James Wagnor

James Wagnor was born Stegath James Dorr near Detroit to a German-American government scientist father and an architect mother of Irish-Canadian extraction. His father's employment with the US government frequently uprooted the family and Dorr was shuffled from posts in Africa and Asia and the Middle East back to the United States and endured a rough-and-tumble upbringing in various naval ports and cities overseas. First on-camera in 1985 in the Michigan-lensed horror film "The Carrier" and volunteered to remain on the set as a production assistant age twelve to learn about the business. Obsessed with film production and media communications, he joined the USIS Branch of the US Embassy and spent his time in the unclassified information section learning about the media. After leaving the USIS Dorr attended Central Michigan University and wrote, directed and starred in "Dermot" which entered the Foyle Film Festival and was exhibited in late 1995. Dropping out of Central Michigan University, Dorr drifted to Arizona for a year before moving to Muscat, Oman and finding employment as a film critic with Apex Publishing. Quitting after a dispute with his editor, Dorr moved to the UK in the summer of 2000 to pursue work as a stagehand but quarreled with his grandmother and found himself penniless on the streets of London and took work as a night manager in an Earl's Court hotel as a survival job. Here he met a woman from Ontario and moved to North Bay, Ontario in 2001. He completed his degree in Journalism and Economics at Canadore Canada while employed at the North Bay Centre for the Performing Arts. After being requested to testify in a welfare fraud case against a female Hell's Angels associate and drug trafficker for the motorcycle gang that Dorr had previously employed he fled from Canada in June 2003 and returned to Oman. In Oman, he worked for Impact Films and shot the horror film "Blood Desert" for Arab television and a documentary about Oman for Discovery Asia while writing, directing and providing voice-over for commercials. After "Blood Desert" was aired on Gulf Arabian television and exhibited publicly at the Muscat Film Festival he formed a film production company and served as the production representative for "Al Boom" in 2007. During this time he formed an association with Mohan Lal, a Kerela star and Sunny Leone. He wrote, co-produced and starred in "Pirate's Blood" alongside Sunny Leone, Isabel Granada and Nishant Sagar in 2008 but despite its star cast, noted international media coverage and budget the film received a very limited release in India and faded into a obscurity. Dorr left his film production company in the Gulf and relocated to Cebu, Philippines. Several years later he reunited with Sunny Leone in Cebu, Philippines for "Black Shama" which he co-produced and starred in alongside local ABS-CBN actress Rowena Duarte.