James DeValera Mansfield
- Visual Effects
- Animation Department
Born in Frankfurt, Germany. Irish father (James Sr.) and Croation
mother (Jane). Raised in Greece, Switzerland and Ireland. Attended Dun
Laoghaire School of Art and Design in Dublin. Lives in Los Angeles
since 1990. One older sister (Adrianna) lives in Switzerland. Was
instrumental in repatriating the Denham film archive and other
artifacts recovered at Maisonneuve, France, in 1999, to the US.
Presently directing a documentary feature that chronicles the ongoing
restoration work and reconstructs the life of pioneering
adventurer-filmmaker Carl Denham, whose brief, though notable career
spanned the late 1920s and early 1930s.
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