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NEWS photo Neil Lucente

ACTION DIRECTOR James Head has come a long way since studing photography in Aiberta.
Here he sets up the next shot on FOX's new series Mantis, which is being filmed on the Lower

Mainland.

No shortage o7 work
for NV movie director

James Head enjoys success in local film industry

HEN AMERICAN

movie and televi-

sion makers moved
north, locals were concerned
that Americans, not
Canadians, would fill the
industry’s jobs.

By Kevin Gillies
Spotlight Feature

But Canadians have been mak-
ing great and frequent strides in
the movie and television industry,
proving early fears to be unfound-
ed. Canadians have gone head-to-
head with American film produc-
tion ro and proven to be
equal to the task.

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North Vancouver’s James
Head is one who is leading the
pack. With the. Lower Mainland
now the third most filmed-in city
in North America (behind New
York and Los Angeles) the 42-
year-old director is one of the
most sought-after in his field.

This Past year he has been sec-
ond-unit action director for ABC

TV's The Commish and was sec- -

ond-unit director of photography
for 20 episodes of The X-Fifes. He
also directed the 15-minute inde-
pendent film The Shoot-out and
the pilot The Rock Pirates.

There is so much employment
available to him that this summer
he has spent as much as 80 hours
a week working on the Walt
Disney feature film Man 2 Man

(which stars, in no particular
order, Chevy Chase, Chief
Leonard George, Farrah Fawcett
and George Wendt) and the new
FOX television series Mantis. His
work on the latter is as second-
unit action director.

He has come a long way since
he studied still photography at the
Banff School of Fine Arts in the
mid-1970s.

“t looked at going to school
and finishing a law degree. |
didn’t like the prospects and/or
like what | thought 1 might
become so | decided I'd go try
photography. !t was the only thing
t had; | had a camera, kinda liked
it and thought ‘well why not?’ ”

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