2018

Emma Zakes Green

Emma Zakes Green

1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?My first professionally directed work was an original folk opera called The Dryway, about three mermaid sisters cursed to exile on land by their mother. It was featured in the 2016 Company Creation Festival at Son of Semele in Los Angeles. This piece was…

Brett Warkentien

Brett Warkentien

1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?A :60 content piece for Campbell’s Chunky Soup, September 2015. Filmed five NFL players in a comedic gameshow format. 2) How did you get into directing? I started my career in advertising as a creative but had always wanted to pursue filmmaking. The years I…

Celine Tricart

Celine Tricart

1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?My first spot was for the organization Women In Film to direct a PSA for “River LA”. I had only DPed branded content before that. I went scouting without any pre-conceived idea of what my shots were going to be. I let the locations…

Bartley Taylor

Bartley Taylor

1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?I like to consider my first spec, a Volkswagen ad, my first professionally directed work. It was the first thing where I really felt like I needed to please someone other than just myself. I had to attempt to fake something so well that…

Duncan Sullivan

Duncan Sullivan

1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?The first professional project I directed was a branded content documentary film titled Brothers of Climbing for REI Coop. The film was released in February 2017. 2) How did you get into directing? After spending several years working my way up through the camera department from AC…

Casey Stein

Casey Stein

1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?My first real gig as a director was for Def Jam Records. They asked me to document Alessia Cara’s very first concert in June of 2015. It’s funny looking back now, we were both so young and nervous. She was seventeen at the time…

Christian Schilling

Christian Schilling

1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?My first professionally directed work, which gained more attention was “Kill the Noise”, a spec-commercial for the German ear plug brand Ohropax. It was a project of my second year at the Filmacademy Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2016. 2) How did you get into directing? It all…

Brad Raider

Brad Raider

1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?My first professional gig as writer/director was a micro-budget feature called Kensho at the Bedfellow, an existential drama about a guy in NYC searching for fulfillment in all the wrong places. After winning a few festivals and being selected as the inaugural film of…

Shaya Mulcahy

Shaya Mulcahy

1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?I have independently developed and financed all my creative work for the screen. I am currently seeking professional directing work. 2) How did you get into directing? I started directing theatre in high school and went on to study theatre directing in college. I was…

Matteo J. Mosterts

Matteo J. Mosterts

1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?I directed my first short film in 2015 – it was a 10-minute quirky comedy short called Wally’s Will about an unlikeable, eccentric, and aristocratic older lady, who fights to uphold her crumbling old-money empire against friends, enemies, and some unexpected conspiracies. Wally’s character was…