James G Wright
- Writer
An award-wining American investigative reporter and editor for more than forty years, James G. Wright studied screenwriting during a year-long Knight Wallace academic fellowship at the University of Michigan. His inaugural feature screenplay, action/drama Half of What You See, was a Middlebury Script Lab selection and lead to a project collaboration deal with Oscar-nominated screenwriters Hawk Ostby and Mark Fergus.
Half of What You See and his political dark comedy feature, Flyover State, have won accolades from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship and the Austin Film Festival, as well as other top screenplay competitions.
As a journalist he is best known for his role in leading the investigation that exposed casino magnate Sheldon Adelson's secret purchase of the Las Vegas Review-Journal and covert efforts to undermine the Nevada judiciary, as recounted in the 2017 documentary Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press.
Wright now supervises South Asia coverage for the international Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.