Albert Pyun
Albert Pyun (born 1954 in San Diego, USA) is an American director of numerous B- and C- movies.
Life
Pyun grew up in Hawaii where he is already at the age of 14 years began first films with a 16 mm camera to turn. At the age of 18, he traveled to Japan, where he trained as an editor and cameraman and assistant of Akira Kurosawa was. Later he returned to Hawaii and worked on various documentaries and commercials. In 1976, he moved to LA. His debut as a director, he was with the film The Sword and the Empire in 1982. Numerous films followed, the best known include the Nemesis series and Cyborg with Jean -Claude Van Damme in the lead role. In 2006 he filmed as a direct-to- video production, the HP Lovecraft short story Cool Air, which in 2012 his first movie premiere, celebrated under the Estepona International Film Festival.
His career as a director is divided nearly in various film genres. So Pyun began in the early eighties rather afflicted with fantasy films, changed in the late eighties / early nineties to action and science fiction and then from mid - to-late nineties something deeper works to deliver the example the end times themed. However, it has almost all of his films have in common that their action is relatively simple and more violence, effects or scenery seems to stand in the foreground. The quality of his films suffered particularly when he separated from his producer Tom Karnowski and George Mooradian.
In 1994 he founded the production company cinematographic work to leave them again in 1999.