James Earl O'Brien

James Earl OBrien has done postproduction work on a number of award winning short films and has also produced and edited independent features TV series documentaries and commercial productions In 1999 James was one of the founding members of a collective called RantMedia that focused on producing digital media for distribution across the Internet RantMedia and its projects have been written about in Wired Spin Magazine and The Globe and Mail In 2003 he produced a multicamera live Internet broadcast called The Sean Kennedy TV Show which ran for 20 episodes and was an early innovator in streaming TV content over the Internet This project got the attention of the New York Times and the Georgia Straight In 2004 and 2008 James filmed and edited twenty six episodes of an online TV series titled Patrolling which appeared on community TV stations in the US and on the satellite station SkyTV in the UK In 2010 his editing and production work for the animated short film Tales from the Afternow Little Rocks won him several awards including Best Audio Design at the Vancouver Short Film Festival and Best Animation Science Fiction at the DragonCon Independent Short Film Festival in Atlanta Georgia Also he was editor and sound designer on the Japanese language film Chishio which garnered both the Audience Choice Award and Best Cinematography award at Bloodshots 2012 His current projects include editing and producing the feature documentary A Perfect 14 the ambitious scifi short Rachaels Mutt as well as editing the feature documentary No Way Out about long term drug users living in Vancouvers Downtown Eastside