James DeLisio is a filmmaker and undergraduate student at the University of California, San Diego. He was a selected filmmaker in the 2023 Adam D. Kamil Media Awards, and received a Hometown Media Award from the Foundation for the Alliance of Community Media. His videographic criticism has been published online, as well as in collaborative works like the TV Dictionary. He is a moderator within The Essay Library, a collective where he helped organize two of the Essay Library Anthologies, which received honorary mentions from Sight & Sound in 2021. His filmmaking practice explores personal identity within grassroots communities, and his videographic criticism concerns themes of transnational cinema, generic intersections, and embodiment in film.
