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WRITER, FILMMAKER & TEACHER
ABOUT
John Hulme is a writer and filmmaker from Highland Park, NJ. He is the co-author of five books, including The Seems, a trilogy of fantasy novels from Bloomsbury Children’s Books.
He directed the award-winning documentaries Unknown Soldier: Searching For a Father (HBO) and Blood, Sweat & Tears: A Basketball Exorcism.
He also co-created the original radio drama, Vanishing Point (NPR, XM Radio). He built the Highland Park African American History Project — a multimedia oral history of his hometown's black community — which was funded by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. The Project’s first documentary, Blacked Out, won the Best Youth Film award at the 2018 Harlem International Film Festival. Hulme's first feature length horror screenplay, Bagman (Lionsgate/Temple Hill) will premiere in theaters on September 27, 2024, and his original True Crime Horror podcast, No Man's Land, is now available on all podcast platforms.
Hulme is also an adjunct professor at Rutgers University, where he teaches Documentary Filmmaking and Introduction to Multimedia.
JOHNS PORTFOLIO
PORTFOLIO
BOOKS
FILM & VIDEO
Do NJ Prisons Still Use Solitary Confinement?
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Do NJ Prisons Still Use Solitary Confinement?
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Unknown Soldier: Searching For A Father
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Bagman (2024) Official Trailer - Sam Claflin, Antonia Thomas
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Unknown Soldier Trailer
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Blood, Sweat & Tears: A Basketball Exorcism -- Trailer
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Blacked Out
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Film
CURRENT PROJECTS
CURRENT PROJECTS
NO MAN'S LAND
An original true crime/horror podcast
A seven-part investigation into a mysterious section of woods in central New Jersey. Supposedly haunted, it has a terrible history of violence dating back to the 1600s, replete with horrific murders and mass suicide.
What makes these stories so frightening is that all contain disturbingly similar elements of the supernatural. Each episode of this podcast will focus on one of these infamous tales, in hopes of proving once and for all whether No Man’s Land is indeed infested with an evil presence.
HIGHLAND PARK AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY PROJECT
A multimedia effort to capture the oral history of the African-American community in Highland Park, NJ. This digital archive of personal narratives and short films is being created entirely by the students of Highland Park High School.
The HPAAHP has just resumed shooting a new documentary about the state-mandated desegregation of the school system in 1979, and how the ensuing controversy that took place continues to ripple through the town today.
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