I wanted to establish the common name for visual effects supervisor Jean-François (Jafaz) Ferland, with way too many name variants (it's not at all unlikely that I've missed some).

JEAN-FRANÇOIS (JAFAZ) FERLAND (7 titles, 7 confirmed)
- Les affamés (confirmed by T!M)
- La belle et la bête (confirmed by greyghost)
- The House With a Clock in Its Walls (confirmed by mreeder50)
- Late Night (confirmed by T!M)
- Life Itself (confirmed by greyghost)
- National Champion$ (confirmed by huskersports)
- Wonderstruck (confirmed by T!M and Nosferatu)

JEAN-FRANÇOIS "JAFAZ" FERLAND (7 titles, 3 confirmed)
- Deadfall
- Imaginaerum
- Juste la fin du monde
- Long Shot (confirmed by T!M)
- Mommy (confirmed by T!M)
- Tom à la ferme
- Turbo Kid (confirmed by greyghost)

JEAN-FRANÇOIS FERLAND (6 titles, 2 confirmed)
- Boychoir (confirmed by T!M)
- La chute de l'empire américain
- Game of Death
- The High Note (confirmed by T!M)
- Laurence Anyways
- The Death & Life of John F. Donovan

JEAN-FRANÇOIS ("JAFAZ") FERLAND (1 title, 1 confirmed)
- Arrival (confirmed by T!M and Nosferatu)

J-F (JAFAZ) FERLAND (1 title, 1 confirmed)
- Devil's Gate (confirmed by T!M)

JF FERLAND (1 title, 1 confirmed)
- Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning: Part One (confirmed by mreeder50)

The CLT also shows a lone Canadian DVD with an alledged acting credit for a "Jean-François Ferland". It doesn't seem to be this visual effects supervisor, seems unlikely, but I can't be entirely sure, so I thought I'd mention it.

National Champion$: Jean-François (Jafaz) Ferland

Turbo Kid --> JEAN-FRANÇOIS "JAFAZ" FERLAND

La belle et la bête --> JEAN-FRANÇOIS (JAFAZ) FERLAND

Turbo Kid --> JEAN-FRANÇOIS FERLAND cast credit



Since he was a crew member on this film, vary likely this is the same person . There are 10 profiles from various localities which include this credit. (For some reason most of them include the header "Visual Effects - Curious" in the CLT results. Probably due to the requirement not to not include a Group End if no group follows.)

So in 'Devil's Gate' he's credited as visual effects supervisor in the opening credits as Jean-François Ferland and again in the end credits as J-F (Jafaz) Ferland. How would you suggest I reflect that in this list? Films where the same crew members are credited, for the same jobs, in both the opening and the closing credits, are not exactly rare, that happens quite a lot actually, certainly in what you'd call "foreign" films. I've always been told that we don't list the same crew members doing the same job twice, and that the opening credits take precedence. Do you agree?

And now that there are acting credits for this guy, it may become more likely that the Jean-François cast entry in 'Screeem', a short film in the database under UPC 622406-221690, also belongs to him. Looking at that profile, Anouk Whissell appears in 'Screeem' as well - Anouk Whissell being one of the writer-directors of 'Turbo Kid', that our Mr. Ferland worked on as well. So there *is* a connection there...

No, in the end credits of Devil's Gate he is credited twice, once near the beginning of them without a company header and later with a company header.