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Jason Howden | |
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| Born | Greymouth, New Zealand |
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| Years active | 2001–present |
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Jason Howden is a New Zealand film director and visual effects artist.
Howden was born and raised in Greymouth, New Zealand. He left high school at age 17 to pursue a career in the entertainment industry.
Aged 17, Howden began working as a television cameraman and editor at a local television station in Nelson. He began his directing career with his short film Automaton in 2005. Howden wrote and directed his debut feature Deathgasm in 2014. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] The film won several awards at Toronto After Dark Film Festival and other international film festivals. [9]
Between 2017 and 2018, Howden wrote the feature film Guns Akimbo , and an adaptation of video game Dead Island . In 2019, he directed Guns Akimbo, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Samara Weaving, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2019. The film was released in New Zealand on 5 March 2020 by Madman Entertainment. [10] [11] [12] [13]
In September 2022, Howden was set to direct an adaptation of Monsters of Metal, based on the comics he had written with Llexi Leon. The director was also attached as a co-writer along with Leon.
Since 2001, Howden has been working as a visual effects artist on films. He has worked on visual effects in several Hollywood movies, including The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies , The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug , The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey , Man of Steel , Gods of Egypt , and War for the Planet of the Apes , among others. [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]
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