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Director

Cameron Labine

Bio

Cameron Labine grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where the discovery of his father's camcorder led to early collaborations with his two brothers on such cultclassics as The Adventures of Chung, and Chung II: The Return of Biggie. Desperate to find an outlet for their hyper-active children, Cam's parents signed the boys up with an acting agency and all three found some success as child actors. At 15, Cam was dragged kicking and screaming across the country to Maple Ridge, BC, where he attended a self-directed high school and quickly selfdirected himself away from academics and into theatre and video production. He was a founding member of a surprisingly successful teen comedy troupe, director of his high-school drama productions and a regular face on television shows such as The Commish, Sliders and The X-Files. While completing a BA in Film Studies at the University of British Columbia, Cam produced two award-winning 16mm shorts: Armageddon at the Office, a farcical vision of Judgement Day, and My Roomate is Turning into a Monster, a dark comedy about what happens to roommates when one of them joins a satanic cult. While at UBC, Cam forged lasting personal and professional relationships with classmates Dylan Akio Smith (Director: The Cabin Movie), James Liston (DP: Severed) and Julian Clarke (Editor: Postal). Cam was active in the Theatre Department, directing and acting in several plays, as well as video designing a massive multi-media production of Euripides' The Bacchae, at Vancouver's renowned Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Upon graduation, Cam dove into the Western Canadian independent film community, working as assistant director and assistant editor for Gary Burns (Waydowntown) and Bruce Sweeney (Last Wedding). He was the Assistant Programmer of international short films for CBC Television's ZeD, where he adjudicated thousands of short films as he continued writing and directing his own. His two non-student shorts, ROOM, a non-linear deconstruction of a clandestine affair, and Chemistry, about a pharmaceutically minded marriage councellor, have played festivals and have been broadcast nationally, receiving numerous awards, including the Leo Award for Best Short Screenplay, the Golden Sheaf Award for Best Canadian Director, and the Shavick Award for Best Emerging Filmmaker.  Cam's first feature film, Control Alt Delete, which premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2008, is an off-beat comedy once again starring his brother Tyler Labine (Reaper, Boston Legal, Invasion) as Lewis, a lonely programmer geek who discovers his sexua attraction to his computer. The script was born of Cam's fascination with technologically mediated lives and the phenomenon of internet pornography. It was produced with the generous assistance of Telefilm Canada and British Columbia Film by intrepid Kiwi producer, Stephanie Symns, and the inimitable director/producer Lynne Stopkewich who is Cam’s mentor and roommate. In his downtime, Cam is a ferocious basketball player, soulful guitar strummer and Food Network addict, cooking up beautifully garnished plates of what Stopkewich calls “vegetarian slop”. On special occasions, Cam DJ’s huge, honking house parties in the “Coov” -- mostly those he and Lynne throw when their neighbours calm down. Otherwise, Cam likes to root for losing teams, such at the Jays and the Canucks. I mean… how Canadian can you get?!

IMDb profile

Director- Job Description

The principal creative artist on a movie set. A director is usually (but not always) the driving artistic source behind the filming process, and communicates to actors the way that he/she would like a particular scene played. A director's duties might also include casting, script editing, shot selection, shot composition, and editing. Typically, a director has complete artistic control over all aspects of the movie, but it is not uncommon for the director to be bound by agreements with either a producer or a studio. In some large productions, a director will delegate less important scenes to a second unit director 2UD.