Eric Voake

Erik Voake is an American filmmaker and photographer born in Yorba Linda, California in 1973.

Voake attended Western State College of Colorado where he studied Outdoor Leadership. He lived in the town of Crested Butte, CO.

He purchased an Arriflex 16mm motion picture camera and focused on whitewater kayaking. After traveling to Peru, West Virginia and all through Colorado he put together his first action sports documentary titled The Fix. While in production on Off the Deep End Voake began co-creating his next action sports film series titled Slednecks. Slednecks is an action sports film that focuses on the sport of freestyle snowmobiling and is now one of the biggest draws of the winter X Games on ESPN. While making Slednecks Voake was introduced to fellow action sports filmmakers and, creators of the highest selling action sports film series to date, Crusty Demons of Dirt. He went on to segment produce, film and edit 5 Crusty Demons of Dirt films.

Voake befriended Zalman King, creator of 9 ½ Weeks, which led to him producing, directing, filming and editing the definitive documentary on the controversial rap metal band "Body Count" featuring Ice T. The film was titled Murder For Hire and included some of the last performance footage of guitarist "D Roc the Executioner."

He directed two music videos for the first was titled "Chamber of Fear" and was used by Nike to promote the Lebron James shoe. The second music video titled "Unleash Me" was used to promote the Jet Li film Unleashed and was also the title track for the film.

Voake was a Producer and the Director of Photography on the first ever hip hop era feature film titled A Day in the Life. The film was directed by Sticky Fingaz and starred Omar Epps, Michael Rapaport, Mekhi Phifer, Drina De Niro, Faizon Love and Bokeem Woodbine. The film was distributed by Lions Gate.

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