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James P. Lay

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James Lay Fallback to Love Video Shoot April 2024
This is the official trailer for science fiction film "The Other Side of Infinity" written and directed by James P. Lay.

Releasing Winter 2023 word wide!
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THE OTHER SIDE OF INFINITY (official trailer)
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James is a Writer/Director/Musician/Engineer and a Professor at one of the largest private Universities in the country. James is widely known as a Top Hollywood Sound Designer and was the Winner of the 2003 Los Angeles Music Awards "Best Producer of the Year" competing against Michael Jackson's Producer-Rodney Jerkins and Led Zeppelin Producer Andy Johns, winning for his work with Rachelle Spector (ex-wife of Beatles Producer Phil Spector). Decedent of two of the oldest American Families, James' family is portrayed in arguably one of America's most famous Paintings by Norman Rockwell, see below.

With multiple #1 Box office films and over 60 feature film credits, James has worked as a Sound Designer/Rerecording Mixer/Supervising Sound Editor on numerous films featuring Brad Pitt. James has worked for Director Michael Mann(ALI), Producer/Director Francis Ford Coppola. He has worked personally for Will Smith(WSE) as well as worked with: Angelina Jolie, Robert Deniro, Gwyneth Paltrow, Gary Oldman, Jennifer Jason Leigh and numerous other A listers.

James moved into the Writer/Directors chair in 1996 with his debut TV series "The Edge". Son of a Scientist (NOAA) and raised in the cultural artistic tech savvy ground zero of San Francisco/Silicone Valley, James enjoys Writing and Directing quirky stylized commercial films with heart. He spent years in the music business as a Musician, Songwriter, Producer and Engineer and his band worked with world renowned Grammy Winning Producer Eric Valentine (Grace Potter/Slash/Maroon 5/Smashmouth/Good Charolette/Third Eye blind).

James' descends from two of the oldest American Families of notoriety; Tristram Coffin of Nantucket(A Royal from Devon England-see wiki) who arrived in America in the mid 1600's and Thomas Pennell who arrived in 1708. Tristram Coffin was an original settler and owned Nantucket Island Massachusetts. The Pennell's were one of most successful Ship Building families on the coast of Maine in "Pennellville" from 1760 to 1874. James's great uncle, Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Robert Peter Tristram Coffin was a close friend of Norman Rockwell, Rockwell utilized James's grandparents and mother as models for Rockwell's most famous paintings the "Freedom from Want" Painting in 1943 that was on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post, the painting is more commonly known to most American's as the "The Thanksgiving Dinner" painting.
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    Known for

    Brad Pitt, Sean Bean, Saffron Burrows, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Rose Byrne, Diane Kruger, and Garrett Hedlund in Troie (2004)
    Troie
    7.3
    • Sound Department
    • 2004
    Brad Pitt in Rencontre avec Joe Black (1998)
    Rencontre avec Joe Black
    7.2
    • Sound Department
    • 1998
    Astral Plane Viking
    Astral Plane Viking
    • Director
      Dreamland (2007)
      Dreamland
      3.5
      • Director
      • 2007

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      Sound Department



      • Lou Diamond Phillips, Gregory Alan Williams, Edy Ganem, and Aaron Tveit in Created Equal (2017)
        Created Equal
        5.7
        • re-recording mixer
        • supervising sound editor (as James Lay)
        • 2017
      • Le Sang des Templiers 2 (2014)
        Le Sang des Templiers 2
        4.3
        • re-recording mixer
        • supervising sound editor
        • 2014
      • Brad Pitt in World War Z (2013)
        World War Z
        7.0
        • sound effects editor (uncredited)
        • 2013
      • Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hardy, Elliot Page, Ken Watanabe, and Dileep Rao in Inception (2010)
        Inception
        8.8
        • sound designer (uncredited)
        • 2010
      • Jeffrey Mowery in Burn After Reading (2008)
        Burn After Reading
        7.0
        • sound effects editor (uncredited)
        • 2008
      • Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck in L'Assassinat de Jesse James par le lâche Robert Ford (2007)
        L'Assassinat de Jesse James par le lâche Robert Ford
        7.5
        • sound editor
        • 2007
      • All Babes Want to Kill Me (2005)
        All Babes Want to Kill Me
        3.1
        • re-recording mixer
        • sound designer
        • sound effects editor
        • 2005
      • Brad Pitt, Sean Bean, Saffron Burrows, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Rose Byrne, Diane Kruger, and Garrett Hedlund in Troie (2004)
        Troie
        7.3
        • sound designer
        • 2004
      • La Maison des 1000 morts (2003)
        La Maison des 1000 morts
        6.0
        • supervising sound editor
        • 2003
      • Steve Braun and Larry Sullivan in The Trip (2002)
        The Trip
        7.0
        • re-recording mixer
        • supervising sound editor
        • 2002
      • Stephen Dorff in Deuces Wild (2002)
        Deuces Wild
        5.6
        • re-recording mixer
        • sound effects editor
        • supervising sound editor (as James Lay)
        • 2002
      • Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)
        Better Luck Tomorrow
        7.0
        • re-recording mixer
        • sound effects editor
        • supervising sound editor (as James Lay)
        • 2002
      • Dana Ashbrook and Tisha Campbell in The Last Place on Earth (2002)
        The Last Place on Earth
        5.9
        • re-recording mixer
        • supervising sound editor
        • 2002
      • Will Smith in Ali (2001)
        Ali
        6.7
        • sound effects editor (as James Lay)
        • 2001
      • Jeepers Creepers : Le Chant du diable (2001)
        Jeepers Creepers : Le Chant du diable
        6.2
        • re-recording mixer
        • supervising sound editor (as James Lay)
        • 2001

      Director



      • The Other Side of Infinity (2024)
        The Other Side of Infinity
        6.2
        • Director
        • 2024
      • James P. Lay in Fire (2023)
        Fire
        Music Video
        • Director
        • 2023
      • James P. Lay in Love is the way (2023)
        Love is the way
        Music Video
        • Director
        • 2023
      • Razor (2016)
        Razor
        6.3
        • Director
        • 2016
      • Dreamland (2007)
        Dreamland
        3.5
        • Director
        • 2007

      Actor



      • The Other Side of Infinity (2024)
        The Other Side of Infinity
        6.2
        • Guy waving at bar
        • Guy on Lizard Whiskey Bottle
        • 2024
      • Razor (2016)
        Razor
        6.3
        • Puritan Band Member right
        • 2016
      • Dreamland (2007)
        Dreamland
        3.5
        • Russian Reading Paper in Restaurant (as James Lay)
        • 2007

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      THE OTHER SIDE OF INFINITY (official trailer)
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      THE OTHER SIDE OF INFINITY (official trailer)

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        • James Lay's Post Production Sound Company
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      • Other works
        Nominated for Best New Producer, Los Angeles Music Awards 2003

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