Jim Purdy is a Canadian feature film writer and director based in Toronto.  He studied film and theatre at York University. In the 1970s, he worked in the Toronto professional theatre scene, helping run the NDWT Theatre Company and the Bathurst Street Theatre.             Jim’s first TV script turned into the CBC primetime drama series Home Fires(1980-83). Jim went on to write all 31 hour-long episodes of the popular series.             In the late 1980s, Jim shifted TV to feature films when his first feature screenplay was produced in 1988: Concrete Angels–“… an astonishingly sensitive and realistic study of a summer in the lives of 12- and 13-year working class boys who form a band …” (Jay Scott, Globe and Mail).             Jim shifted to directing and writing in his subsequent feature films, Destiny to Order(1990)– “… a pulp culture farce of the first order” Bruce Kirkland, Toronto Sun,andForeign Bodies (1993) – “… a keen attention to dramatic detail and a profound sympathy for the plight of the main character …” Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star.  Jim has subsequently written and directed the Canada-Cuba feature co-production Havana 57(2013) and a drama about polyamorous lovers in More Than One(2016).