Destination: Bangalore is Jim Kerns' third documentary film.   Destination: Bangalore has been featured at the Indo-American Film Festival in New York City, Globians International Festival in Potsdam, Germany and the Cinequest Online film festival in San Jose, CA.

Destination: Bangalore has been shown at universities in Canada, The U.S., Australia, and England. It was featured at a symposium at Rutgers University entitled "Outsourcing and Globalization in India" in 2006 and at Michigan State University's "Southeast Asian Studies conference" in October of 2007 . The film has become part of numerous university and public library collections, including Duke University and the New York Public Library.

In addition, FilmWest & Associates, an educational video distributor based in Vancouver, Canada, has agreed to distribute the film to secondary schools in Canada and the U.S., and video-on-demand distributor, Jaman.com, named Destination: Bangalore one of its "Best Films of 2007".

Destination: Bangalore is the first of a three-part series on the impact of global events of individual communities.

Jim's previous documentaries, Four American Lives (1996) examined the myth of the American dream in the eyes of a cook, taxi driver, hairdresser and nurse. The Tunnel Singer (1999) documented singer Lee Ellen Shoemaker, a woman who makes music in tunnels around Northern California.

In addition, he has made the two shorts: China Waves (2002) , a meditation on the continuous motion of Modern China and Hands On Head (2003) , a dark-comedic look at a father-son relationship. In 2004, Hands On Head was shown at the San Francisco Underground Festival and the NotShortEnough Film Festival.

Mr. Kerns has written two plays which have been produced in San Francisco. The Seaweed Diaries was part of the 1999 Absurdist festival at the EXIT Theater and Poetry in Linguini appeared at the Marsh Theater in 1998.

He has also shown his photography in shows throughout the Bay Area including the Artizmo Gallery in San Rafael, California and CellSpace in San Francisco. His photos have appeared in TravelGirl magazine and Bay Area Parent. In 2005, he was awarded an honorable mention prize in the Santa Fe Center for the Arts Singular Image Contest for his photograph, Innocence.

Jim works as a journalist, photographer, graphic designer and corporate videographer. He currently lives in San Francisco and runs a small media production company.

He holds a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from Indiana University and an M.A. in Humanities from Arizona State University.