Producer

Sarah Tognazzi

Bouha Kazmi&#39;s video for legendary French band&nbsp;Indochine&rsquo;s Station 13&nbsp;is not for the fainthearted. Visceral, brutal and harrowing, it&#39;s also an extraordinary&nbsp;achievement.Kazmi apparently takes us into the mid-century struggles for civil rights. It&#39;s a beautifully dramatised scenario that instantly evokes the battles against segregation in the American South, and against Apartheid in South Africa. But Kazmi adds another, almost&nbsp;biblical dimension to proceedings.The black men who are being serially persecuted and beaten by police are revealed to be angels on Earth. The stark, dramatic black and white images - beautifully shot by&nbsp;Kaname Onoyama - are redolent of classic Magnum photography, but they are influenced just as much by the religious painting of Caravaggio and Rubens.The themes of racism, suffering, police brutality are delivered with operatic gravity, leading to an almost unbearable finale - the ripping of an angel&#39;s wings from his body, in front of a crowd of onlookers.It is harrowing, but also unforgettable: the most powerful indictment of man&#39;s perpetual weakness - the impulse&nbsp;to try to destroy what he does not understand and therefore fears.

France

Bouha Kazmi

London Alley

Jess Bell

Colin Greyvensteyn

Westley Durand

Kaname Onoyama

Laurence Bishop

Moira Meyer

Nikkila Mann

John Holloway

Portobello Post

Joseph Bicknell

CHEAT

Gloria FX

OB Management

Sony Music France

Rock

Indochine 'Station 13' by Bouha Kazmi

Indochine-'Station-13'-by-Bouha-Kazmi

Greg&nbsp;Davenport&#39;s long-awaited video for Rag&#39;n&#39;Bone Man&#39;s Skin charts the story of a young boy who is possibly the last boy on Earth.Rag&#39;n&#39;Bone Man himself provides a prologue to what follows, with an a cappella rendition of the song.&nbsp;Then we are with the boy as he travels through through unforgiving&nbsp;yet breathtaking terrain &ndash; the video was shot amid epic landscapes in Kazakhstan &ndash; in a relentless search&nbsp;to find a semblance of humanity. &nbsp;

United Kingdom

Greg Davenport

Jack Bradley

BOLD

Rob Godbold

Stanislav Kotyay

Andrew Morozov

Pat Scola

Sasha Ahrimenko

Ivan Zaytsev

Anna Laznya

Yulia Mukasheva

Cut+Run

Simon Bourne

Framestore

Chris Anthony

Alibek Bakhitov, Alisher Bakhitov

Laura Clayton

Sony Music

Viktoria Kotyay

Tanya Neistova

Danil Kim

Chris Roebuck

Rag'n'Bone Man 'Skin' by Greg Davenport

Rag'n'bone-Man-'Skin'-by-Greg-Davenport

Greg Davenport casts the story of two girls who despite their best efforts, can&#39;t get enough of each other. A beautiful, meditative piece of choreography married with narrative is set against the imposing, yet alluring backdrop of Soviet-era urban architecture.

Olya Kosenko

Jane Yatsuta

Nick Semko

Grits Makarenko

Nadim Carlsen

Sergey Panteleev

Martynenkov Dmitriy

Yuri Reznichenko

Andrew Shtern

Coffee Post

Andrew Rogovchenko

Alina Loshyna, Elizabeth Pentsarskaya, Vanya Karpenko

Dan Curwin

Atlantic

Radioaktive Film

Ruslan Makhov

Indie

Frightened Rabbit 'Get Out' by Greg Davenport

Frightened-Rabbit-'Get-Out'-by-Greg-Davenport

Tom Haines has directed this subtly performed, character-led video&nbsp;for New Order&#39;s second single Tutti Frutti, from their latest album Music Complete.&nbsp;In it, Italian actor&nbsp;Ricky Tognazzi (father of MVA-winning producer Sarah Tognazzi) brilliantly plays&nbsp;a freshly dismissed television show host&nbsp;who has clearly enjoyed&nbsp;a long career in the business. And as we follow him through the winding backstage corridors, it becomes clear that he,&nbsp;understandably,&nbsp;isn&#39;t&nbsp;taking the news too well.But once the downtrodden ex-host reaches the stage, a proper meltdown begins&nbsp;as a particularly strong&nbsp;defence mechanism&nbsp;grants him ability to relive the excitement&nbsp;one last time...

Tom Haines

Benjamin Begovic

Division Slovenia

Steve Annis

Ameena Kara Callender

Monika Lorber

Natasa Rogelj

Tina Hribernik

Mare Filipic

Mitja Popovski

Dan Sherwen

Kit Wells

Final Cut

James Banford

The Mill

Coffee & TV

James Cobbold

750MPH

John Moule

Alexa Haywood at Free Agent UK

Indie Rock

New Order 'Tutti Frutti' by Tom Haines

New Order - Tutti Frutti (Official Video)

It&#39;s been ready for a while, but now that vocals by Queen Bey have sprinkled stardust on the track,&nbsp;one of the most spectacular videos of the year is finally out. And Charlie Robins&#39; jawdropping video for Naughty Boy&#39;s Runnin (Lose It All) has to be an underwater-shot music video like none before it: a love story of a couple destined to&nbsp;come together by the fact they appear to live (and&nbsp;to run) under the sea.As with his video for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/05/13/klangkarussell-netzwerk-falls-rain-charlie-robins" target="_blank">Klangkarussell&#39;s Netzwerk</a> last year, Charlie Robins&#39;&nbsp;inspiration has come from studying an extraordinary&nbsp;exponent&nbsp;of an extreme&nbsp;pursuit. In this case it was free-diving world champion Guillaume Nery, and his filmmaker partner and fellow free-diver Julie Gautier, and their film Ocean Gravity. It led to a collaboration&nbsp;&ndash; and this video has been&nbsp;co-directed by Gautier with Robins -&nbsp;that&#39;s&nbsp;a&nbsp;majestic accompaniment to the song.&nbsp;&quot;It wasn&rsquo;t an easy video to get off the ground initially, though [commissioner]&nbsp;James Hackett was a firm believer from the moment we pitched Charlie&rsquo;s idea to him in a brief email,&quot; explains producer Sarah Tognazzi.&nbsp;&quot;Strangely enough, James had already contacted Guillaume &amp; Julie himself when initially hearing the track. This created an enormous synergy from everyone involved to get this video made.&quot;There was only one place that an idea which required Nery to run along the sea-bed, and co-star (and fellow free diving champion) Alice Modolo to run upside down under the surface of the water, could be achieved. That was&nbsp;a small channel off the coast of Rangiroa, a tiny atoll in French Polynesia, off the coast of Tahiti. With&nbsp;crystalline waters, 27 C water temperature, a shallow depth of only 15 meters, allowing the sun to light the scene naturally, and the strongest current in the world, this was also where Nery and Gautier shot Ocean Gravity.&quot;These natural conditions allowed for the magical underwater effects to be achieved entirely in-camera, beautifully shot on the Dragon by Jacques Ballard, who had previously collaborated with Guillaume and Julie,&quot; explains Tognazzi.As a result this video manages that very rare thing - to look impossible and real at the same time.&nbsp;

Charlie Robins

Forever

Sasha Nixon

Jacques Ballard

Arthur Lauters

Leo King

Stitch

Paul Harrison

Finish

Alice Modolo

Guillaume Nery

James Hackett

Virgin Emi Records

Julie Gautier Of Les Films Engloutis

Davo McConville

Pop, Dance

Naughty Boy ft Beyoncé & Arrow Benjamin 'Runnin' (Lose It All)' by Charlie Robins

Naughty-Boy-Ft-Beyonce-&-Arrow-Benjamin--'Runnin'-(lose-It-All)'-by-Charlie-Robins.-Co-director:-Julie-Gautier-Of-Les-Films-Engloutis

Weronika Tofilska delivers some gorgeous&nbsp;visual poetry&nbsp;for&nbsp;Lauren Aquilina&#39;s song Ocean, with its&nbsp;lovely photographic qualities (excellent work by DoP&nbsp;Krzysztof Trojnar)&nbsp;rendered even more beautiful and melancholic by delicate overlays of&nbsp;seascapes, waves and tides, that incrementally occupy the screen.&nbsp;

Weronika Tofilska

Krzysztof Trojnar

Ollie Craig

Martine Wolff

Maarten Alexander

Esme Buxton

Lauren Grant

Sian Duke

Charlie Reddie

Matt Osbourne

Simone Zuccarini (compositing)

Ailsa Robertson

Island Records

Indie, singer-songwriter

Lauren Aquilina 'Ocean' by Weronika Tofilska

Lauren-Aquilina-'Ocean'-by-Weronika-Tofilska

Charlie Robins and Joe Alexander disbanded their&nbsp;directing partnership&nbsp;(aka Charlie &amp; Joe) last year to go their separate ways, and on to various individual projects.&nbsp;But they&#39;ve&nbsp;rejoined forces for old time&#39;s sake,&nbsp;to create this high energy video for&nbsp;Tinie Tempah&#39;s No Letting Go&nbsp;featuring girl-of-the-moment&nbsp;Jess Glynne.The video sees&nbsp;Tempah performing his hip-hop serenade&nbsp;in his native London, with Jess providing the warm vocals for the infectiously&nbsp;catchy&nbsp;chorus. Charlie &amp; Joe&nbsp;took the opportunity to start a&nbsp;dance party on a sunny&nbsp;spring day - and despatching the old saw that you should&nbsp;&#39;never go back.&#39;

Joe Alexander

Mike Carr

Jerome Franc

Richard Stewart

Alexandra Voikou

Chris Rusby

Sam Alberg

Louis Ruscombe-King

Nil Tomakan

Carl Campbell

Vid Price

The Assembly Rooms

Sam Seager

Parlophone

Matt Allsop

Tinie Tempah ft Jess Glynne 'Not Letting Go' by Charlie Robins And Joe Alexander

Tinie-Tempah-'Not-Letting-Go'-by-Charlie-Robins-And-Joe-Alexander

Delving into the UK&#39;s burgeoning shape cutting scene, director Joe Alexander shines a light on the dancers - also known as foot shufflers -&nbsp;whose Youtube videos, filmed on mobile phones, attract thousands of hits and inspire a community, in this video for David Zowie&#39;s track House Every Weekend.From the House Warmers dance class to House of Silk at the Scala, the video for House Every Weekend is a heartfelt paean to an underground scene that holds the dance as&nbsp;a means&nbsp;of expression as well as&nbsp;a movement.

Chris Clarke

Ian Coffey

Eira Wyn Jones

Chris Amfo

Paul O'Reilly

Homespun

Houmam Abdallah

Electric Theatre Collective

Mr Shapes, Puffdahouseman, Laylayfyffe, Ev-o-lution, Stephan

Virgin EMI

David Zowie 'House Every Weekend' by Joe Alexander

David-Zowie-'House-Every-Weekend'-by-Joe-Alexander

Rae Morris takes a walk in the countryside in Charlie Robins&#39;&nbsp;simple yet sophisticated&nbsp;performance promo for Love Again &ndash; starting at dusk.When darkness falls, Rae&#39;s&nbsp;emotions are illuminated by&nbsp;impressive&nbsp;pyrotechnics and explosive lighting treatments, all working to great effect, and effectively captured by Richard Stewart&#39;s camera.&nbsp;

Lizzy Mazer

Eve Carreno

Chris Stones

Michelle Kelly

Carol Morley

James Wright

TenThree

Richard Fearon

Rae Morris 'Love Again' by Charlie Robins

Rae-Morris-'Love-Again'-by-Charlie-Robins

Ian Pons Jewell takes the director&#39;s chair for the promo to Paolo Nutini&#39;s One Day, the latest single to be taken from his platinum album Caustic Love.Ian&#39;s rather brilliant and&nbsp;lavish video is a homage to the classic Giallo genre of Italian erotic horror films &ndash; and heading up a large cast is none other than&nbsp;British national treasure Joanna Lumley - making her first ever music video&nbsp;- playing an intriguing nightclub singer, who has her own ways of attaining eternal&nbsp;youth.We asked Ian all about the making of the video...How did Joanna Lumley become involved&nbsp;to play what is for her, an&nbsp;unexpected role &ndash; and how did she handle the pressure of a music video shoot?Ian Pons Jewell: We were always intent on getting a known actress for the main role, but it was Paolo&#39;s idea to try for Joanna Lumley as he&#39;s big fan. I was brought up on Ab Fab, so it was a surreal dream come true to work with her. She was an absolute pleasure to work with, but most importantly an incredible talent. She had never done a music video and expressed some nerves about singing the lyrics, but completely nailed it. It was nerve-wracking in the run up to the shoot as there was so much we had to get, mixed with this iconic actress coming for half of the full on day&#39;s shoot. But the whole production was handled incredibly by Residency, my US reps, and&nbsp;Sarah Tognazzi&#39;s next level producer skills.&nbsp;How did you come about the&nbsp;concept of the video, and how does it relate to the song?The idea came about from the first listen actually, an image came to mind of an older elegant singer in a dressing room, singing to herself sadly in the mirror. After more listens the idea of her killing the young dancers to gain their youth was then worked in, using the classic Italian Giallo killer character as her servile hitman. I then worked closely with Dobi Manolova to write the characters in the lounge type area, with her also coming up with the beautiful visual idea of the aerial dancer which gave a much needed energy for that first chorus section. The characters were then fully brought to life by the amazing Ameena Kara Callender who is the costume designer on much of my work.It was a very subconcious connection to the song, but I think it matches well with the final lyrics of &quot;I&#39;ll be gone in a while&quot;. This really pushes the idea for me how this youthful appearance she is addicted to gaining is only ever temporary.&nbsp;I would also like to mention my incredible editor Gaia Borretti,&nbsp;who has cut all my work to date. She actually created a mood film for our initial pitch, with the murder sequence which she cut from old Italian horror films actually informing the final shotlist and shoot.Why does Joanna transform into a younger woman in the latter point of the video?&nbsp;She transforms to a younger woman due to the murder of the aerial dancer. The intention of the montage of other murders was to try to show that it is a ritual, that there have been others, that it is perhaps a nightly occurance. Through wearing the necklace of the girl, she summons her youthful spirit to then transform to a younger version of herself in order to perform one song for the crowd. The backstory is that she is the singer who never ages, a sort of classy circus freak show act.And this is the next video, after Iron Sky, where Paolo is not on-screen. How involved was he in the creative process?&nbsp;He was originally meant to be watching the performance from the back of the space, seeing him subtly in the scene, but was unable to attend the shot due to illness. Though he never stipulated a need for him to be in the video so it worked well either way. I felt incredibly free with the creative, but also due to Dan Curwin who was an absolute joy to work with. They overlooked everything in a very hands-off manner. I think if Paolo is into an idea, he buys into it and lets it fully develop without much interference. I think this is clear with the incredible Iron Sky video.Paolo&nbsp;then wanted more a film look, so Sarah had the idea to get a 35mm print done of the first grade which was all digital, which added a lot to the final look. Ben Fordesman absolutely nailed the look with his beautiful cinematography and Luke Morrison at The Mill then did an incredible job going between the grade, printing to 35mm, then taking it back in for the final colour.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Ian Pons Jewell

Residency

Marieta Blaskova

Gaetan Rousseau

Lauren Hedges

Ben Fordesman

Richard Lewis

Dom Aronin

Jillie Murphy

Sarah Jenneson

Liberty Shaw

James Dyer

Lana Salfiti

Gaia Borretti

Luke Morrison

Samantha Letzler

Terri Cappon

Michael Sarabia

Alt Soul

Paolo Nutini 'One Day' by Ian Pons Jewell

Paolo Nutini - One Day (Official Video)

In his promo for Oliver Heldens&#39; Koala, Remy Cayuela blurs the lines between science and fantasy.&nbsp;Shot as &#39;found footage&#39; recorded by the professor and his assistant after they develop a unique formula, the prof - in his search for the elusive youth elixir -&nbsp;becomes&nbsp;the formula&#39;s first human trial...

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