Ian Robertson, director of the acclaimed and hugely popular videos for Delta Heavy and Duke Dumont, has joined Colonel Blimp for music video representation. Ian’s first stop motion music video Lyrical Spread won a BAFTA New Talent Award in 2011 and his music video commission for dubstep duo Delta Heavy’s Get By (top right) – [...]
Nominations have been announced for the 2013 MVPA Awards – the US music video industry’s annual celebration of the best US-produced work in the past year – with videos by Floria Sigismondi taking the most nominations, followed by those of DANIELS, Anthony Mandler, Benny Boom, Colin Tilley and Melina Matsoukas. Sigismondi’s videos for David Bowie’s [...]
London-based production company Luti Media have signed top American director Colin Tilley for music video projects in the UK. The highly prolific director of some of the most-watched music videos in the world over the past couple of years, Colin has worked with the likes of Nicki Minaj, Wiz Khalifa, Justin Beiber, Kelly Rowland, Justin [...]
An interactive music video has been announced as the winner of a challenge set by the group Hurts to students at Central St Martins, the prestigious London-based art school. The competition was a collaboration between Sony Music, Central St Martins and BUG – and as well as winning a cash prize, the video by CSM [...]
OMG Everywhere, the project that gives kids the chance to develop their filmmaking skills by making their own music videos in a collaborative environment overseen by established music video directors, is coming to both London and New York for the first time this summer, as part of OMG Everywhere’s just-announced summer sessions. The nonprofit organisation [...]
The deadline for the OK Go Music Video Challenge – the music video competition organised by Saatchi & Saatchi, BUG and Talenthouse – has now extended to May 21st 2013. The competition invites up and coming filmmakers to make a video for a new OK Go track, I’m Not Through. The Grand Prize winner will [...]
The Paris-based director Pierre Edouard Joubert – otherwise known as PEJ – has joined the roster at Gas&Electric in London for music videos. Arguably best known for directing the video for Professor Green’s smash-hit Remedy (above), PEJ is a Paris based motion designer/director who started his career designing motion graphics for some of the biggest [...]
London-based production company FRIEND have added two new directors to their roster – both hailing from Scandinavia. They are Norwegian director André Chocron, and Tim Erem, from Sweden. André Chocron has directed a dozen videos for Norwegian bands since graduating from film school two years ago – resulting in two consecutive Spellemann (Norwegian grammy) nominations [...]
HSI London have signed acclaimed director Rob Chiu to their directing roster. Well known for his photographic and graphic work, and command of digital filmmaking and animation skills, Rob has created a series of highly original short films and commercials. Early in his career Rob directed the shorts Things Fall Apart, the handdrawn Black Day [...]
Directing duo Adi Kerr and James Knott – otherwise known as PUSH – have joined the roster at Gas&Electric. Together for the past six years, PUSH’s credits include working with the burgeoning UK hiphop scene, live camera directing at top electronic festivals, producing pilot TV shows with Radio 1 DJs, and directing music videos. They [...]
