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Chad Sarahina

John Merizalde has shown how he can&nbsp;blur the lines&nbsp;between drama and reality in his recent videos for Declan McKenna and Lewis Del Mar. Now&nbsp;he&#39;s done a full-on documentary,&nbsp;with a heartwarming&nbsp;profile of the&nbsp;Cascade roller skating rink in Atlanta, its rich history and important place in the local culture,&nbsp;for&nbsp;SG Lewis&#39;s Holding Back.Merizalde returns to this haunt of his youth, with&nbsp;co-director Pasqual Gutierre, to capture the Cascade&#39;s&nbsp;unique flavour and recall the heady days of its past, while the delicious Holding Back provides an appropriately uplifting soundtrack. Lovely stuff.

United States

John Merizalde

Dylan Harrington

Bullion Productions

Drew O'Neill

Kristian Zuniga

Daniel Guadalupe

Austin English

Alex Allgood

Stephanie Lennox

Cami Starkman

David Torcivia

Colton Wheatley

Deanna Ross

OB Management

Emily Ann Sonnet

Pmr/virgin Emi

Pasqual Gutierrrez

Whitelist

Richard Volsky

Soul

S G Lewis ft. Gallant 'Holding Back' by John Merizalde

Sg-Lewis-Ft.-Gallant-'Holding-Back'-by-John-Merizalde-//-Co-directed-By-Pasqual-Gutierrrez

John Merizalde takes the 17 year old indie prodigy Declan McKenna&#39;s Bethlehem and builds a&nbsp;story of blossoming love between two teenagers&nbsp;in a small American town where bigotry and religious zealotry&nbsp;hangs like a shadow over them.Shot on 16mm, Merizalde, who hails from Georgia, sketches a world of believable characters, and&nbsp;captures the claustrophobia of the place, with a lightness of touch that&#39;s perfectly pitched to the&nbsp;song. &nbsp;

United Kingdom

Kevin Staake

Oren Malik

Jennifer Chandler

Amber Flores

Laura Clayton

Columbia

Erin S Murray

Azariah Oldacre

Edward Martinez

Indie, Indie, singer-songwriter

Declan McKenna 'Bethlehem' by John Merizalde

Declan-Mckenna-'Bethlehem'-by-John-Merizalde

Edward John Drake&#39;s&nbsp;video for&nbsp;We Are The Ocean&#39;s Good For You is an&nbsp;ambitious&nbsp;work of musical theatre, captured in one flowing camera move&nbsp;which plays with the viewer&#39;s expectations, demands attention - and may well leave you wondering what the hell happened.We&#39;re drawn in by WATO&nbsp;singer Liam Cromby&nbsp;stalking through a junk yard cum garage, before topless men slide open the gates for a Sixties car to pull in and the guys inside to free the blonde girl being held in the trunk. Violence follows - but the blonde certainly doesn&#39;t appear to be the victim...

Edward John Drake

Tim Lanham

Jake Ures

Devin Karrington

Kita Nahanni

Hi Sarah Parks, Together We Could Have A Field Day With Puns For Your Name.

Faye Purcell

Bmg Chrysalis

We Are The Ocean 'Good For You' by Edward John Drake

We-Are-The-Ocean-'Good-For-You'-by-Edward-John-Drake

In the&nbsp;video for Seven Suns directed by John Merizalde,&nbsp;Raury tackles the dangers of technology addiction, and more specifically that of cell phones. Sound captions of said phone-addicts can be heard in the beginning of the video, as&nbsp;Raury and his clan aka LoveRenaissance are introduced.&nbsp;&nbsp;Clad with bats and leather jackets, they&nbsp;take matters into their own hands to&nbsp;wake the masses from the their phone-dependency&nbsp;and the zombie-like state that they&#39;re in while using them.&nbsp;The&nbsp;aim is to match the exteme nature of the addiction (&quot;I check my phone at least once every 5 minutes or else I have a nervous breakdown&quot;) with their measures, grabbing phones off of passersby and smashing them to oblivion.&nbsp;Raury&#39;s track &quot;Seven Suns&quot; sets the tone, with the drowned out guitar riffs and vibrant lyrics matching the revolutionary feel of the video.

Dustin Highbridge

Nate Hurtsellers

Carlos Laszlo

Bryan Younce

Columbia Records

Raury 'Seven Suns' by John Merizalde

Raury-'Seven-Suns'-by-John-Merizalde

A dying young man is given a day to remember by his pals in Edward John Drake&#39;s &#39;message&#39; promo for Investo&#39;s dance stormer A Place To Go.The exhaustive romp sees the lad get&nbsp;taken on a wild road trip,&nbsp;thrown out of a plane and subjected to just about anything that&#39;s likely to&nbsp;shorten the poor guy&#39;s life expectancy.&quot;Don&#39;t worry!&nbsp;There&#39;s a quote at the end which ties it all together and justifies how selfish these fuckers are,&quot; says Edward, who continues to build&nbsp;an impressive body of work while still unsigned. That status that&nbsp;will surely change&nbsp;at some point in 2015...&nbsp;

Billie Carson

Miranda Tiano

Sana Semenuik

Liberty Netuschil, Kyle Darling, Lip Latham

Investo 'A Place To Go' by Edward John Drake

Investo-'A-Place-To-Go'-by-Edward-John-Drake

A house party in South Central LA is disturbed by gun violence&nbsp;&ndash; that may sound like a familiar scenario, but John Merizalde gives it a different spin in his video for Memphis rapper Jon Waltz.&nbsp;For a start, who is the perp, and who is the victim? Real life and dream life merge in this steadily gripping video. And John Merizalde explains more in <a href="http://www.directorsnotes.com/2014/04/29/john-merizalde-bang/" target="_blank">his account of the making of the video on Directors Notes</a>.

Chris Black

Jon Waltz 'Bang' by John Merizalde

Jon-Waltz-'Bang'-by-John-Merizalde

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