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Jason Wallis

After the audacious <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2023/07/05/bakar-alive-rubberband/82265" target="_blank">Alive!</a> - shot in Piccadilly Circus&nbsp;- rubberband. reunite with Bakar to direct another&nbsp;marvellous promo for the British singer-songwriter, bringing him to his audience&nbsp;in quite a different way.&nbsp;It begins in a stylised room interior, with Bakar at the keyboard, joined by two other musicians.&nbsp;It's filmed on a single locked-off camera in the corner of the room, and only when the view from the window&nbsp;starts to move that we realise that this room is quite literally being driven around as they perform, around the bustling streets of London.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]Growing in energy as the performance progresses, the video ends with a group of fans crowding the room set, trying to get a glimpse of the artist.&nbsp;It's an inspired concept that takes a simple idea - inspired by Swedish comedy auteur Roy Andersson - and&nbsp;executes it brilliantly.&nbsp;"I’m Done was supposed to be a live performance video," reveal the directing duo. "But we wanted to drive a room around London as an homage to Roy Andersson’s You, The Living. So that’s what we did.”

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Femi Koneth

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Ghandi El-Chamaa

SMUGGLER

Michael Lewin

Pat Golan

Elizabeth Doonan

Polly Woollard

Jess Horne

Becky Lee

Laurie Walters

Hannah Ryan

Britini  Campbell

Gina Blondelle

Cabin Edit

Electric Theatre Collective

Bakar

Sony Black Butter

Alternative

Bakar 'I'm Done' by rubberband.

Bakar-'I'm-Done'-by-Rubberband.

Eugen Merher directs an emotional promo for Rudimental's latest release, featuring&nbsp;Charlotte Plank and Vibe Chemistry.&nbsp;We are introduced to an everyday family, consisting of a brother and sister who live with their alcoholic father. After he ends up&nbsp;in hospital with alcohol poisoning, the kids are left to their own devices, and we get to see the rollercoaster of ups and downs that ensues.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:1]Exploring family dynamics and the generational cycle of addiction - and how this threatens to impact the lives of the characters we follow - the video ends up on a much more optimistic track, as they cook, play and spend time together, becoming each other's protectors at the same time.&nbsp;DoP&nbsp;Diego Rosenblatt's naturalistic, gritty cinematography is intimate yet cinematic, and the focus on character anchors the visual in the real-world, whilst offering a glimpse of fantasy and what the future of these characters could look like.Beautiful work.&nbsp;[imgtoken data:2]

Eugen Merher

Cara Mills

Elena Argiros

Academy Films

Heza Jalloh

Jack Meredith

Diego Rosenblatt

Jeff Vine

Matt Bohun

Paulina Rzeszowska

Final Cut

Ella Marafini

Ryan Beck

Olivia Jessop

Dan Millar

Mouthpiece

Sony Music

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Digital Orchard

Rudimental, Charlotte Plank, Vibe Chemistry 'Dancing is Healing' by Eugen Merher 

Rudimental, Charlotte Plank, Vibe Chemistry - Dancing is Healing (Official Video)

Renee Maria Osubu tells the story of a grieving family, within the wider context of the Black British experience, in Dirt In The Diamond, a short film that incorporates three songs from Jords album, with the same name, performed by the artist.In the first part, we are introduced to the main characters at a family gathering at the home of the Walkers, prior to the funeral of their son, where Jords performs MoBay with Tay Iwar. It's&nbsp;shot by cinematographer Courtney J. Bennett in rich colour, with an intimacy that recalls Steve McQueen's 'house party' film Lovers Rock.That is followed by the funeral of the son - the procession behind the coffin and church service -&nbsp;shot in stark black and white, in which we hear iPray by Jords, Wretch 32 and Miles from Kinshasa. Finally, the drama is replaced by a montage of&nbsp;archive footage of Black Londoners from the 1970s to the present day - including footage of era-defining protests against racism and prejudice -&nbsp;&nbsp;as Jords performs Fist In The Sky.&nbsp;Renee Maria Osubu&nbsp;brings the personal and the political together, and interrogates the nature of grief - which one character describes as "the truest form of love" - in compelling fashion.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;&nbsp;[imgtoken data:2]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Renee Maria Osubu

Maëva Demurger

Amara Rossell

Somesuch

Andre Reid-McKinley

Courtney J. Bennett

Lainy Black

Jodie-simone Howe

Elena Muntoni

Femi Konteh

Will Berger

Kharmel Cochrane

Rose Powell

Josh Fashola

Anne-Sofie Lindgaard

Danny Rumbelow

Dan Deighton

Ryan Rae

Grant Sandy Phillips

Luis Lopez

Krunal Saadrani

Léa Anderson

Lamar Lee

Phoebe Armstrong-Beaver

The Assembly Rooms

Benson Udia

Motown Records UK

Hip Hop

Jords 'Dirt In The Diamond (a short film)' by Renee Maria Osubu

Jords - DIRT IN THE DIAMOND (A SHORT FILM)

A robot vacuum cleaner goes walkabout in search of connection, in Aube Perrie's second video for Harry Styles.&nbsp;The video for Satellite is Perrie's follow-up to <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2022/10/31/harry-styles-music-sushi-restaurant-aube-perrie/79016" target="_blank">Music For A Sushi Restaurant</a>, where Harry played a captured Merman.&nbsp;This time, he hands over the spotlight, even as he is performing to thousands of&nbsp;fans on his current arena tour.&nbsp;Backstage, when a news report of the Mars Curiosity Rover appears on TV,&nbsp;the robot vacuum stops its routine business to take notice, and then takes on a life of its own.Soon we are with the little robot as it makes its determined way, out of the arena (we briefly see Harry out on stage) and into the big city, across dangerous highways, and into the surrounding country - just to get closer to that equally solitary robot on the TV. And he ends up, stargazing with none other than Mr Styles...&nbsp;This is a riveting fantasy of a quite a different type to the Sushi Restaurant video&nbsp;- warm-hearted, poignant, and probably influenced by&nbsp;several Pixar movies, including all the Toy Storys and, of course, the incredible Wall-E. But the fact is, it also looks like it was done mostly in-camera.&nbsp;Perrie gives it a beautiful visual aesthetic - and an irreverent twist -&nbsp;that sets this, and him apart from the crowd.[imgtoken data:1]&nbsp;[imgtoken data:2]

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Patience Harding

Sydney Levy

Aube Perrie

Rik Green

Bryan Younce

Francesco Rizzo

Pulse Films

Mathias Pieralta

Christopher Ripley

Nnena Nwakodo

James Sorton

Davud Karbassioun

Josh Montes

Sean Hunt

Nathone Giordano

Matt Planer

Bradley Wilder

Malina Burdette

Jerry Sun

Gwen Ghelid

Hands 

Harry Styles 'Satellite' by Aube Perrie

Harry-Styles-'Satellite'-by-Aube-Perrie

Joe Wheatley directs an impressive promo for Billie Marten's just released new album Drop Cherries -&nbsp;an 18 minute live film featuring Billie and her band performing four songs from the album, brilliantly&nbsp;achieved in a single take.&nbsp;Shot in&nbsp;rural Nottinghamshire, the film has an intimate, gentle aesthetic, and makes brilliant use of the&nbsp;anachronistic house location. Dom Monks, who produced the album, was also recording engineer on the film, ensuring that the quality of the sound matches the work by Wheatley and his DoP Ben Marshall.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Caught up in the nostalgic, breezy atmosphere, Marten's performance feels wistful yet incredibly present, exploring the different moods and themes of the album.&nbsp;

Joe Wheatley

Ben Marshall

Chanel Parkinson

Kelly Spacey

Collette Burke

Pete Wade

James Lahaise

Deimante Sprainaityte

Cassie Walker-Graham

Lara Himplemann

Lara Weidmann

Oliver Whitworth

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Yasmina Aoun

Billie Marten 'Drop Cherries: The Film' by Joe Wheatley

Billie Marten - Billie Marten – Drop Cherries: The Film

Iggy London directs a&nbsp;visual exploration of girlhood, growing up and self-love, in his affecting promo for Grace Carter.&nbsp;The video for Pick Your Tears Up contains several intimate portrait vignettes&nbsp;of Carter and her friends, capturing them in a transitory, poignant manner.&nbsp;Carefully blending character study and an abstract, elevated aesthetic, the video exists somewhere between a music video and documentary, and is instantly captivating and moving.&nbsp;A beautiful complement to the track, which perfectly visualises an intangible, yet universal, set of emotions.&nbsp;

Elena Isolini

Jinjo Casting

Verity May Lane

Iggy London

George Telfer

Park Pictures

Christian Huck

Shelley Jones

Lallie Doyle

Sam Barnham

Emmy Robinson

Ada Wesolowska

Tiffane Williams

Maya Man

Ed Hanbury

Trim Editing

Grace Carter 'Pick Your Tears Up' by Iggy London

Grace-Carter-'Pick-Your-Tears-Up'-by-Iggy-London

Joe Wheatley directs an idiosycratic and mysterious&nbsp;road movie&nbsp;for Ben Woods, aka The Golden Dregs.The black and white promo for Before We Fell From Grace opens with two characters travelling by foot across a wintry landscape. One of the pair - played by dancer Joe Grey Adams - is dressed entirely in white, and leads the other in&nbsp;a flamboyant folk-dance,&nbsp;seemingly inspired by some kind of otherworldly force.&nbsp;They reach a lake, and then the&nbsp;other character - played by Woods - pulls out a mysterious object. They walk further across the terrain through woods to a place where this enigmatic journey reaches its climax.[imgtoken data:1]"Ben approached me after Mark Jenkin, my old university lecturer and friend,&nbsp;never got back to him - and I don’t mind that at all," says Joe Wheatley. "He had some key references such as Bait, Paris&nbsp;Texas and True Stereo, my video for Willie J Healey. If there’s anything I might know how to do it’s people wandering around in places."I loved the track. He’s an extremely talented artist and fellow Falmouth graduate. I had some pretty heavy duty darker ideas that he liked but we ultimately settled on this kind of meditation on loss. Initially Ben wanted to find a body but we settled on the thing in the video that I still don’t know how to describe but the amazing prop maker, Rosie Tonkin, seemed to be telepathic and absolutely smashed it.&nbsp;"For the majority of my filmmaking I’m having the most fun dreaming up a project and then executing it. My enthusiasm wanes when I cross the finish line as I’m often worried if it’s any good or not. This project has been the exact opposite for me. Our first shoot day was cancelled midway through. We then waited a month whilst Ben was on tour to complete the shoot."As the sands of time rolled on to our second shoot day we battled with daylight saving hours, some of the worst rain I’ve experienced, a pheasant shoot holding us up and Ben getting an unauthorised haircut. Needless to say I was thrilled to get this one across the line."

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Cassie Walker Graham

Ynez Myers

OB Management

Agile Films

Sophie Hall

Joe Cook

Sana Khan

Precious Mahaga

Joe Mulvihill

Corey Milo

Milo Brown

Riccardo Angei

Adam Jones

4AD Records

Rosie Tonkin

Lulu Johnson

Indie

Singer-songwriter

The Golden Dregs 'Before We Fell From Grace' by Joe Wheatley

The-Golden-Dregs-'Before-We-Fell-From-Grace'-by-Joe-Wheatley

Hector Dockrill directs a heartwrenching promo for new Lewis Capaldi track Pointless.&nbsp;The narrative for the video captures a mother-son relationship with beautiful and heart-breaking intimacy. Spanning a couple of decades, the concept follows a&nbsp;single mother who strives against all odds to give her son the life she never had, and is packed with an emotional punch.&nbsp;With a wonderful performance&nbsp;from&nbsp;BAFTA winner Niamh Algar (The Virtues, Raised by Wolves)&nbsp;and three actors playing the son at different stages of his life - including Charley Palmer-Rothwell as her grown-up son -&nbsp;the video reinterprets the song's lyrics to explore a different type of relationship, and it works perfectly.[imgtoken data:1]The naturalistic cinematography and relatable themes help make the video feel incredibly realistic and universal, and it will no doubt have viewers thinking about their own loved ones as we enter the festive period.&nbsp;With mixed dialogue throughout, we both hear and see glimpses into the ups and downs of their daily lives over the years including financial hardship and the tightrope of being a working single parent. And in keeping with the theme of family, Laura Dockrill – Hector’s sister - wrote the script, making this a family affair both on and off screen.“Lewis had a beautiful idea that focused on the mother/son bond, and how responsibility shifts as you grow older," says Hector Dockrill. "Niamh Algar is a phenomenal talent and we’re already chomping at the bit to work together again. With only a week’s prep, she managed to immerse herself into the role and completely make it her own. This is definitely a special film that everybody can connect with – a shout out to every mother.”

Hector Dockrill

Joseph J Goldman

Zoe Gunn

Ty Hack

Patrick Golan

Anthony Mchugh

Steve Cameron

Robyn Wilton

Natasha Lawes

Begona F Martin

Holly Shearn

Stitch Editing

Sarah Adewunmi

Rich Woolway

Oscar Wendt

Lane Casting

Caroline Clayton

Lewis Capaldi 'Pointless' by Hector Dockrill 

Lewis Capaldi - Pointless (Official Video)

KLVDR's 11 minute epic for Stormzy's big return with Mel Made Me Do It is remarkable in a number of ways, and not least of course due to the star quality and sheer number of the cameo&nbsp;appearances. And yes, that does include the Special One...More to the point is the ambition of the piece. Fom the chatshow hosted by Jonathan Ross and ZeZe Mills, with Stormz sharing the sofa with Louis Theroux and Dina Asher-Smith - watched by Usain Bolt, at his home in Jamaica -&nbsp;to performance elements in the studio and the meeting with Jose Mourihno, to the momentous final chapter bringing a couple of generations of Black British talent together that includes a tribute to the late Jamal Edwards.At that point, Stormzy hands over duties to provide the spoken-word piece called Greatness - written by Wretch 32 and read by Michaela Cole. It's a&nbsp;quietly powerful climax of an impressive and entertaining production - this was a five day shoot,&nbsp;plus shooting Bolt in Kingston - that amounts to a big statement of intent by&nbsp;Stormzy - and reminds us of his unmistakeable charisma.&nbsp;&nbsp;And of course, the eponymous Mel, stylist Melissa Holdbrook-Akpose, namechecked by Stormzy in the songtitle, is there too, both behind and in front of camera - with her lint roller.

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