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David Frazee

David Frazee is a Canadian director and cinematographer for film and television productions.

Known For

Chaos · 2005

★ 6.32005

In Seattle, detective Quentin Conners is unfairly suspended and his partner Jason York leaves the police force after a tragic shooting on Pearl Street Bridge, when the hostage and the criminal die. During a bank heist with a hostage situation, Conners is assigned in charge of the operation with the rookie Shane Dekker as his partner. The thieves, lead by Lorenz, apparently do not steal a penny from the bank. While chasing the gangsters, the police team disclose that they planted a virus in the system, stealing one billion dollars from the different accounts, using the principle of the Chaos Theory. Further, they find that Lorenz is killing his accomplices.

A lonely boy befriends a stray dog who has a natural talent for basketball and together they experience the highs and lows of life as their friendship remains solid through a series of escapades.

Dangerous Attraction · 2000

Dangerous Attraction

★ 4.82000

MovieThriller

A successful ad agency woman finds herself in a dangerous power struggle, back-dropped by murder, when she begins to uncover the true identity of the two men she is dating.

A young Canadian woman who sings in Kreuzberg in a rock band, and her boyfriend, who lives in a politically active flat-sharing community. Due to the new capital situation, demolished buildings suddenly become sought-after buildings. The living and working situation of the musicians and other scene-people deteriorates massively.

The Haunting of Sorority Row · 2007

The Haunting of Sorority Row

★ 5.42007

MovieHorrorThriller

Samantha Willows, a college freshman, looks to pledge a sorority. Unbeknownst to Sam, it is haunted by a former pledge taking revenge on those who wronged her.

Everything's Gone Green · 2006

Everything's Gone Green

★ 5.52006

MovieComedy

Ryan, a good-natured slacker, is tempted into a money laundering scheme while working for a lottery magazine. A capitalistic comedy that asks the question - when is "enough" enough?

Ladies Night · 2005

Ladies Night

★ 4.62005

MovieTV MovieThriller

Art and Zach Kirkland enjoy the good life, especially rented luxury cars, which they can only afford because Art regularly seduces women with access to substantial company funds, kills them and moves out of state. After Zach is unable to properly dispose of a body, freelance insurance investigator Jesse Grant's computer whiz gets their team on the bloody trail.

Painful Secrets · 2000

Painful Secrets

★ 5.92000

MovieDramaTV Movie

Struggling with the pressures of high school and her own dysfunctional family, a teenage girl copes with her anxieties by self-harming and cutting herself.

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A lonely boy befriends a stray dog who has a natural talent for basketball and together they experience the highs and lows of life as their friendship remains solid through a series of escapades.

Second Unit Director of Photography

Dangerous Attraction · 2000

Dangerous Attraction

★ 4.82000

MovieThriller

A successful ad agency woman finds herself in a dangerous power struggle, back-dropped by murder, when she begins to uncover the true identity of the two men she is dating.

Director of Photography

Cinematography

The Haunting of Sorority Row · 2007

The Haunting of Sorority Row

★ 5.42007

MovieHorrorThriller

Samantha Willows, a college freshman, looks to pledge a sorority. Unbeknownst to Sam, it is haunted by a former pledge taking revenge on those who wronged her.

Camera Operator

Everything's Gone Green · 2006

Everything's Gone Green

★ 5.52006

MovieComedy

Ryan, a good-natured slacker, is tempted into a money laundering scheme while working for a lottery magazine. A capitalistic comedy that asks the question - when is "enough" enough?

Director of Photography

Ladies Night · 2005

Ladies Night

★ 4.62005

MovieTV MovieThriller

Director of Photography

Painful Secrets · 2000

Painful Secrets

★ 5.92000

MovieDramaTV Movie

Struggling with the pressures of high school and her own dysfunctional family, a teenage girl copes with her anxieties by self-harming and cutting herself.

Director of Photography

Suddenly Naked · 2001

Suddenly Naked

★ 4.62001

MovieComedyRomance

A famous 'Jackie Collins' type novelist falls for a quirky twenty year old kid.

Director of Photography

A candid journey into the world of 4 young Canadian women who work as well-paid hostesses in exclusive Japanese nightclubs. Lured by adventure and easy money, these modern-day geisha find themselves caught up in the mizu shobai—the complex "floating water world" of Tokyo clubs and bars. Drawn by fast money, some women become consumed by the lavish lifestyle and forget why they came; one hostess calls this "losing the plot." With a pulsating visual style, Tokyo Girls captures the raw energy of urban Japan and its fascination with the new.

Director of Photography

Stolen Miracle · 2001

Stolen Miracle

★ 4.82001

MovieTV MovieCrime

Karen and Phil's first child is stolen by someone impersonating a nurse on Christmas Eve. A determined policewoman follows all clues in order to find the baby before it's too late.

Director of Photography

Hell Mountain · 1998

Hell Mountain

★ 3.61998

MovieThrillerScience Fiction

In an apocalyptical future, the world is completely destroyed and ruled by the tyrannical Stryker. He controls the unique source of food and uses young women as slaves to explore the mines in the Hell Mountain. When he abducts Shira, her lover Kal meets with the last professor on earth, Garrett, who helps him to rescue Shira.

Director of Photography

A street prostitute takes in an abused young woman on the run from her misogynist boyfriend, leading to both facing off against the prostitute's dreaded pimp and a relentless police detective out to arrest all of them.

Director of Photography

During 1864 in the Cariboo Mountains, hostility mounts between the Tsilhqot’in tribe and encroaching settlers seeking gold on the Chilcotin Plateau. Klatsassin leads an insurgency and evades capture. However, he is eventually lured with the gift of tobacco, take prisoner, tried for murder, and hanged.

Director of Photography

Survival Code · 2013

Survival Code

★ 5.32013

MovieActionScience Fiction

Set in 2045, Vic, an ex-ultimate fighter, is the owner of the only airstrip, hotel and bar in the high Arctic frontier town of Borealis. He does his best to keep the peace amongst a vast array of clashing characters in this lawless international free zone that sits on top of the world’s last remaining oil.

Director

The Sheldon Kennedy Story · 1999

The Sheldon Kennedy Story

★ 5.51999

MovieDrama

Alberta (Canada) rural farm-boy Sheldon Kennedy feels abused by dad when punished for poor performances compared to big brother Troy. being recruited for professional ice-hockey at age 14 seems an ideal way out, straight to a party animal's good life. Yet after a Vegas marriage with Jana and hearing she's pregnant, Sheldon breaks down and tells her what's eating at him for years: coach Graham James, whoa arranged for him to be transferred each time James was, sexually abused Sheldon, who fears to be laughed away as a queer and loose his only career avenue if he goes public

Director of Photography

100 Days in the Jungle · 2002

100 Days in the Jungle

★ 6.02002

MovieDramaTV Movie

100 Days in the Jungle tells the amazing true story of Canadian oil workers who were kidnapped by Colombian rebels and marched through the Ecuadorian jungle for 100 days.

Director of Photography

Edge of Madness · 2002

Edge of Madness

★ 5.62002

MovieDramaMystery

1851, Manitoba's Red River Valley. As winter sets in, a young woman on the edge of madness arrives exhausted at the fort, a wilderness station, claiming she murdered her husband. She's placed in a cell; for the next several months, she sews while the local prefect, Henry Mullen, investigates.

Director of Photography

Cowboys & Indians · 2003

Cowboys & Indians

★ 7.32003

MovieDrama

A police constable guns down a First Nations chief one snow night in Winnipeg, a tragedy that will impact the community for years to come.

Director of Photography

Let it Ride: The Craig Kelly story · 2006

Let it Ride: The Craig Kelly story

2006

MovieDocumentary

Once in a while a person comes along and flat changes it all. For the world of snowboarding, Craig Kelly was that guy. Craig Kelly led the charge, and led it with more class, skill and energy than anyone else would have or could have. Craig Kelly was snowboarding's original captain, and remained on top until his tragic death by avalanche in 2003.

Cinematography

Living Out Loud · 2009

Living Out Loud

★ 2.52009

MovieDramaTV Movie

A wife and mother, diagnosed with breast cancer, decides to truly live her life, which has become comfortable and predictable, and the family must adjust.

Director of Photography

CBC's dramatic account of the tragedy of Yellowknife's Giant Mine, in which 9 miners were killed during a bitter labour dispute.

Cinematography

America's Prayer · 2024

America's Prayer

★ 5.02024

Movie

If America goes to her knees, God will not bring her to her knees.

Dirk Jagger (Family Praying)

Vikings · 2013

Vikings

★ 8.12013

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

The adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods. Legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors.

Director

Lucifer · 2016

Lucifer

★ 8.42016

SeriesCrimeSci-Fi & Fantasy

Bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, Lucifer Morningstar abandoned his throne and retired to Los Angeles, where he has teamed up with LAPD detective Chloe Decker to take down criminals. But the longer he's away from the underworld, the greater the threat that the worst of humanity could escape.

Director

Titans · 2018

Titans

★ 7.82018

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

A team of young superheroes led by Nightwing (formerly Batman's first Robin) form to combat evil and other perils.

Director

Snowpiercer · 2020

Snowpiercer

★ 7.32020

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

More than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe as class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.

Director

Vikings: Valhalla · 2022

Vikings: Valhalla

★ 7.62022

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

In this sequel to "Vikings," a hundred years have passed and a new generation of legendary heroes arises to forge its own destiny — and make history.

Director

Orphan Black · 2013

Orphan Black

★ 7.82013

SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

A streetwise hustler is pulled into a compelling conspiracy after witnessing the suicide of a girl who looks just like her.

Director

Van Helsing · 2016

Van Helsing

★ 7.02016

SeriesMysterySci-Fi & Fantasy

Vanessa Helsing, the daughter of famous vampire hunter and Dracula nemesis Abraham Van Helsing is resurrected five years in the future to find out that vampires have taken over the world and that she possesses unique power over them. She is humanity’s last hope to lead an offensive to take back what has been lost.

Director

Continuum · 2012

Continuum

★ 7.52012

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyAction & Adventure

The series centers on the conflict between a group of rebels from the year 2077 who time-travel to Vancouver, BC, in 2012, and a police officer who accidentally accompanies them. In spite of being many years early, the rebel group decides to continue its violent campaign to stop corporations of the future from replacing governments, while the police officer endeavours to stop them without revealing to anyone that she and the rebels are from the future.

Director

After seeing an ad for a midwife, a recently divorced big-city nurse moves to the redwood forests of California, where she meets an intriguing man.

Director of Photography

Mary, Queen of Scots, faces political and sexual intrigue in the treacherous world of the French court.

Director

Flashpoint · 2008

Flashpoint

★ 7.42008

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

The Strategic Response Unit (SRU) is an elite team of cops who specialize in high-risk critical incidents. Trained in tactics and psychology, they deal with extreme situations, where split-second decisions could save a life...or cost one.

Director

Ash vs Evil Dead · 2015

Ash vs Evil Dead

★ 7.82015

SeriesComedyAction & Adventure

Bruce Campbell reprises his role as Ash Williams, an aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter who’s spent the last three decades avoiding maturity, and the terrors of the Evil Dead. But when a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind, he’s forced to face his demons — both metaphorical and literal.

Director

A team of Vancouver investigators, led by homicide detective Angie Flynn, sets out to uncover the motive of each puzzling murder by discovering the killer's connection to the victim. Viewers get a glimpse of the killer before and after the crime is committed.

Director

Da Vinci's Inquest · 1998

Da Vinci's Inquest

★ 6.21998

SeriesCrimeDrama

Da Vinci's Inquest is a Canadian dramatic television series that aired on CBC Television from 1998 to 2005. While never a ratings blockbuster, seven seasons of thirteen episodes each were filmed for a total of ninety-one episodes. The show, set and filmed in Vancouver, stars Nicholas Campbell as Dominic Da Vinci, once an undercover officer for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, but now a crusading coroner who seeks justice in the cases he investigates. The cast also includes Gwynyth Walsh as Da Vinci's ex-wife and chief pathologist Patricia Da Vinci, Donnelly Rhodes as detective Leo Shannon, and Ian Tracey as detective Mick Leary.

Director

Lawyer and recovering alcoholic Abigail Bianchi is struggling to put her career and family back together after hitting rock bottom. As a condition of her probation, Abby is forced to work at her estranged father’s firm, Svensson and Associates, and practice in family law for the first time while forging new relationships with the half-brother and half-sister whom she’s never met. The result is a dysfunctional family law firm operating to help other families with their own dysfunctions.

Director

An epic romantic adventure series based on the life of famous American outlaw Billy the Kid — from his humble Irish roots, to his early days as a cowboy and gunslinger in the American frontier, to his pivotal role in the Lincoln County War and beyond.

Director

Frontier · 2016

Frontier

★ 6.82016

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

In 18th-century North America, ruthless trappers and entrepreneurs fight to wrest control of the fur trade from the mighty Hudson's Bay Company.

Director

In the 1850s, Captain Charles Boone relocates his family of three children to his ancestral home in the small, seemingly sleepy town of Preacher’s Corners, Maine after his wife dies at sea. Charles will soon have to confront the secrets of his family’s sordid history, and fight to end the darkness that has plagued the Boones for generations.

Director

Incorporated · 2016

Incorporated

★ 6.32016

SeriesAction & AdventureCrime

Set in a near future where corporations have unlimited power, a young executive conceals his true identity to infiltrate a dangerous corporate world to save the woman he loves.

Director

A star rookie police officer must grapple with the limits of the justice system as she fights to exonerate her politician father and serve her diverse hometown of Surrey.

Director

October Faction · 2020

October Faction

★ 6.62020

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

Monster hunters Fred and Deloris Allen tangle with evil ... and family drama with their teenage twins. From the comics by Steve Niles and Damien Worm.

Director

Somewhere Between · 2017

Somewhere Between

★ 6.42017

SeriesCrimeDrama

Laura Price, a local news producer in San Francisco, is helping the police to hunt down a serial killer. After the killer strikes close to home, a twist of fate allows a “Groundhog Day”-type reset, and Laura relives the week prior to the string of murders. Can she change fate and stop the killer?

Director

Da Vinci's City Hall · 2005

Da Vinci's City Hall

★ 8.52005

SeriesDrama

Da Vinci's City Hall is a Canadian dramatic television series, which premiered on CBC Television on 25 October 2005. The series was a spin-off of the long-running Canadian series Da Vinci's Inquest. The creator, writer and executive producer of the series was Chris Haddock.

Director

The Romeo Section · 2015

The Romeo Section

★ 6.32015

SeriesCrimeDrama

Set in Vancouver, THE ROMEO SECTION is an hour-long serialized espionage drama following spymaster Professor Wolfgang McGee, an academic who secretly manages a roster of espionage assets. These assets, referred to as Romeo or Juliet spies, are informants engaged in intimate long or short term relations with state intelligence targets. Wolfgang is a semi-retired Romeo operator, having worked his way up from youth in an unnamed and officially deniable “service” under the umbrella of Canada’s Intelligence Community.

Creator