Jason Lei Howden
Jason Lei Howden is a New Zealand film director and visual effects artist. Background. Howden was born and raised in Greymouth, New Zealand. He left high school at age 17 and started his career 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. The film won several awards at Toronto After Dark Film Festival and other international film festivals. 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. Since 2001, Howden has been working as a visual effects artist on films. He has worked on visual effects in several Hollywood movies, including "", "", "", "Man of Steel", "Gods of Egypt", and "War for the Planet of the Apes", among others.