Jim Cushinery

A Year of Living Stupidly (2008)
Television Writer/Director

Blue, Bunny
Film (short) Writer/Director A parody of the film Roger Ebert dubbed the "worst film to ever play the Cannes film festival."

The Quota
Writer/Director With their jobs on the line, dead animal pickup technicians Lucy and Viv (Susan Ruttan and Jenica Bergere) struggle to meet their quota until they answer a call from a serial killer (Dan Klass).

Play Date Comedy ⋄ Crime After losing their jobs, a married couple illegally adopts a preteen orphan to pose as their daughter in order to get work, only to end up embroiled in a kidnapping scheme with the girl's birth mother and a shady social worker.

Blessed Comedy After being “cancelled” by his progressive Atlanta megachurch for his polyfidelitous family and outspoken theology, Pastor Rene Chisholm takes over a struggling, ultra-conservative Baptist congregation in rural Utah — a town packed with closeted “others” who fear exactly the kind of people God keeps sending them.

The Monster Rule Book Action ⋄ Fantasy Sixth-grader saves the world from a monster uprising.

Goes Around Comedy ⋄ Romance After 30 years of pining for his lost love, a songwriter gets an unexpected second chance when his daughter announces she's marrying the son of "New Girl" - the woman who broke his heart and inspired his successful book about their brief but intense romance.

How We Do Drama The wealthy and the struggling; The black, brown, and white; The queer and the straight; The far right and the far left all collide when couples desperately clinging to marriage let go of fidelity.