Life and career

He started his career making amateur music videos for local bands in the south of England. He would have his films process by an elderly woman who processed super 8 films for cheap in her bathtub. His first professional job was directing a commercial for the video game Silent Hill, for the English market. His first feature film, Hard Candy, was released in 2005 by Lions Gate Entertainment, who purchased the independent movie at the Sundance Film Festival. He went on to direct the vampire film 30 Days of Night in 2007. Slade directed The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the third film in the Twilight film series.

In a Twitter post, Slade listed his favorite films as Performance, Wings of Desire, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, and Possession. Slade also attributes Performance as his main inspiration for becoming a film director.

Filmography

Feature films

• Hard Candy (2005)
• 30 Days of Night (2007)
• The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)

Music videos

• Speedy J's "Symmetry" (computer animated video piece titled "Corpus Porpoise Posthumous Non Polhemus")
• Aphex Twin's "Donkey Rhubarb"
• LFO's "Tied Up"
• DJ Rap's "Good to Be Alive" (original UK version)
• Collapsed Lung's "Eat My Goal"
• Rob Dougan's "Clubbed to Death"
• Stone Temple Pilots' "Sour Girl"
• CJ Bolland's "Sugar Is Sweeter"
• Tori Amos' "Strange Little Girl"
• Muse's "Hyper Music, Feeling Good"
• Muse's "Bliss"
• Muse's "New Born"
• Stereophonics's "Mr. Writer"
• System of a Down's "Aerials"
• AFI's "Girl's Not Grey"
• The Killers' "Goodnight, Travel Well" for UNICEF in conjunction with MTV EXIT

Short films

• I Smell Quality (1994)
• Do Geese See God? (2004)
• MEATDOG: What's Fer Dinner (2008)

Television series

• Breaking Bad
  • Episode 4.03 - "Open House"
• Awake
  • Episode 1.01 - "Pilot"
• Hannibal
  • Episode 1.01 - "Apéritif"
  • Episode 1.03 - "Potage"
  • Episode 1.13 - "Savoureux"
  • Episode 2.11 - "Kō No Mono"
  • Episode 2.13 - "Mizumono"
• Crossbones
  • Episode 1.01 - "The Devil's Dominion"
• Powers
  • Episode 1.01 - "Pilot"
  • Episode 1.02 - "Like a Power"
• American Gods
  • Episode 1.01 - "The Bone Orchard"

[ Source: Wikipedia ]