Spotlight Academy wishes to congratulate young
Cameron Bright on the success of his three movies releasing within a month of each other. Tonight sees the premiere of the gritty
Running Scared in which Cameron plays Oleg, a young boy who steals a gun from his best friend’s house. When the father,
Paul Walker star of
Eight Below and
2 Fast 2 Furious, discovers the weapon is missing, he has to find it before his mob bosses or the police.
One week later, March 3,
Ultraviolet, the Sci-Fi drama from director
Kurt Wimmer (
Equilibrium) begins.
Mila Jovovich (
The Fifth Element,
Resident Evil) stars as Violet, a rogue warrior bent on destroying a government time bomb designed to destroy her people. When she discovers the device is a nine-year-old boy (Cameron) she has to face an army of government warriors and keep them from the boy.
March 17
th sees the limited North American release of
Thank You For Smoking starring
Aaron Eckhart, Cameron Bright and
Adam Brody. Eckhart plays Nick, (as in nicotine) a tobacco lobbyist who works hard to debate the issues in favor of his employers until he discovers the role model he has become to his son (Cameron).
Cameron appeared in a double episode of Vancouver based
Stargate SG-1 last year and has previous television credits on
Dark Angel and
Higher Ground. Cameron’s film credits include
The Butterfly Effect with Ashton Kutcher,
Godsend with Robert De Niro, and
Birth with Nicole Kidman and Lauren Bacall.
When he’s not working on a film set or attending grade 8 classes in Nanaimo or just being a kid, 13 year-old Victoria born Cameron is coached for up coming projects at Nanaimo’s
Spotlight Academy. Instructors
Jacqui Kaese (recently coaching
Blake Woodruff on the set of Hellion) and her team including Bart Anderson, Adrian Hough (The Fog) and Marina Darling, have assisted in taking students to a whole new level.