UK Agent:&nbsp;Leo Hickman at Wizzo&amp;Co.&nbsp; +44 (0)207 437 2055

Director of Photography

Patrick Meller

Joe Connor and Tim Mattia collaborate over the pond, in the video&nbsp;for&nbsp;Rag 'n' Bone Man &amp; P!nk's collab on Anywhere Away From Here.Working together to create a seamless production, the UK section of the video was shot in&nbsp;The Duke Of York’s Theatre in the West End, where nature has overtaken every inch of the space, with plants growing from the stalls and wild animals stalking the stage.&nbsp;For the US section, seasoned industry vets P!nk and Mattia create&nbsp;magic in an understated yet affecting way, bringing a remarkable dynamism and presence to the project.&nbsp;It's a great collaboration, anchored by top-notch performances and picture perfect cinematography, from Patrick Meller in London, and Justin Moro in the US. And&nbsp;Joe Connor explains that the origins of his idea for the video came a long time ago.&nbsp;"I wrote in a journal once that I wanted to plant a real cornfield in a theatre when I was training at Royal Central School London," he reveals. "And we managed to do it. It's mad how things manifest years later."&nbsp;

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Joe Connor

Tim Mattia

Fred Bonham Carter

Just Fred

Alexa Haywood

Billy Payne

John Clarke

Marty Moore

Iain Whitewright

Tenthree Editing

George Kyriacou @ Black Kite

B.art.vfx Studio

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

Dan Millar

Sony Music

Cinedyne Films

Andrew Rawson

Natasha Jenkins

Justyn Moro

Rag'n'Bone Man & P!nk 'Anywhere Away From Here' by Joe Connor & Tim Mattia

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Released to tie-in with the release of his acclaimed debut feature Get Duked! on Amazon last week, Ninian Doff provides the movie's young quartet of unlikely heroes&nbsp;with a new mission of extreme&nbsp;mischief: an ill-advised break-in at a&nbsp;mansion containing the prized possessions of Run The Jewels and 2 Chainz.&nbsp;The feckless foursome's blundering efforts at a daring heist is overseen at all times by a series of animated portraits, and sculptures, of RTJ's Killer Mike and El-p, and guest star 2 Chainz. They discover the famous RTJ gloves, and some pink jewels giving off some psychotropic properties - and then they go too far.As in Get Duked!, the riotous fun that Doff creates around his characters transitions effortlessly from realistic live action comedy to something way more extreme and cartoonish - shrinking the characters down in a dimension,&nbsp;giving them metallic limbs and sending their faces into supersonic time warps, as they confront giant version of RTJ and 2 Chainz.[imgtoken data:1]It is high concept aesthetic - arguably a big step further from the movie - and it involved a really big production effort including shoots of the artists in New York and Atlanta - with Colin Read providing second unit directing duties - while Doff, aided and abetted by regular DoP Patrick Meller, shot the main action with his Get Duked! cast in the UK.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is a brilliant effort - but to properly enjoy, and get to know and love the characters, go check out the feature first.

United States

Ninian Doff

Drew O'Neill

Pulse Films

Davud Karbassioun

Rik Green

Claire Adcock

Jerome Franc

Jeff Vine

Jenny John Chuan

Jono Yates

Paulina Rzeszowska

Gaby Winwood

Paul O'Reilly

Homespun

Kai Van Beers

Nineteen Twenty

George Reid

Jessica Hayes, Nicole Palucsis  Peter Phillips

Chris King, Chrys Aldred, Adam Mchale, Claire Larkin                   Jamie Stitson

Colin Read

Miranda Kahn

Amaechi Uzoigwe

Cynthia Lawrence-John

Harriet Salmon

Ben Keswick

Ben Carey

Kristian Zuniga

Dylan Harrington

Hip Hop

Run The Jewels ft 2 Chainz 'Out Of Sight' by Ninian Doff

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Cloé Bailly's&nbsp;lovely video for Coldplay's Champion Of The World explores the imagination of a lonely, misunderstood boy - played by Chris Martin - who finds shelter from the pain of the everyday world in his own dreams.&nbsp;He gets bullied at school, and then he gets bullied at home - the nice heart-rending touch is having the 'real' boy, who Chris Martin is playing, is periodically seen too, but always from behind. With every situation, there is a&nbsp;journey from the reality to his world of the imagination: making his tormentors at school disappear, cars taking flight in his suburban neighbourhood so he can cycle in the middle of the road, and eventually seeing&nbsp;his musicmaking dreams lead him to his fellow bandmembers on TV.Bailly's&nbsp;visually expressive and cinematic world&nbsp;is bright, whimsical, and enchanting - a cross between Spielberg's vision of surburbia in&nbsp;ET, and Gondry's music videos, and his movie&nbsp;Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.“It’s about this magic power kids have to switch off from reality and jump into their own world, especially when having to cope with pain," says Bailly. "It’s a timeless story about feeling out of place and not fitting in and how this feeling can be the source of infinite creativity and an endless drive in life.”&nbsp;She adds: “It’s been such an honour to work with Coldplay.&nbsp;They have been so trusting on set, and I am super grateful for them respecting me artistically in the making of this video.”

Cloé Bailly

Tom Birmingham

Caviar

Daniella Manca

La Panda Productions

Elisa Lleras

Derek Bishe

Kim Carney

Danny Ferrell

Edgar Gomez

Heather Denton

Mark Jopling

Justin Holdsworth

Jake Howard

Fernanda Guerrero

Christopher Arias

Beth Fenton

Sienree Du

Beth Crofton-Atkins

Jennifer Cabezas

Bethany Johnson

Hugo Lemant

Coldplay 'Champion Of The World' by Cloé Bailly

Coldplay - Champion Of The World (Official Video)

Warren Fu&#39;s second video for The 1975 sees&nbsp;Matty Healy living out his worst live performance nightmares, which makes for a smartly entertaining visual for It&#39;s Not Living (If It&#39;s Not With You).First of all, Matty&#39;s clean-cut and wearing a suit. That can&#39;t be right for a start. And then when he&#39;s on stage, with his breezily jogging bandmates, a succession of&nbsp;surreal things start happening.&nbsp;The really clever bit is when the hugely distracted Matty leaves the stage, goes through a door and ends up on the set of his last Fu-directed video for <a href="https://www.promonews.tv/videos/2018/11/23/1975-sincerity-scary-warren-fu/56222" target="_blank">Sincerity Is Scary</a>. A clever meta-textual touch.&nbsp;And with the original idea coming from Healy himself - even if its possibly inspired by Alice In Wonderland -&nbsp;is there a more&nbsp;creative&nbsp;pop star in the UK right now?&nbsp;

Warren Fu

Audrey Davenport

Partizan Darkroom

Claire Stubbs

Mayling Wong

Nick Goulden

David Tyler

Oliver Hogan

Kim Rance

Elaine Lynskey

Taylor Walsh

Cabin Edit

Aubrey Woodiwiss

Carbon Vfx

Stephanie Lavington Kaylee Jaiy Taitlyn Jaiy Sasha Asmara

Claire Stubbs @ Mouthpiece

Semera Khan

Ed Blow

Dirty Hit

Rock

The 1975 'It's Not Living (If It's Not With You)' by Warren Fu 

Joe Connor has directed a classic pop video for Sam Smith&#39;s Pray, filmed in one of the most spectacular locations seen in a music video for a long time.The video begins with Sam Smith&nbsp;travelling in a classically stylish&nbsp;speedboat - soon revealed to be speeding across the beautiful Lake Como in Italy. From then on, the video takes place in one of the grandest houses on the shores of the Lake.Performances by the singer and rapper Logic are captured in its&nbsp;exquisitely furnished rooms, together with supplementary performances by dancers as Connor starts to subvert the perfection of the location with memorably bold imagery.&nbsp;As Connor explains below, after the powerful lyrics of the song his inspirations came from Edgar Allan Poe and Caravaggio.This is the second video that Joe Connor has directed for Sam Smith, with the previous one for One Last Song shot within London&#39;s most iconic theatre, The Palladium. But that seems like a mere aperitif&nbsp;to the breathtaking majesty of this one.[imgtoken data:1]

Chief Productions

Colin Offland

Happy MC

Dom Murgia

Michella De Rossi

Georgie Winter

Ian McLaughlin

George K

John Moule

Sam Smith ft Logic 'Pray' by Joe Connor

Sam Smith - Pray (Official Video) ft. Logic

Filled with intense highs and lows, Emil Nava captures the honest, intimate confessions of love from Eminem and Ed Sheeran in the compelling new video River.

Emil Nava

Amy James

Ammolite Inc

Evrard Salomon

Frank Mobilio

Dawn Boonyachalito (la)

Jenn Hanchin (la)

Sean Fazende

JC Molina

Cut+Run

Mark Connell

Tommy Labuda

Kathy Angstadt

Aftermath / Interscope Records

Seth Levin

Rebecca Mason

OB Management

Eminem 'River' by Emil Nava

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Joe Connor&#39;s video for Sam Smith starts on stage at the London Palladium. But this begins where the public performance ends.The video for One Last Song reflects the intimacy of the message by having Smith perform it as he&#39;s walking backstage through this iconic London theatre in a near one shot. A bravura, wonderfully choreographed piece, in which Connor has Britain&#39;s premier pop balladeer&nbsp;ending up on the roof - and somewhere else entirely.

Peter Lee Scott

Barbara Nanna

Chris Kelly

Robert Gilmour

Julian Morson

Tom Stansfield

Suzette Brissett

Luke Moran-Morris

Verity May Lane

Martin McLean

Paul Edmonds

Helen Oke

Freddie Bonfanti

Singer-songwriter

Sam Smith 'One Last Song' by Joe Connor

Sam Smith - One Last Song (Official Video)

Calvin Harris and a star-studded line-up of Pharrell, Katy Perry and Big Sean embark on a hyper-stylized island getaway in the new music video &lsquo;Feels&rsquo; directed by Emil Nava.Shying away from the highly-polished gloss of videos previous, Emil Nava goes for a purposefully degraded look in this clip, which sees the megastars live it up on their own summer time sets (big twist: they&#39;re all the&nbsp;same&nbsp;set!). The footage is grainy, the colours&nbsp;warp into strange realms of contrast&nbsp;and cross processing and Calvin Harris is relegated to playing the bass. A great summer trip in more ways than one that really embraces its stylish artificiality.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Maryann Tanedo

Knoko Chapple

Jimmy Ward, Simon England

Nathan Stern, Justin Zaffiro

Alex Pacion

Cactus Plant, Jamie Schneider Mizrahi

Chris Appleton, Ruslan Nureev

Hung Vanngo

Brian Mulvey

Mike O'Keefe

Sony

Calvin Harris Ft. Pharrell, Katy Perry, Big Sean 'Feels' by Emil Nava

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Emil Nava teams up with ex-One Direction heartthrob Liam Payne and Migos member Quavo for the slick, colourful Strip That Down.We all know Emil Nava is a dab hand with a slick and polished pop video and this is no exception. Moody lighting that washes the space with colour and a background that contrasts gorgeously with the performer - Nava has his complimentary colour theory nailed down perfectly here. This is what make&#39;s Liam&#39;s black &amp; white performance to camera all the more visually impactful - the video becomes a montage of contrasts and eye-catching visual stimuli.

Amalia Rosen-Rawlings

Javier Alejandro

Sam Alberg

Chloe Brady

Marisa Garner Associates

Capitol Records

Liam Payne ft. Quavo 'Strip That Down' by Emil Nava

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For someone of his experience, working with so many of the world&#39;s biggest pop artists, when Emil Nava says his new video for Tinie Tempah is like nothing he has ever done before, it makes you sit up and take notice.&nbsp;But that is indeed the case with the film for Chasing Flies. It provides a captivating insight into the life of a young rapper based in Reading called Stoner&nbsp;- for reasons that are immediately obvious. His life is expertly sketched in a production that is notable for its authenticity and intimacy; a layered portrait of young Britrish masculinity&nbsp;- and also a standout&nbsp;work in Emil Nava&#39;s glittering&nbsp;career.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;

Tinie Tempah

Neil Flaherty

Vicky Hanna

Joe Nava

Cristina Squyres

Sam Seager

Pop, Hip Hop

Tinie Tempah ft. Nea 'Chasing Flies' by Emil Nava

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Joe Connor's long-awaited, hauntingly beautiful ice-dancer video for Coldplay's Everglow is finally here.&nbsp;Commissioned by the band but then withheld from being&nbsp;the official video for the track, Connor's work has nevertheless avoided the fate of numerous canned videos that never see the light of day (as discussed at length in a feisty panel at MusicVidFest last November)&nbsp;by receiving Coldplay's assent for this latterday release. And it's wonderful that Connor's&nbsp;exceptional video is finally available.&nbsp;The clip focuses on an ice dancer (Tanja&nbsp;Kolbe) who is coping with loss. We see her dancing, apparently on her own - until it slowly becomes clear she is in fact dancing with a partner who is no longer visible, on a rink that has become part of a natural landscape.&nbsp;The sequence is paced beautifully and builds subtly - courtesy of superb VFX work undetaken by the team at Cherry Cherry – before ripping it all away for a heartbreaking final few shots.

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