Pulse Films’ head of music video Laura Tunstall is moving from London to Los Angeles to act as executive producer for the video department in the company’s LA office. Her remit will be to establish British directors on the Pulse roster – including Ben Newman, Thirtytwo and Emil Nava – in the US market, and [...]

It started with Midnight City, then continued with Reunion. Now here’s the concluding part of Fleur and Manu’s epic kids-with-superpowers trilogy for M83 – for Wait. And things don’t exactly get wrapped up neatly in this one. At first we’re in the aftermath of the confrontation at the climax of Reunion with the leading telekinetic [...]

Ingenious and highly influential animator PES has signed to A+ for European representation. The director and animator of numerous short films and commercials, PES is currently in development on his first feature film, a movie based on the Garbage Pail Kids. PES’s brilliant stop-motion shorts include Western Spaghetti, The Deep, and Game Over. And his [...]

There’s no way getting around it. This time of year means its time for end-of-year Best Of lists. So, loyal Promo News reader, please send us your Top 10 favourite videos of 2012, in order! If we get a good number, we’ll put together a Promo News Readers Poll of 2012′s Best Music Videos. If [...]

Nick Chatfield-Taylor – Brooklyn-based director of clips for the likes of Matt & Kim, Ninjasonik, the superbly named Parts & Labor, engaged a lot of help to make his superb video for garage-punk duo the Unstoppable Death Machines’ Do The Devo. In fact this is a performance video of the basic bass-and-drums combo hand-rotoscoped over [...]

Villagers singer Conor O’Brien shadows a middle-aged man as he goes about his lonely, humdrum life in Alden Volney’s poignant promo for Nothing Arrived. With props to Anna Mould for her art direction, Volney portrays the man (played by Adam Cole) as the saddest soul alive as he gets out of bed, shaves, goes to [...]