Albert Pyun

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Albert Pyun (* 1954 in Hawaii, USA ) is an American director of numerous B and C films .

Life

Pyun grew up in Hawaii where he started making his first films with a 16 mm camera at the age of 14 . At the age of 18, he traveled to Japan , where he trained as a film editor and cameraman and became Akira Kurosawa's assistant . He later returned to Hawaii and worked on various documentaries and commercials . In 1976 he moved to Los Angeles . He made his debut as a director with the film Talon in the Fight against the Empire in 1982. Numerous films followed, the best known being the Nemesis series and Cyborg with Jean-Claude Van Damme in the leading role. In 2006, he filmed the Lovecraft novella Cool Air as a direct-to-video production , which celebrated its first cinema premiere in 2012 as part of the Estepona International Film Festival.

His professional career as a director is divided into different film genres . Pyun began in the early eighties with more fantasy- laden films, switched to action and science fiction towards the end of the eighties / early nineties , and then from the mid to late nineties to deliver somewhat more in-depth works. B. thematized the end times . However, almost all of his films have in common that their plot is comparatively simple and rather violence, effects or scenery seem to be in the foreground. The quality of his films suffered particularly when he separated from his producers Tom Karnowski and George Mooradian.

In 1994 he founded the production company Filmwerk , which he left in 1999.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artwork for Albert Pyun's Cool Air Blows In
  2. ^ First Word on New Lovecraft Adaptation Cool Air
personal data
SURNAME Pyun, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Hawaii, USA