James Belfer

Production

James Belfer

James Belfer is the Founder and CEO of Cartuna - a Brooklyn-based production company focused on animation, puppetry, DIY art and alt-comedy. Film credits include BY DESIGN, AJ GOES TO THE DOG PARK (Fantastic Fest 2024), STRAWBERRY MANSION (Sundance 2021), Sundance Special Jury Prize winner NUTS! (Sundance 2016), Berlinale Silver Bear winner PRINCE AVALANCHE (Sundance 2013), COMPLIANCE (Sundance 2012), Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner LIKE CRAZY, and SYLVIO

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Obex poster
6.0

Conor Marsh lives a secluded life with his dog, Sandy, until one day he begins playing OBEX, a new, state-of-the-art computer game. When Sandy goes missing, the line between reality and game blurs and Conor must venture into the strange world of OBEX to bring her home.

Obex

2026

The Romantics poster
4.9

Alliances are tested when seven college pals reunite to watch two of their own say “I do” at a seaside wedding. But the maid of honor and the groom share a passionate history, and the bride isn’t the only one who’s wondering if it’s all in the past.

The Romantics

2010

Moonfish poster
NR

A grieving astronaut who's lost his only companion on a deep-space mining mission must fulfill a strict corporate quota to return home. As his year of solitude passes, his grip on reality unravels the line between the living and non-living.

Moonfish

2026

Prince Avalanche poster
6.1

Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.

Prince Avalanche

2013

Nuts! poster
6.7

The true story of John Romulus Brinkley, a small-town Kansas doctor who discovers in 1917 that he can cure impotence by transplanting goat testicles into men. And that’s just the tipping point in this stranger-than-fiction tale. With the balls of a P.T. Barnum, the gonads of goats, and the wishful dreams of flaccid men, Brinkley amassed a fortune, was almost elected Governor of Kansas, invented junk mail and the infomercial, and built the world’s most powerful radio station. By the time all of the twists and turns of Brinkley’s story are revealed, Nuts! certainly earns its title.

Nuts!

2016

Like Me poster
5.7

After posting a video of herself robbing a convenience store, Kiya amasses a huge social media following. A reckless loner, she seeks some form of genuine human connection. Through her travels, she encounters a drifter, an Internet troll and a paint huffing outsider who are all pulled into her circle of chaos, junk food, and drugs.

Like Me

2018