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David Dozoretz

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  • Visual Effects
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David Dozoretz
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David Dozoretz directed and co-wrote Liverpool BOLOFEST 2020, 2021 and 2022 virtual Christmas parade TV shows and commercial campaigns, which included original animated content from LEGO, Star Wars, Marvel, Batman, Disney, Barbie, Paw Patrol, Hot Wheels and more, and was seen by over 50 million viewers.

Dozoretz also created, directed and was show-runner for two seasons of the NBCUniversal worldwide-distributed ZAFARI, a children's animated show that celebrates diversity and was the first TV show ever produced exclusively in the Unreal real-time game engine. Unreal is now utilized regularly in virtual production stages and real-time animation. Dozoretz was awarded Infinity's "Best Use of a Game Engine in a TV Show" and he is a frequent consultant for use of the Unreal engine for content creation.

He acted as Second Unit Director on New Line's Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D, the first ever digital stereoscopic feature and Visual Effects Supervisor on a number of feature films. Before that, while at ILM, Lucasfilm and then his own company Persistence of Vision, Dozoretz helped pioneer the now industry standard pre-visualization process on tentpole franchises such as multiple Star Wars and Mission: Impossible films, Star Trek, Jurassic Park, Forrest Gump and more.

Dozoretz has lectured at UCLA and USC Film Schools, Art Center, the Gnomon School of Visual Effects, the Australian Film, Television, and Radio School, and Tokyo's Digital Hollywood Institute. Articles with with him have appeared in Wired, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, American Cinematographer, Cinefex, Animation World Network, CartoonBrew and more. He is a member of the Director's Guild of America, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and the Visual Effects Society. He holds patents for television interface and industrial design.
BornMay 28, 1971
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David Dozoretz

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Anthony Daniels, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, James Earl Jones, David Prowse, and Kenny Baker in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
8.6
  • Visual Effects(1997 special version, ILM)
  • 1977
Zafari (2018)
Zafari
7.5
TV Series
  • Director
Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Mission: Impossible III
6.9
  • Visual Effects
  • 2006
Star Trek (2009)
Star Trek
7.9
  • Visual Effects
  • 2009

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  • Bolo Fest: El desfile navideño de Liverpool 2022. (2022)
    Bolo Fest: El desfile navideño de Liverpool 2022.
  • Bolo Fest: El desfile navideño de Liverpool 2021.
  • Bolo Fest: El desfile navideño de Liverpool (2020)
    Bolo Fest: El desfile navideño de Liverpool
    • (directed by)
  • Zafari (2018)
    Zafari

Writer

  • Bolo Fest: El desfile navideño de Liverpool 2022. (2022)
    Bolo Fest: El desfile navideño de Liverpool 2022.
  • Bolo Fest: El desfile navideño de Liverpool 2021.
  • Bolo Fest: El desfile navideño de Liverpool (2020)
    Bolo Fest: El desfile navideño de Liverpool
  • Zafari (2018)
    Zafari
    • ...

Visual Effects

  • Megalopolis
    • In Production
  • Akira
    • In Production
  • Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Mélanie Laurent, Mark Ruffalo, and Dave Franco in Now You See Me (2013)
    Now You See Me
    • (uncredited)
  • Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Brad Bird, Mike Dopud, Josh Holloway, Anil Kapoor, Vitaly Kravchenko, Pavel Kríz, Vladimir Mashkov, Michael Nyqvist, Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, Ivan Shvedoff, Mihály Szabados, Ilia Volok, Tom Wilkinson, Andreas Wisniewski, Miraj Grbic, Michelle Monaghan, Brian Caspe, Paul Lazenby, Stephen Lobo, Paula Patton, Roger Narayan, Léa Seydoux, Ali Olomi, and Jessica Belkin in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
    Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
  • Super 8 (2011)
    Super 8
    • (uncredited)
  • Battle Los Angeles (2011)
    Battle Los Angeles
  • Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake in Yogi Bear (2010)
    Yogi Bear
  • Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, Jon Favreau, and Tracy Morgan in G-Force (2009)
    G-Force
  • Star Trek (2009)
    Star Trek
  • Brendan Fraser and Josh Hutcherson in Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
    Journey to the Center of the Earth
  • Dustin Hoffman and Natalie Portman in Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)
    Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
    • (uncredited)
  • John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson in 1408 (2007)
    1408
  • Unearthed (2007)
    Unearthed
  • Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Robert Carlyle, Sienna Guillory, and Ed Speleers in Eragon (2006)
    Eragon
  • Famke Janssen, Halle Berry, Kelsey Grammer, Anna Paquin, Patrick Stewart, Ben Foster, James Marsden, Hugh Jackman, and Elliot Page in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
    X-Men: The Last Stand
  • Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible III (2006)
    Mission: Impossible III
  • Rick Cramer in Venom (2005)
    Venom

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BOLOFEST 2020
Demo Reel 2:32
BOLOFEST 2020
ZAFARI Behind the Scenes with Epic's Unreal
Demo Reel 3:23
ZAFARI Behind the Scenes with Epic's Unreal

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    • May 28, 1971
    • Phoenix, Arizona, USA

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