2012

Eran Hilleli

Eran Hilleli

How did you get into directing?While studying in the screen-based arts department of Bezalel’s Academy I started making short animated films. Working alone on animated shorts was a great introduction to the process of filmmaking and especially directing such projects.Directing wasn’t a goal for me. It kind of happened out of the love to the…

Hanna Maria Heidrich

Hanna Maria Heidrich

How did you get into directing?I’ve always been fascinated by the power of pictures and started with photography, drawing and painting at an early age. I discovered my love for filmmaking at the age of 19. After forming a VJ group with friends, I went to intern at production companies and agencies before I enrolled…

Marshall Harrington

Marshall Harrington

How did you get into directing?I was called into a meeting by a friend whom that I’d known for a long time, but had never worked with. During the meeting we discussed a wide range of strategies and content of the images they wanted to make alongside conceptual conversation of the projects they intended to…

James Gooding

James Gooding

How did you get into directing?By lots of false starts and hard work. What is your most recent project?A great doc/ad/science project with Droga5, New York, and the upcoming Omega campaign. What is the best part of being a director?Thinking a lot about the work. What is the worst part of being a director?Thinking a…

Robin Fryday

Robin Fryday

How did you get into directing?I had been working as a still photographer but I had a vision for a film.  It was prior to the historic election of 2008 and I felt the stories of the foot soldiers who brought us to this day needed to be told, so I decided to make a…

Everynone

Everynone

How did you get into directing?“Directing” is a funny word. We’re not sure when that term was applied to us but we have been making creative work as individuals for as long as we can remember. Skate videos, family birthday videos and spying on the neighbors are classic beginnings for each of us. What is…

Lawrence Chen

Lawrence Chen

How did you get into directing?When I was in 8th grade I picked up a camera one day and just started yelling at everything: people, pets, inanimate objects, whatever would listen and not yell back. Got a lot of great footage. That was my first directing experience and I haven’t stopped since. What is your…

Ben Callner

Ben Callner

How did you get into directing?I had always messed around with the family video camera.  So when I went to college, it didn’t matter that I wasn’t majoring in film, I still made fun little movies with friends and family.I finally decided to submit a few films into some competitions and was surprised to take…

Chanya Button

Chanya Button

How did you get into directing?I started working as a runner on large scale feature films shooting in the U.K. whilst I was still at school; so I really grew up around filmmaking, learning about every element of film production from working as an assistant director to script reading and research for producers. But it…

Matt Bieler

Matt Bieler

How did you get into directing?Well … I’m too short for the NBA so that goal didn’t really work out. Fortunately the good people at Anonymous Content and Serial Pictures liked a couple little films I made and the directing plan started to take shape. What is your most recent project?The latest job was for…