About me
JAMES FINO is a founding partner of Starburns Industries, Inc. He served as executive producer on the Emmy award-winning stop-motion special, ABED’S UNCONTROLLABLE CHRISTMAS, for NBC’s comedy COMMUNITY as well as Adult Swim’s stop-motion series, MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENHOLE and BEFOREL OREL. Fino assembled a fierce animation team and pushed the envelope of TV animation for Adult Swim’s RICK AND MORTY before continuing to executive produce Starburns Industries’ first documentary feature, HARMONTOWN, its first stop-motion feature and Oscar nominated, ANOMALISA, HBO’s animated series, ANIMALS, and VRV’s live action/animated series, HARMONQUEST. Recent projects include Hulu’s PEN15 animated special, Tubi’s THE FREAK BROTHERS, the Mexican gothic horror series, WOMAN IN THE BOOK for Facebook Watch, SLIPPIN’ JIMMY animated shorts based on AMC’s BETTER CALL SAUL, and the Zhubin Parang pilot, ACQUITTERS, with Jason Alexander for Comedy Central.
James loves old school Star Wars, Horror movies and is a graduate of UT Austin, class of 1988 (yes, he’s that old) double majoring in RTF and Advertising. He is a founding member of the Producers Guild of America: New Media Council, and an instructor for the UTLA program, first instructing the New Media and Emerging Entertainment course and currently the Animation Production Pipelines course.