2024–2025 · Film selection · Maryland Film Festival
Maryland Film Festival · screening committee
Alex volunteered on the festival’s 2024 and 2025 screening committees, assessing experimental and avant-garde submissions.
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James A. Burkhalter
Filmmaker · Screenwriter · Educator
Connection with Alex
James and Alex are connected through the Maryland Film Festival and SNF Parkway. Alex served on the festival’s volunteer screening committee for the 2024 and 2025 editions; James works in festival programming.
Work & recognition
Projects, programmes and milestones. Each entry explains its relationship and attribution.
3 entries
In commonFilm selection
Wider workSelected work
2022 · Selected work · Maryland Institute College of Art
F^¢K ’EM R!GHT B@¢K
Produced the short film, an official selection at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.
Wider workScreenwriting prize
16th competition · Screenwriting prize · Maryland Institute College of Art
Last Call
The screenplay placed second in the Baltimore Film Office’s 16th screenwriters competition.
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About & links
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Bio
Biography
James A. Burkhalter is a Baltimore filmmaker, screenwriter and educator. His work spans documentary and narrative film, with attention to queer life and personal experience. He teaches in MICA’s film programmes and is listed by SNF Parkway as festival programming coordinator.
Bio
Approach & practice
His films move between documentary portraits and fictional stories; his professional work also includes screenwriting, producing and film education.
Experience
Teaching · Listed October 2026
Film education at MICA
Part-time faculty member teaching within MICA’s undergraduate and graduate film programmes.
Experience
Festival role · Listed October 2026
SNF Parkway / Maryland Film Festival
Listed on the organization’s staff as festival programming coordinator.
Education
2021 · Maryland Institute College of Art
MFA in Filmmaking
Maryland Institute College of Art, class of 2021.
Education
Maryland Institute College of Art
Documentary film studies & English
Dual bachelor’s degrees from Gettysburg College.
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MICA filmmaker biography
Filmography, education and teaching.
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SNF Parkway team
Festival programming and the organization’s staff.
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Maryland Film Festival
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