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James makes films that ask us to pause, question and reflect on our place in the world. His directing and producing credits include Sounding Things Out (2025), a sonic exploration of the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, the WWF-commissioned short Tam Mỹ Tây (2023), a Runner-Up in the Documentary Shorts Category at Films for the Forest, and A Journey Without a Map (2019), a study of plantation forestry in Uganda acquired by the National Geographic Short Film Showcase.

Pivoting into creatively bolder and ambitious projects, his debut feature documentary on the urgent and unending legacy of nuclear weapons testing, Nucleus, is supported by Screen Scotland. In 2024-25, James was Filmmaker in Residence at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital, a pioneering project that enabled psychiatric patients and NHS staff to co-create short films. Based out of Evergreen Studio in Edinburgh, James is the founder of Melt Films LTD.