A New Zealander based in Tokyo, James is a script reader and screenwriter. His short film Newtown was shot in Tokyo recently, and he is in the process of building a crime portfolio of television pilots and features. James has worked in front of the camera as an actor and stunt man in films and television, with a Masters degree in theatre he has worked across five continents. Most of his current material is based eith in Japan or New Zealand as his goal is to produce local language content that plays globally, but hes branching out into stories set across North America. His stories often center around mixed ethnicity families (as he is a father of two half Japanese boys and hes constantly having nightmares about his children being the victims of hate crime), and issues of being foreign, as he is an immigrant in a largely monoethnic country.
Currently working on
Short film trilogy centered around strong Asian female leads.
Four TV crime spec pilots
Three crime spec features
One war spec feature
