Background
Clement was born in Kelowna, British Columbia but his family moved to Victoria, British Columbia in 1980, where he grew up. His mother is Japanese-Canadian.
Clement was born in Kelowna, British Columbia but his family moved to Victoria, British Columbia in 1980, where he grew up. His mother is Japanese-Canadian.
He is most well known for his low budget zombie films, including Meat Market, Meat Market 2, and Meat Market 3. He lived for a year in Japan teaching English from 1996-1997 and met several relatives. Clement is of Japanese-Canadian and English descent.
His second middle name is the Japanese name "Haruo".
In Victoria, Clement made several short films and an historical drama feature in 1999. In 2000, Meat Market, made for under $CAD2000, was picked up for distribution by Sub Rosa Cinema (later SRS Cinema), based out of upstate New New York
After several zombie films, he decided that he wanted to branch out to psychological thrillers and science fiction. He was tempted back to zombie films in 2006 for Meat Market 3 when United Kingdom-based Cryptkeeper offered to produce lieutenant
His final feature in Victoria was Dark Paradox, a 2007 film about a writer who battles a cult that worships an extra-dimensional tentacled entity.
lieutenant screened in 2008 at the Rio de Janeiro Riofan Fantastic Film Fest and the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Oregon. In 2008, he moved to Toronto and worked on several short films and directed music videos for Canadian music groups Hank & Lily and Techromancer. In 2009, he wrote a sci-fi/horror conspiracy thriller screenplay, which was reworked into Project Breakwater, a science fiction film about an alien scientist studying humanity.
In 2012, he adapted and expanded the same original screenplay to the unrelated novel The Final Transmission, which was published by Damnation Books in December 2013.