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Taylor Brusky

Nelson De Castro directs a&nbsp;story of self-reflection for Waze &amp; Odyssey's Always, that toys with viewer's perceptions - and is not diminished by referencing the&nbsp;classic video for the original track.&nbsp;Utilising a seamless blend of practical and digital mirroring effects, the concept for De Castro's video for the remix of Always - written by Stevie Wonder in the '70s, covered by George Michael and Mary J Blige in the '90s - takes place in a diner, where De Castro playfully switches between different types of doubles. At first it's mirror FX, and then the mirror breaks down,&nbsp;interweaves and disconnect (literally) at cleverly timed moments.The beauty of the video lies in how the skill&nbsp;of the choroegraphy, and the&nbsp;cast - led by the Huber twins, Allison and Veronica&nbsp;- gently emerges.&nbsp;Eddie Inda's wonderful art direction helps hide the subtle transitions, creating brilliantly surreal copies of clocks, sprawling menus that overlap corners and intricate coffee stains.Combined with DoP Jeff Leeds Cohn's complex yet striking cinematography, De Castro has orchestrated&nbsp;one of his most successful videos - particularly in this director's cut. Here, he also includes excerpts from George Michael and Mary J Blige's own remarkable video for Always - by directing duo Big TV!"We designed, built and cast a perfectly mirrored world, down to the last drop of spilled coffee." he says. "It allowed us to intercut simple digital-mirror effects like an on/off switch." It's a mesmerising, thoroughly entertaining&nbsp;trip.

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Nelson De Castro

Briana Goldberg

Little Ugly

Kimberly Stuckwisch

Jesse McClung

Tim Kerigan

Michael Coursey

Jeff Leeds Cohn

Daniel Ajemian

Tessa Kier

Pierre Habib

Eddie Inda

Meredith Peebles

Kimtsy Sanchez

Jacob Mckee

Naheem Adio

Bryan Fugal

OB Management

Kat Cattaneo

Ministry of Sound

Sony Music

Waze & Odyssey, George Michael, Mary J. Blige & Tommy Theo 'Always' (Director's Cut) by Nelson De Castro

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Carlos Lopez Estrada teams up with half•alive's&nbsp;Josh Taylor, to&nbsp;tell a story via dance and inventive set design for&nbsp;Runaway.The Long Beach band are best known for their single Still Feel, and its <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOOhPfMbuIQ" target="_blank">inventive, choreography-heavy video</a> directed by Taylor. Here they explore&nbsp;a young woman's revelation, as&nbsp;she delves into her past, through letters left behind by her father. As a scene from her memory plays out behind her, her own world closes in upon her.&nbsp;

United States

Carlos Lopez Estrada

Josh Taylor

Sammi Farber

Neil Garvey

Matt Wise

Tyler Jensen

Madelaine Turner

Melora Donoghue

Alyson Black-barrie

Gregory Reese

Ben Kadie

Reprobates

Nicholas Robespierre

Neil Garvey, Melora Donoghue, Kimberly Stuckwisch, Jesse Mcclung

Indie

Rock

half•alive 'Runaway' by Carlos Lopez Estrada & Josh Taylor

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Carlos Lopez Estrada and Jeff Desom give us the whole incredible story of&nbsp;Israeli megastars Static and Ben El&#39;s meteoric rise from loafing couch jockeys to global superstars... and finally,&nbsp;when all Earthly options are exhausted (including the movie and the inevitable Broadway offshoot) interplanetary explorers. All thanks to a very precocious young&nbsp;man, who gives them the heads-up on the important message of Tudo Bom.So be prepared for unicorns, aliens, J Balvin, large group choreographies, rocket ships, and&nbsp;probably kitchen sinks too. It&#39;s bonkers, but that&#39;s okay. Everything is Tudo Bom, apparently...&nbsp;

Jeff Desom

Ethan Feldbau

Vitaly Verlov, Andres Jamarillo, Ben Kadie, Tim Hendrix, Tanner Merrill

Targa Sahyoun

Saban Music

Static & Ben El with J Balvin 'Tudo Bom' by Carlos Lopez Estrada & Jeff Desom

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Little Ugly&nbsp;directors Chris Muir and Carlos Lopez Estrada team up to bring visuals to this feelgood&nbsp;Samm Henshaw&nbsp;ft.&nbsp;EarthGang&nbsp; track Church.It&#39;s a lovely thing, with Samm motoring to the church on his little cloud, and the Earthgang boys streaking in on their matching meteors.&nbsp;And by no means the first lovely Samm Henshaw video either.

Chris Muir

Melissa Kyle

Madeleine Paul

Ian Mcclellan

Patrick Jones

Quinn Brudos-sommers

Jessica Garrison

Abigale Francis

Bunny Armendariz

Dylan Hagemann

Laura Clayton

Soul

Samm Henshaw ft Earthgang 'Church' by Chris Muir, Carlos Lopez Estrada 

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Nelson De Castro and Carlos López Estrada join forces for another team-up to propel George Ezra on a marvellous surreal journey that comes over like a beautiful live-action cartoon.&nbsp;While George remains resolutely himself, he finds his dreams of holidays in the sun becoming a rotating reality - his flat world turns upside down to reveal a new scene, over and over again, which ends up floating in space...&nbsp;This is old school VFX fun, brilliantly executed by this extremely talented directing pair and their team.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Jennifer Goodridge

Camille Benton

Chad Nicholson

John Schmidt

Alejandro Taylor

Singer-songwriter

George Ezra 'Shotgun' by Nelson De Castro and Carlos López Estrada

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Andrew Donoho presents the ultimate road trip video for Jai Wolf&rsquo;s Indian Summer, in which Andrew and a small screw scaled across the landscapes of Southern California to capture this authentic lifestyle piece.

Andrew Donoho

Justin Kappenstein

Diktator

Ian Blair

Boyd Hobbes

Sajeeb Saha

Jai Wolf 'Indian Summer' by Andrew Donoho

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I wonder if Carlos Lopez Estrada ever imagined his career would include a &#39;Sheep Choreography&#39; credit. I&#39;m sure within his eclectic repertoire and his increasingly far-reaching collaborations with Watsky he must be aware now that anything is possible.Set in a cartoonish dreamscape inside a kid&#39;s head, Watsky plays the shepherd of the sheep the young boy must have been counting in order to get to sleep in the first place (because someone&#39;s gotta look after them, right?!) It starts out harmoniously enough - sheep choreography et al &ndash; but unfortunately for Watsky it all seems to go awry quite quickly.Sheep die left, right and centre before being resurrected in a nightmarish fashion. None of that seems to bother the little kid though...

Albert Salas

Fernanda Guerrero

Ryan Ross

Andres Jaramillo

Tanner Merrill

Danny Madden

Michael O'Connor

Tyler Roth

Alonso Mejia

Corinna Martinez

Alonso Mejía Silva

Martin Roker at Black Dog Films

Watsky 'Stick To Your Guns' by Carlos Lopez Estrada

Watksy - "Stick to Your Guns"

After the knockabout, boxing match fun of <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2016/08/11/watsky-ft-mal-devisa-midnight-heart-carlos-lopez-estrada" target="_blank">Midnight Heart</a>, San Franciscan rapper and slam poet George&nbsp;Watsky swiftly resumes his collaborating with Carlos Lopez Estrada, and the video for Brave New World is a corker.&nbsp;You know those cutout paper dolls you can dress up? There&#39;s quite a good paper doll book&nbsp;for Taylor Swift, in fact, but luckily&nbsp;these guys have appropriated the idea for a video before Swifty did. Watsky becomes the human doll, with different costumes and&nbsp;mind-boggling clothes combos falling on him then flying off every couple of seconds.The speed of change and variety of costumes is&nbsp;mind-boggling, which makes it a must for repeated viewings. Less obvious is the VFX that makes clothes fly on and fly off Watksy&#39;s body - that must have taken ages and its&nbsp;achieved brilliantly.&nbsp;Great stuff.&nbsp;

Jordan Allen

Tim Hendrix

Derek King

Sandra Miguelli

Fernanda Vélez

Contenido Neto

Watsky 'Brave New World' by Carlos Lopez Estrada

Watksy - "Brave New World"

Nelson de Castro and Carlos Lopez Estrada, both highly successful music video directors in their own right, have paired up to create this excellent video for Hook N Sling&#39;s Break Yourself. And it&#39;s a match made in heaven - or at least somewhere shrouded in fog...&nbsp;Out of the misty gloom, we travel back and forth up the centre aisle of a bus - initially a typical high school bus into which a boy climbs aboard and faces that&nbsp;age-old qualm about who to sit next to. Like something out of the&nbsp;Twilight Zone,&nbsp;this action is repeated with the lad encountering an ever-changing cast of passengers, and variations on previous groups, including&nbsp;possessed children with red, glowing eyes,&nbsp;rowdy jocks and cheerleaders headed to a game,&nbsp;and a&nbsp;church congregation complete with priest and thurifer.&nbsp;The dreamlike sequences&nbsp;also includes a carcrash, treated with the same degree of lighthearted absurdity, leading straight into the next sequence as if nothing happened.It&#39;s an auspicious first collaboration between the two directors - and they also now&nbsp;have&nbsp;a new Vimeo account &#39;Nelson y Carlos&#39;. An indication that&nbsp;there&#39;s more collaborations to come, perhaps?&nbsp;&nbsp;

Zach Wechter

Danielle Hinde

Doomsday Entertainment

Niko Wiesnet

Britt Keller

Jordy Scheinberg

Genghis Jorgensen

Jocelyn Webber

Alissa Torvinen

Hook N Sling ft. Far East Movement 'Break Yourself' by Nelson de Castro and Carlos Lopez Estrada

Hook N Sling - "Break Yourself"

After his superb videos last year for <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/09/08/clipping-inside-out-carlos-lopez-estrada" target="_blank">Inside Out</a>&nbsp;and <a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2014/06/04/clipping-work-work-carlos-lopez-estrada" target="_blank">Work Work</a>, Carlos Lopez Estrada&#39;s video for&nbsp;Clipping&#39;s Summertime is arguably the best of the lot.&nbsp;Described&nbsp;simply as &#39;a film about identity,&#39; Estrada has&nbsp;superimposed cutouts of Clipping&#39;s&nbsp;lipsyncing face on unsuspecting pedestrians, beach-dwellers and fast food servers.&nbsp;Estrada interprets the track&#39;s theme about growing up in LA&nbsp;through this&nbsp;hilarious&nbsp;and captivating effect.Fine ladies&nbsp;in bikinis, sunny&nbsp;beaches,&nbsp;dealing with&nbsp;cops, riding around sunny LA and ordering loads of fast food...&nbsp;We&#39;re in Clipping&#39;s world now, and what more entertaining way to illustrate West-Coast&nbsp;culture could there be?&nbsp;

Nicholas Weisnet

Thomas Bailey

Jared Wennberg

Zora Ellis

Ben Mullinkosson

Paul Santagada, Max Belin, Naheem Adio

Todd Banhazl

Clipping 'Summertime' by Carlos Lopez Estrada

Clipping - "Summertime"

To say Carlos Lopez Estrada is on a roll would be an understatement. After his wonderfully bonkers video for&nbsp;<a href="http://www.promonews.tv/videos/2015/02/19/black-taxi-take-edge-carlos-lopez-estrada" target="_blank">Black Taxi</a>, and shortly before his latest brilliant video for Clipping&nbsp;(that&#39;s coming here very soon), Carlos directed this lovely thing for another Carlos &ndash; Swiss artist Carlos Leal&#39;s Disco Ball.So how do you turn a man into a mirrorball? Just leave it to Carlos - and Carlos.&nbsp;

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Natasha Kutrovacz

Niels Lindelien

The Jordan Freda Company

Jason Kummerfeldt

Sony Switzerland

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Leal 'Disco Ball' by Carlos Lopez Estrada  

LEAL - "DISCO BALL"

In his promo for Black Taxi&#39;s Take Off The Edge, director&nbsp;Carlos Lopez Estrada seemlessly mixes live action and animation in this insight&nbsp;into an hilarious night of a quirky couple...

Paul Holman

David Edsall

Matt Tompkins

Arjun Prakash

Zora Ellis, Carlos Lopez Estrada

Cameron Clark

Iordanis Kioumourtzoglou

James Lees

Brooke Webber

Tye Whipple

Cristina Bercovitz

Naheem Kujenya

Black Taxi 'Take Off The Edge' by Carlos Lopez Estrada

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LA duo MYPET team up with Carlos Lopez Estrada for the promo to new single Pays To Know. Estrada gets back to nature with this fairytale promo of sorts - a forest's plants and creatures come to life, getting off on the band's electronic pop...

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