James Shanks

James shot his first film at the age of six, using his father's 8mm cine camera. Since then, he has gone on to write, shoot and direct over twenty short films and three feature films, including the film noir comedy 'Inciting Murder..?', the supernatural thriller Devil's Harvest (2003)) starring Brian Blessed and more recently the comedy drama Stag Hunt (2015). He has also written several films including the UK version of _Gamera (1997)_ as well as Welcome 2 Ibiza (2003), starring Gary Busey and Mackenzie Astin, in which he was also the movie's cinematographer. James is one half of Dog Face Films which has been successfully producing films and music promos for over fifteen years. In his spare time he enjoys annoying his Dog Face partner 'Neil Craske' whenever possible.