Jeffrey Scott Basham

Jeffrey Scott Basham was born outside Chicago, Illinois, and raised in metropolitan Detroit. Jeffrey Scott Basham went on to receive formal training at California Institute of the Arts, The Juilliard School, and The Groundlings School. His first film appearance was Gran Torino (2008), under the direction of Clint Eastwood. In 2011, he received recognition for his role in Haaris Baiig's lauded thriller Residual Imprint (2012) and has worked alongside Sir Anthony Hopkins in the television series doing performance capture for WestWorld (2017). Basham has appeared The Tonight Show with Jay Leno(2012), after a triumphant set at the world famous Laugh Factory in Hollywood, where he would present the same set at Caroline's on Broadway in Times Square. In 2013, Basham played 'Max,' in Martin Sherman's BENT - which He also executive produced under the esteemed direction of Fran Bennett while at CalArts receiving the diversity Grant and all other applicable institutional awards at that time. Other regional theater credits include Hamlet in Hamlet In 2017, he appeared in several films, including Suburbicon, directed by George Clooney, with Matt Damon and Julianne Moore, and How to be a Latin Lover, directed by Ken Marino, with Eugenio Derbez, Salma Hayek, Rob Lowe, Kristin Bell, and Raquel Welch. However, Basham's most memorable film experience was working with movement choreographer and motion capture artists Terry Notary, Andy Sirkus and Director discuss transforming and capturing visual FX motion capture technology, and how one can be entirely transformed into chimps, orangutans or silver-back gorillas for War for the Planet of the Apes (2017). Jeffrey Scott Basham is an accomplished producer as well, winning an International Emmy Award for Best TV Movie or Miniseries for the Drama Don't Leave Me 2016. In 2019, Basham would go on to start Alchemy Motion Pictures, LLC, a production company which is in the business of developing, financing, producing and distributing commercial film and television content worldwide, and works in collaboration with other production companies, studios and agencies in the development, financing, production, and distribution of film and television projects, and also intends to provide co-financing to projects through either equity financing, debt financing, subsidies, and/or distribution financing and/or a combination thereof of diverse and inclusive independent filmmakers and their respective endeavors.