festival. He has toured on the Southern Circuit of Independent Film and was co-organizer of the Strange Beauty Film Festival. Jim also teaches for Duke University's Department of Cinematic Arts and is co-conspirator at Shadowbox Studio in Durham.