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James Douglas Cooper

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James shoots at East West Studios, Hollywood, CA.
Woman makes a radical break with the past searching for new forms of expression. Her desert oasis, Palm Springs, where she immerses herself in Mid-Century architectural surrounds suggest that everything that was once old, is new again. This is her Crystalline Dream.

Crystalline Dream is a creative collaboration between Farewell Fiancé and filmmaker James Cooper. Shot during Modernism Week in Palm Springs, this editorial is a celebration of the Modernist era and its philosophy of far reaching transformation.

Special thanks to composer Harlan Hodges and sound mixer Ryan Todd Garza for the epic original score.
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James Cooper is known for directing David Oyelowo in the award-winning noir short "206" shot in Brooklyn, New York City.

James was born in Sydney, Australia and began his filmmaking career as visual effects assistant at Garner MacLennan Design. Here he worked as a post production assistant on feature films "Rabbit Proof Fence", "The Quiet American" (both directed by Phillip Noyce), Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" and the Farscape television series. In Sydney he assisted on hundreds of television commercials, music videos, titles and indent design projects for Australian and New Zealand free to air and cable television networks. James then moved to be an assistant in the pre-vizualization department at Australia's Fox Studios on Baz Luhrmann's musical "Moulin Rouge!".

A musician as well as a filmmaker, around this time James also created a score for a friend's short film and recorded an extended play single with his band which went on to receive rotation on youth radio station Triple J. As a front man and performer in the band, James played hundreds of shows in and around the Sydney area. After completing his bachelor's degree in Visual Communications in Sydney, James spent several years in London as a record sleeve art director. He designed covers for hundreds of artists and groups including Paul McCartney and David Bowie. In London he experimented further with video and music as an art form and was hired by Universal Music to become a musical director and session musician for new groups. With Universal he toured Europe extensively as a performer. James became a creative consultant for many brands in Europe and created concepts for large scale advertising campaigns, music tours, and entertainment properties as an art director and creative technologist. James also began creating short films and distributing them online. Inspired by what the new advances in technology now allowed him to create, James then gained his certificate in filmmaking at Met Film School, Ealing Studios, London. Shortly after this he immersed himself in shooting, directing and editing an array of short web films and was subsequently signed as a director for commercials and content. He won an ICAD award in Dublin for his series of three mini-documentary films profiling Irish singer Fionn Regan for Universal Music.

James has since directed commercials, short films and content campaigns all over the world for leading brands Apple, Mercedes Benz, Disney Channel, Visit California and Adidas. James also edits much of his work and was lead editor on a Hulu mini-series 'The Driver' in 2017.

In 2018 and 2019 James was a resident screenwriter at Australians In Film at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood.

Along with film James continues to write and create music. He has released several albums. In 2006, "Beautiful As You", a song he co-wrote with Tim Freedman, front man to Australian group The Whitlams appeared on the double album "Little Cloud and the Apple's Eye" distributed by Warner Music. In 2007 a new, faster version of the song was recorded by the group to be released as a single. It would go on to become a top 10 single on the ARIA Australian Artists chart. The song was performed live by The Whitlams at the Australia Day Concert broadcast nationally around Australia on January 25th, 2007. He often married his musical experience with film and works closely with composer when scoring commercials or film.

James is also an exhibiting fine artist specializing in abstract expressionism. His paintings are held in private collections in the USA and Australia and he has been selected twice by world art experts to show as part of the Other Art Fair in both Sydney and Melbourne, presented by Saatchi Art.
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Brooke Harward & James Cooper attend the 60th AACTA Awards. The Star, Sydney, December 5th, 2018.
James Cooper attends the 7th Annual Australians In Film Gala, Paramount Studios, Los Angeles, 2018.
James Cooper directing talent on set in upstate New York.
Talia Rowley, Chloé Boreham and James Cooper arrive at the FlickerFest 2018, Opening Night Red Carpet Event
James Cooper attends the 7th Annual Australians In Film Gala, Paramount Studios, Los Angeles, 2018.
James shoots at East West Studios, Hollywood, CA.
Cinematographer Dean Cundey and James Douglas Cooper (Camera and Electrical) on the set of Freedom, 2012.
Cooper, interviewed on the red carpet. La Jolla, California, 2014.
Raquelle David, Rain Fuller and James Cooper at the 7th annual Australians In Film Gala, Paramount Studios, Los Angeles, 2018.
James Cooper on the red carpet at the 7th Annual Australians in Film Gala, Paramount Studios, Los Angeles, 2018.
James Cooper & designer Lauren Allik at Australians in Film 6th Annual Gala, Los Angeles

Known for

206 (2013)
206
7.4
Short
  • Director(as James Cooper)
  • 2013
Chloé Boreham in A Hundred Ways (2019)
A Hundred Ways
Short
  • Director(as James Cooper)
  • 2019
Crystalline Dream (2017)
Crystalline Dream
Short
  • Director(as James Cooper)
  • 2017
River Tigers: Giant Taimen of the Russian Far East (2021)
River Tigers: Giant Taimen of the Russian Far East
Short
  • Visual Effects(as James Cooper)
  • 2021

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Director

  • A Man Called FLAUM or Finding Love and Universal Mystics
    • Director
    • In Production
  • Chloé Boreham in A Hundred Ways (2019)
    A Hundred Ways
    • Director (as James Cooper)
    • Short
    • 2019
  • Apple: Emerging LA filmmakers
    • Director (as James Cooper)
    • Video
    • 2018
  • Crystalline Dream (2017)
    Crystalline Dream
    • Director (as James Cooper)
    • Short
    • 2017
  • 206 (2013)
    206
    • Director (as James Cooper)
    • Short
    • 2013
  • Abigail Breslin in The Screen Test (2013)
    The Screen Test
    • Director (as James Cooper)
    • Short
    • 2013
  • Fionn Regan in Fionn Regan: Bunkhouse Triptych - Part II (2012)
    Fionn Regan: Bunkhouse Triptych - Part II
    • Director (as James Cooper)
    • Short
    • 2012
  • Fionn Regan in Fionn Regan: Bunkhouse Triptych Part I (2012)
    Fionn Regan: Bunkhouse Triptych Part I
    • Director (as James Cooper)
    • Short
    • 2012
  • Have You Seen Simon? (2012)
    Have You Seen Simon?
    • Director (as James Cooper)
    • Short
    • 2012

Editor

  • A Man Called FLAUM or Finding Love and Universal Mystics
    • Editor
    • In Production
  • Helena Bonham Carter, Daniel Craig, David Tennant, David Walliams, Jimmy Akingbola, Olivia Colman, Regé-Jean Page, Aisling Bea, Tom Davis, Daisy May Cooper, Rosie Jones, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Cooper, and Guz Khan in Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas (2020)
    Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas
    • Editor (as James Cooper)
    • TV Special
    • 2020
  • Chloé Boreham in A Hundred Ways (2019)
    A Hundred Ways
    • Editor (as James Cooper)
    • Short
    • 2019
  • Apple: Emerging LA filmmakers
    • Editor (as James Cooper)
    • Video
    • 2018
  • Jeffrey Earnhardt in The Driver (2017)
    The Driver
    • Editor (as James Cooper)
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2017
  • If (2017)
    If
    • Editor (as James Cooper)
    • Short
    • 2017
  • Crystalline Dream (2017)
    Crystalline Dream
    • Editor (as James Cooper)
    • Short
    • 2017
  • Mercedes-Benz USA: Follow Your Own Star
    • Editor (as James Cooper)
    • Video
    • 2015
  • Fionn Regan in Fionn Regan: Bunkhouse Triptych - Part II (2012)
    Fionn Regan: Bunkhouse Triptych - Part II
    • Editor (as James Cooper)
    • Short
    • 2012
  • Fionn Regan in Fionn Regan: Bunkhouse Triptych Part I (2012)
    Fionn Regan: Bunkhouse Triptych Part I
    • Editor (as James Cooper)
    • Short
    • 2012
  • Have You Seen Simon? (2012)
    Have You Seen Simon?
    • Editor (as James Cooper)
    • Short
    • 2012

Visual Effects

  • River Tigers: Giant Taimen of the Russian Far East (2021)
    River Tigers: Giant Taimen of the Russian Far East
    • Titles Designer (as James Cooper)
    • Short
    • 2021
  • Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, and Thi Hai Yen Do in The Quiet American (2002)
    The Quiet American
    • motion graphics assistant: garner maclennan design (uncredited)
    • 2002
  • Laura Monaghan, Everlyn Sampi, and Tianna Sansbury in Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
    Rabbit-Proof Fence
    • motion graphics assistant: garner maclennan design (uncredited)
    • 2002
  • Liv Tyler, Sean Astin, Sean Bean, Elijah Wood, Cate Blanchett, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, and John Rhys-Davies in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
    The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
    • visual effects runner: garner maclennan design (uncredited)
    • 2001
  • Claudia Black, Ben Browder, and Virginia Hey in Farscape (1999)
    Farscape
    • visual effects runner: garner maclennan design (uncredited)
    • TV Series
    • 1999–2000

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Personal details

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    • James Cooper Official Site
    • James' Music Page on Spotify
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    • James Cooper
  • Other works
    In Pursuit of the Firebird - 13 Song, Full length album - Songwriter/Producer/Engineer/Musician/Singer (2012) Foreign Cities - 10 Song, Full length album - Songwriter/Producer/Engineer/Musician/Singer (2005) Second Season - 10 Song, Full length album - Songwriter/Musician/Singer

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    Designed 'The Best of David Bowie 1980/1987" album cover and sleeve.
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