About Jamal James Hodge
Jamal James Hodge is a Native New Yorker who grew up surrounded by the perils of poverty, the diversity of multiple overlapping cultures, and the harmonious circus of 6 siblings. He is a multi-award-winning film director whose one obsession is exploring the great ‘Why?’ inside each of us.
Jamal loves the broken things that want to be understood, and the secret things that never bothered to hide. With his writing he hopes to uncover the paradox between suffering and meaning, to use darkness to show light.
When he’s not writing or filming, Jamal Hodge is traveling to odd locales, volunteering at some community organization, or in the gym working out to a near-death experience.
He fancies himself a pretty cool guy.
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Jamal is a multi-award-winning filmmaker and a Bram Stoker Award Nominated Writer. A festival veteran of Cannes, Tribeca, Sundance, The Chelsea Film Festival, The Hip Hop Film Festival, ABFF, and many others, Jamal has directed the first season of Investigation Discovery Channel's ‘Primal Instinct’ (2018), was a director/producer for the PBS doc-series, ‘Southern Storytellers’ (2022), directed episode 5 of ‘The Table’ on Black Oak TV (2024) ith contributions as a producer and story editor of the series. He is also a director/producer of the docu-series Madness And Writers: The Untold Truth… Maybe? (2025), the comedic thriller series Ingeniuses (2025), and the romantic dramedy Typecast (2025). Jamal is a producer on the Animated feature film 'Pierre the Pigeon Hawk' (2026) starring Snoop Dog, Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Coolidge, and Whoopi Goldberg, and the upcoming indie feature films Savants & Savages (2025). He has directed over 12 short films and garnered over 100 film festival awards.
An active member of the HWA and SFPA, his writing works are in anthologies with notable writers such as Stephen King, Chuck Palahniuk, Stephen Graham Jones, Alma Katsu, and Josh Malerman. Jamal has earned Rhysling Award nominations in 2021, 2022, and 2024, with his poem "Colony" winning 2nd place at the 2022 Dwarf Stars. His book, The Dark Between the Twilight, debuted as the #1 hot new American Poetry Release and was nominated for a 2024 Bram Stoker award. His anthology, Bestiary of Blood: Modern Fables & Dark Tales (2024), launched as the #1 New Horror Anthology Release on Amazon and features 18 Bram Stoker award-winning writers. His newest poetry book, Everything Endless (2025), is a collaboration with Grand Master Linda D. Addison and is published by Raw Dog Screaming Press.
