James Cunningham (director)
- James Cunningham (director)
James Cunningham (born 1973) is a New Zealand Film Director and Animator. He has Directed and Written three award winning animated theatrical shorts.
Infection competed at Cannes International Film Festival 2000, Sundance Film Festival 2001 and 20 other international Film Festivals. Infection is the most successful short ever made by the New Zealand Film Commission in terms of sales and A-List Festival selection.
Delf was selected for the Saatchi & Saatchi new directors Global showcase in 2000 and won numerous awards. "Delf" is an acronym for "digitally engineered life forms".
Blinder was released theatrically in New Zealand with "In the Company of Men".
James is "Head of 3D" at one of New Zealand’s premiere Post Production houses, Digital Post [ [http://www.digipost.co.nz/ "Digipost: NZ Post-Production House"] ] where he works on high-level Television Commercial Visual Effects. Prior to this he was a Technical Director on The Lord of the Rings at Weta Digital. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography and a Master of Fine Arts in digital animation from Elam School of Fine Arts (Auckland, NZ).
James has nurtured a film-making partnership with Producer Paul Swadel that spans 14 years. James and Paul are developing an indie performance capture driven CGI film Marshal, and are currently post-producing a proof of concept short film Poppy, that was shot on the Weta Digital motion capture soundstage. Poppy features Matthew Sunderland Winner of Best Actor Award at the 2008 NZ Screen Awards [ [http://www.qantasfilmandtvawards.co.nz/index.asp?pageID=2145866164 "Matthew Sunderland – 2008 Awards"] ] .
James Cunningham is currently based in Auckland, New Zealand.
Filmography
Director
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245967/ Infection] (2000): Writer, Director
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388777/ Blinder] (1998): Writer, Director
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254259/ Delf] (1997): Writer, Director
Music Videos
* Drive, Strawpeople"' (2000): Director
* It's Not Enough, Strawpeople (2000): Director
* Signals, Elleven (2004): Director
External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0192333/ "James Cunningham: Internet Movie Database"]
References
Wikimedia Foundation.
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