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James Oakley
Some catch the film bug early and hard, and New York-based writer/director James Oakley falls squarely into this category. Growing up working on sets—his grandfather produced television shows—and introduced to the work of maestros like Robert Altman, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Brian De Palma at an impressionable age, the Tennessee-born, New York-based director attended NYU’s Cinema Studies Program and the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Oakley has directed both short and long-form videos and films, most recently the noir-tinged Devil You Know, starring Lena Olin and Rosamund Pike; he also consults for fashion, design and film companies. He is currently filming his second feature, based on the play La Ronde (Arthur Schnitzler’s examination of sexual transgression in fin-de-siècle Vienna) and prepping his third, Stories from the News, for which he wrote the script. In his spare time, Oakley is cooking up a little film for the fashion line Loden Dager.
Photo by David Armstrong, 2010
