Jamal Hodge
JAMAL HODGE is a multi-award-winning filmmaker and writer from Bronx NYC. Since May of 2016, his films have been an official selection in over 100 Film Festivals. They have won over 70 awards including The Vanguard Award (Best of The Fest) at the Hip Hop Film Festival (2020), Best Director at The Chelsea Film Festival (2020), and Best Director at Genre Blast (2020), with screenings at Tribecca Film Festival, Sundance, and the Cannes Short Film Corner.
Jamal has directed the first season of Investigation Discovery Channel's Primal Instinct'. He has come on as a Producer on the Animated feature film 'Pierre The Pigeon Hawk' (starring Will.I.Am, Jennifer Hudson, and Whoopi Goldberg). He is co-directing a PBS docuseries called Southern Storytellers (2022) with Peabody-winning director Craig Renaud and is the Show Runner on two comedy series: INGENIUSES and TYPE CAST.
As a writer, Hodge is an active member of The Horror Writer's Association and the SFPA, being nominated for a 2021 & 2022 Rhysling Award for his Poems 'Fermi's Spaceship' and 'Loving Venus', While his poem 'The Silence of God' placed in the 2021 Horror Writer Association Showcase and 'Colony' made the 2022 Dwarf Stars. His poetry is featured in the Anthology CHIRAL MAD 5 alongside such legends as STEPHEN KING and LINDA ADDISON.
Recently, Hodge has come on as co-editor on the historical book 45 BLACK MEN IN HORROR. You can find his written work featured in the historical all-black issue of Star*line Magazine (issue 43.4) SPACE AND TIME Magazine, HYBRID: Misfits, Monsters & Other Phenomena, PENUMBRIC Speculative Fiction Magazine, Savage Planets, and many others. His movie Mourning Meal won the best short screenplay at The NYC Horror Film Festival (2018).
Jamal Hodge, Josh Malerman and Michael Bailey on set in Franklin, MI
The premier for NECESSARY EVIL was a hit! Jamal’s direction was spot on.
Director/Producer
“We must be courageous enough, to be vulnerable enough, to tell the deepest truths of the soul. Then, we might find, that the things that are most personal are the most universal and that our deepest pains may move others to growth, then to progress, then to happiness. It all starts with courage. Live brave.”
- Jamal Hodge
A Gypsy Life... Productions
Madness and Writers: The Untold Truth. Maybe?
Executive Producers: Velva Carter-Maloof and David Maloof
Directed by: Jamal Hodge
Starring: Lukas Hassel
Featuring: Josh Malerman, Linda D. Addison and Michael Bailey
Producers: Velva Carter-Maloof, David Maloof, Michael Bailey, Jamal Hodge & D. M. Rheingold
Screenwriter: Michael Bailey and L. Marie Wood
Casting: Cherry Weiner
Cinematographer: Kalani Mackson
Sound: Ruben D. Morales
Costume Props: Allison Laakko
Associate Producer: Linda D. Addison
Illustrator: L A Spooner