Cameron in 3 Films

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.