James Peniata, filmmaker portrait provided to AFIN.

James Peniata

Director at AFIN

Australia (from their AFIN films)

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Biography

James is an actor and director born in Sydney, Australia, on March 13, 1989. He is known for his role as Oscar Novat in the supernatural slasher 'Silent Eyes' and as Isiah Cloud in the digital Series 'Atomic Kingdom'. In 2007 James enrolled into Participate Film Academy where he studied for a year, graduating in early 2008. He works consistently both in front of and behind the camera. At the age of twenty four he had already completed directing four feature films.

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