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James Fall (born December 13, 1962)[1] is an American film and television director and film producer. He is best known as the director of Trick (1999) and The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003).[1][2][3][4]

Career

Fall’s directorial debut was the 1999 gay-themed independent film Trick,[1][2][3][4] which was picked up for North American distribution by Fine Line Features soon after its screening at the Sundance Film Festival,[5] where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.[1][6] The film also won the Siegessäule Special Jury Teddy Award at the Berlin International Film Festival,[7] and Outfest‘s Special Programming Committee Award for Outstanding Emerging Talent.

In 2003, Fall directed Disney‘s The Lizzie McGuire Movie.[1][3][4] He later directed several TV movies, including Wedding Wars (2006)[8][9] and the holiday-themed films Holiday Engagement (2011), Holly’s Holiday (2012) and Kristin’s Christmas Past (2013).[4][10] Fall’s award-winning short films He Touched Me and Love is Deaf, Dumb and Blind aired on the USA Network and Nickelodeon.[1]

In 2018, Fall announced Trick 2, a sequel to Trick which he had written and will direct.[6][11]

Fall’s television credits include episodes of Grosse Pointe (2000) and So NoTORIous (2006).[1][4] He has also had a career in theatre, directing a number of stage productions in New York City.[1]

Fall is an alumnus of Temple University and New York University‘s Tisch School of the Arts.[1][2]

Personal life

Fall is openly gay.[3] In 2006 he married his then-boyfriend on the Halifax, Nova Scotia set of Wedding Wars.[9]

Filmography

Director credits
Year Title Notes
1999 Trick[1][2][3][4] Independent film
2000 Grosse Pointe[1] TV series/Episode: “Puppet Master”
2000 Damaged Goods[1] TV series pilot
2003 The Lizzie McGuire Movie[1][3][4] Feature film
2006 So NoTORIous[4] TV series/Episodes: “Street” and “Accommodating”
2006 Wedding Wars[4][8][9] TV movie
2011 Holiday Engagement[4] TV movie
2012 Holly’s Holiday[4] TV movie
2013 Kristin’s Christmas Past[10] TV movie
TBA Trick 2[6][11] Feature film

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m “Jim Fall biography and filmography”. Tribute.ca. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
  2. ^ a b c d “Sundance Archives: 1999 Film Festival – Trick“. Sundance.org. Sundance Film Festival. Retrieved December 29, 2013.
  3. ^ a b c d e f Vary, Adam B. (May 13, 2003). “And for his next Trick … how Jim Fall, the out director of the sexy gay comedy Trick, went to work for Disney to make the family-friendly Lizzie McGuire Movie“. The Advocate. Retrieved December 20, 2013 – via TheFreeLibrary.com.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Halterman, Jim (December 7, 2012). “Exclusive: Director Jim Fall On His New Holiday Film And (Finally) The Trick Sequel”. TheBacklot.com. AfterElton.com. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
  5. ^ Hindes, Andrew; Carver, Benedict (January 26, 1999). “Trick pic treated to release by Fine Line”. Variety. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
  6. ^ a b c Voss, Brandon (September 15, 2018). “Hot Go-Go Boy From Trick Still Looks Sexy Shirtless in Sequel”. NewNowNext. Retrieved September 17, 2018.
  7. ^ “Teddy Award Winner: Trick“. Berlin International Film Festival. Retrieved September 17, 2018 – via teddyaward.tv.
  8. ^ a b “Wedding Wars: About the Movie”. AETV.com. A&E. Archived from the original on August 22, 2010. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
  9. ^ a b c Hundley, Jessica (November 20, 2006). “John Stamos pops our cork!”. The Advocate. Archived from the original on December 20, 2013. Retrieved December 20, 2013.
  10. ^ a b “Movie Details: Kristin’s Christmas Past“. LA Weekly. Archived from the original on December 20, 2013. Retrieved December 19, 2013.
  11. ^ a b Garner, Glenn (August 11, 2018). “Director Jim Fall Talks Trick 2 and 20 Years Since the Original”. Out. Retrieved September 17, 2018.