Biography
Biography and Filmography
On the set of Steve Niles' Remains - 2011
(photo credit Sherry Beauregard)
Selected Filmography
Features:
- Dead Souls 2012 Director, VFX (filming now)
- Steve Niles' Remains 2011 Director, VFX
- Alien Opponent 2010 Director, VFX
- Assault of the Sasquatch 2009 Co-Cinematographer, VFX
- Banshee!!! 2008 Director, VFX
- Werewolf: The Devil's Hound 2007 VFX
- Indies Under Fire (Doc) 2006 Animator
Shorts / Web:
- Theseus Woman 2012 Director, VFX
- Cold 2012 Director
- Road to Reno 2011 Director
- Eenie Meenie Miney Moe 2011 Cinematographer
- Alice Jacobs is Dead 2009 VFX
- Mummy Trouble TBA Cinematographer
- Megafires TV Pilor TBA Cinematographer, VFX
- Harold and Burns 2007 Director, Writer, VFX
- Old Light 2007 Cinematographer
- Life, Death, the Afterlife, Etc. 2006 Co-Cinematographer, VFX
- Death to the Tinman 2006 Assistant Cinematographer
- Remember Afghanistan (Doc) 2006 Editor
- Plum 2006 Cinematographer
- Good Boy 2006 Executive Producer
- The Anatomist's Apprentice 2005 1st AC
- Items Removed from the
Human Trachea 2005 Gaffer - Astronomurder 2005 Cinematographer, Exec. Producer
- A Star Close to Home 2005 1st AC
- Donkey Trash 2005 Producer, Editor
- Thog (Animation) 2004 Director, Writer, Animator
- Milton Bradley's Life 2004 Editor
- Egg 2003 Motion Capture
- Forces of Nature (Animation) 2002 Director, Writer, Animator
- The Unexpected (Animation) 2002 Director, Writer, Animator
As Self:
- Chiller 13: Horror's Creepiest Kids 2011
Biography
Born in 1985 in Connecticut, Colin Theys is an award-winning director and visual effects artist. His effects knowledge allows him to shoot with post-production in mind, delivering big production value on small budgets.
Raised on a diet of classic movies and computers, he studied animation, acting, and the visual arts. He majored in film studies at Wesleyan University and went on to direct his first commercial feature, Banshee!!! only two months after graduation.
Colin has been directing features and supervising visual effects for Synthetic Cinema International, most recently taking on Steve Niles’ Remains, the first original film for NBCUniversal’s Chiller Network. His next feature, Dead Souls, is a supernatural thriller based on the novel by Michael Laimo.
A technical geek at heart, Colin loves both science fiction and the science behind it. He believes that a good director should know what everyone on set does and how they do it, setting the tone for a set with their energy. You'll always find Colin standing by camera, close to the performance.
Testing a prop for Steve Niles' Remains - 2011
Even baby Colin liked making movies.
