Special Effects Supervisor Kevin Chisnall is the managing director of Taipan SFX.

Kevin’s early career started in broadcasting in 1971. In 1978 he studied special effects at the BBC studios in London, England. In 1980 he was special effects supervisor and armourer on New Zealand’s first big international production, The Race to the Yankee Zephyr, starring George Peppard and Donald Pleasance.

Three years later in 1983 Kevin was the New Zealand Special Effects Coordinator on the feature film “The Bounty “starring Mel Gibson & Anthony Hopkins

He travelled to Hong Kong in 1985 for his first South East Asian feature “Aces Go Places - part 4 “, three other Hong Kong movies quickly followed.

1987, saw him back in New Zealand working as New Zealand SFX Coordinator for George Lucas’s “Willow “.

Kevin has worked in the film & television industries for over 33 years and has spent 19 of those years in and out of South East Asia, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the South Pacific Islands gaining valuable experience and contacts with regard to shipping, security, safety and knowledge of local regulations and conditions.

He is now based in Bangkok, Thailand providing Pyrotechnic, Atmospheric and Mechanical Effects as well as Film Armoury to the South East Asia region.

Bodyguard II ( 2006 ) BAA RAM EUE Films - Director: Mum Ja Mok

Blood Monkeys ( 2006 ) Thai Occidental Films - Director: Robert Young

Rescue Dawn ( 2005 ) Werner Herzog Films - Director: Werner Herzog

Sons of the Wind ( 2003 ) UGC Images France - Director: Julien Seri
( Les Fils du Vent )( aka " Great Challenge" )

Beyond Borders ( 2002 ) Border Film LLC - Director Martin Campbell

Double Vision ( 2001 ) Nan Fang Film Prod. – Director Kuo Fu Chen

A Bright Shining Lie ( 1997 ) HBO - Director Terry George

Variety said of Chisnall's work on HBO’s Feature, “ A Bright Shining Lie “
“ The explosions and combat footage are wrenchingly realistic “

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