James Hayday

Movies

A Haunting in Venice
Sound Effects Editor
Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
Sound Effects Editor
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the world's fate at stake and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan must consider that nothing can matter more than his mission—not even the lives of those he cares about most.
Punch
Sound Designer
Jim is preparing for his first professional fight but begins to rethink his life's trajectory and his sexuality after tangling with Whetu, a gay Maori boy who spends his days in an old shack down by the beach.
Archive
Sound Effects Editor
2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI, and his latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs—being reunited with his dead wife.
Love Is a Hand Grenade
Sound Designer
Mixing drink, drugs and a friendship on eggshells was always going to be an explosive mix in this bittersweet British mini drama.
Hope Gap
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
A couple's visit with their son takes a dramatic turn when the father tells him he plans on leaving his mother.
Come to Daddy
Sound Designer
After receiving a cryptic letter from his estranged father, Norval travels to his dad’s oceanfront home for what he hopes will be a positive experience. If only he’d known the dark truth about his old man beforehand.
The Boat
Sound Designer
A lone fisherman on his daily run finds himself lost in a thick fog which proves impossible to navigate. The worst is yet to come when his encounter with a seemingly abandoned sailboat becomes a fight for survival against an enemy unknown.
Hurricane
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
The story of the Polish fliers who found themselves fighting for the freedom of their own country in foreign skies. Seen through the eyes of a Polish fighter ace and adventurer, it tells how the Poles—driven across Europe by the German war machine—finally make their last stand. Flying Hurricanes for the RAF over Britain, they became a key component in the legend of ‘The Few’. Up against the might of the Luftwaffe they hoped that, by saving Great Britain from Nazi invasion, they were keeping the dream of a free Poland alive.
Bats
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
A hazy night in Wellington is lit up with the pulsating colors and sounds of party people exploring their youth and freedom.
Bats
Sound Designer
A hazy night in Wellington is lit up with the pulsating colors and sounds of party people exploring their youth and freedom.
Patrick
Sound Designer
A woman's chaotic life becomes more complicated when she inherits her grandmother's dog.
Ferrari: Race to Immortality
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
The late 1950s were known as golden years in the world of motor racing, champions were made and lost on a Sunday, and no losses were greater than those of Enzo Ferrari’s Scuderia. Based on Chris Nixon’s bestselling biography Mon Ami Mate, Ferrari: Race to Immortality tells the story of the loves and losses, triumphs and tragedy of a turbulent era that shook the motor racing world.
6 Days
Supervising Sound Editor
London, England, April 1980. Six terrorists assault the Embassy of Iran and take hostages. For six days, tense negotiations are held while the authorities decide whether a military squad should intervene.
Jawbone
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the only family he has left: gym owner Bill corner man Eddie and promoter Joe. Back in training, years after anyone thought he was a contender, he risks his life, as he tries to stand tall and regain his place in the world.
The Infiltrator
Sound Effects Editor
A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.
Deathgasm
Sound Effects Editor
Two teenage boys unwittingly summon an ancient evil entity known as The Blind One by delving into black magic while trying to escape their mundane lives.
Kajaki
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
British soldiers guarding the Kajaki Dam set out to rescue a three-man team after one of them loses a leg to a landmine.
Field Punishment No.1
Sound Designer
In 1916, the New Zealand Government secretly shipped 14 of the country's most outspoken conscientious objectors to the Western Front in an attempt to convert, silence, or quite possibly kill them. This is their story.
Interim
Music
A young and green police officer is implicated in the assault of an arrestee.
Home
Sound Designer
We often think of houses as strong, solid permanent things. In fact they can be weak, fragile and mobile. 'Home' explores the idea of what makes a house a home.
Ten Thousand Days
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Darby Duncan is convinced he will die on his ten thousandth day. But when he meets Arabella at the funeral of his cousin, things don’t go quite to plan.
Ten Thousand Days
Sound Designer
Darby Duncan is convinced he will die on his ten thousandth day. But when he meets Arabella at the funeral of his cousin, things don’t go quite to plan.