1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?A short film for CBC (Canadian public broadcaster) called How to Age Gracefully. 2) How did you get into directing? I went to school for photography and had been working as a skateboard photographer for many years when I began to learn how to make…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it? It was a PSA with Cyndi Lauper, just a couple years ago. On set, she called me Cecil B. DeMille, because I wanted the camera at eye level and she wanted it much higher. Needless to say, it was a really good lesson in…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?In Spring of 2015 the kind people at Cercone Brown hired me to direct an integrated campaign for Rockport shoes. Across broadcast, digital, and print we profiled a series of “daily adventurers”—real people who embodied the spirit of the brand in their everyday lives….
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it? Our first professionally directed spot was a slate of two 30s for Cashnet USA in 2015. 2) How did you get into directing? We love telling stories. Blind optimism convinced us to quit our jobs together and start directing. Everyday we wake up, we look…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it? The Brandon Maxwell brand FW 2016 campaign 2) How did you get into directing? We met in college, in 2005, as classmates in the photography department at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. The program encouraged a multidisciplinary approach to visual art, and we both…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?My first professional work as a director was a short film called “Tiebreaker” that I made in 2014. It tells the story of a father and a son fixing details of their relationship while playing a tiebreaker at tennis. 2) How did you get…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it? A corporate video for PPG, a car paint company. I was 22 at the time. 2) How did you get into directing? I just started organizing a crew and went out to shoot some short films. No schooling was needed, I just took to the…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?In 2015, I directed Just Go With It, a commercial fashion web series for Ann Taylor LOFT and that was the first time I worked as a director for hire. 2) How did you get into directing? In college, I was writing screenplays and handing…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?A quirky, 30-second spot for Pie Five Pizza in September, 2016. I directed it for two of my friends, and former colleagues, at The Richards Group, on an impossible budget. It won them Gold at the local Addys. Incredibly satisfying, like the pizzas. 2)…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it? “The Explorers Project” for National Geographic Society in 2014 was my first professionally directed project, and it was the opportunity of a lifetime — I got to travel the world with renowned scientists, artists, activists and thinkers and collaborate with them on intimate films…