Bio

Jimmie Kadaver is an Austin-based filmmaker who has called the city home since 2009. A lifelong fan of genre cinema, he began his career writing for Gorezone.net before realizing his true passion was behind the camera. After studying film at UT Austin, Jimmie honed his eye in the city’s vibrant queer nightlife, photographing and filming local performers and stars from RuPaul’s Drag Race, The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula, The Voice, and the YouTube series Camp Wannakiki. His photography has been featured in The Austin Chronicle, Gay Times, and numerous online publications.

Jimmie’s first project as director of photography, the short film M is for Mindmeld (2013), was acquired by Drafthouse Films and included in the anthology feature The ABCs of Death 2.5 (2016). He has since shot a number of guerrilla-style queer horror shorts that screened at drag shows and indie festivals in Austin and Portland, experiences that shaped his bold, DIY approach to cinematography. Building on that foundation, he has continued to explore music videos and narrative work. He photographed the short, One Night Cherub (2025), directed by Austin King that premiered at Atlanta Underground Film Festival, and featured in Fantastic Fest 2025 in Austin. In 2021, he reunited with M is for Mindmeld writer/director B.C. Glassberg to shoot his first feature, Cain Came Home, which will premiere at Amazing Fantasy Fest in Buffalo, New York in September 2025.