About James
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Badges
2025-08-24
Writers' Room Member
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Awards
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Semi-finalist Creative Screenwriting Feature Screenplay Competition
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Semi-finalist Creative Screenwriting TV Pilot Competition
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Official Selection Sugarloaf Film Festival
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Best Feature Screenplay Sugarloaf Film Festival
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Quarter-finalist Page Turner Screenplays
(2025)
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Credits
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Silent Service (
2023 )
Television William D Collins -
Nihon Dokuritsu (
2020 )
Film Donald D Hoover -
Coin Lunch (
2018 )
Film (short) Jeff -
The Last Recipe (
2017 )
Film Russian Spy -
Kodomo Tsukai (
2017 )
Film Tommy
Loglines
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FLY BY NIGHT Budget: $0 - $100K | Crime ⋄ Mystery SERIES LOGLINE When a loan shark’s granddaughter disappears a failed private investigator must find her to repay his debts, as he attempts to pry and rekindle old flames he unearths more than he bargained for. PILOT LOGLINE In Tokyo’s underworld, a washed-up investigator drowning in gambling debt has one week to find the missing granddaughter of his murderous creditor, or disappear for good.
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BOBBY KNUX Budget: $1M - $5M | Sports Drama ⋄ Crime A disgraced, broken-down boxer must fight his way back into the ring, risking everything on one last bout to save his kidnapped daughter from men exploiting his downfall.
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TAKAO Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller / Suspense Haunted by her daughter’s suicide, a disgraced Tokyo detective commits a string of vigilante murders while embedding herself in the case to mislead colleagues hunting the killer she’s become.
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THE CLEANER Thriller / Suspense ⋄ Action Disguised as a maintenance worker, a grieving father crashes a political gala in Osaka’s tallest skyscraper, hunting the men who killed his son, only to uncover a brutal web of power, betrayal, and blood-soaked secrets.
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HANA Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller / Suspense ⋄ Crime After stumbling into the bloody robbery of a loan shark, a bullied suburban housewife must protect her unraveling family while staying ahead of both the criminals hunting her and the cops closing in.
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SHEARWATER Budget: $1M - $5M | Thriller / Suspense ⋄ Crime When his father is gunned down a Scottish crab boat captain is pulled back into a blood soaked legacy, forced to navigate between brutal gangs and buried loyalties before the family empire sinks for good.
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FEATHERSTON Thriller / Suspense ⋄ Crime In a quiet New Zealand town, a washed-up journalist uncovers a string of suspicious deaths tied to a WWII POW massacre, forcing him to expose a deadly cover-up by the town’s elite, before he’s buried with the truth.
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CHANTING MILLIONS Thriller / Suspense ⋄ Crime Haunted by his past, a disgraced ER doctor honors his mother’s dying wish and arrives in a brutal, isolated community, where uncovering the truth behind its blood-soaked secrets could cost him his life.
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CASTLEPOINT Thriller / Suspense ⋄ Crime When a drug deal goes wrong, a mother is forced into the criminal underworld and must outmaneuver ruthless cartels, corrupt cops, and rival gangs to protect her family before they destroy everything she loves.
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VOLK Thriller / Suspense ⋄ Crime When her daughter is abducted, an ER doctor moonlighting as a vigilante must hunt down the maniac responsible while playing a complicated game of cat and mouse with police determined to bring her to justice.
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THE NEW RIGHT Thriller / Suspense ⋄ Crime After serving time for a crime he didn’t commit, a reformed ex-convict returns to Tokyo to confront his estranged brother’s rise in a violent nationalist movement, only to uncover a conspiracy that threatens to tear the country apart.
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DIVISION 9 Horror ⋄ Crime A cynical Tokyo detective, haunted by his past, is forced into Division 9, a unit for “impossible cases," where a string of subway suicides draws him into a war between the living system that wants the case buried and the dead who won’t rest.
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JOSHI Thriller / Suspense A professional wrestler grows hellbent revenge when her daughter is sent to hospital after being attacked by a gang.
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FIFTH STREET Drama To regain custody of her daughter, a recovering addict challenges her mother-in-law to a winner-takes-all poker game match to win back custody of her daughter during a typhoon lockdown.
Education
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Victoria University of Wellington
(1997-2003)
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