The financial application’s droll campaign leverages light-hearted wordplay in tales of prompt product description and misunderstandings about the Egyptian slang for ‘immediately’.
This brilliantly animated ad for the home furnishings and DIY chain finds the love in everyday household wares.
TBWA\Chiat\Day and director Omar Jones turn couch potatoes into chic performers in this wildly choreographed number for the denim brand.
Quality Meats and stars Molly Shannon and Tim Meadows create an eerily accurate 90s spoof for the TV brand's upscaling abilities.
The youth welfare non-profit launches a powerful and cinematic short film highlighting the heartbreaking prevalence of child abuse in Mexico.
To celebrate mobile game Boom Beach's tenth year of play, Waste Creative and in-house production studio This Thing of Ours, alongside bakery-artist Emma Jayne Cake Design, have created a tasty diorama.
In a fun spot for the plant-based gum, director Talya Galasko takes a comedic approach to highlighting the single-use plastic in conventional chewing gum.
The chart-topping singer’s single Obsessed gets a new video that brilliantly channels being perturbed by your partner’s past loves.
The financial application’s droll campaign leverages light-hearted wordplay in tales of prompt product description and misunderstandings about the Egyptian slang for ‘immediately’.
This brilliantly animated ad for the home furnishings and DIY chain finds the love in everyday household wares.
TBWA\Chiat\Day and director Omar Jones turn couch potatoes into chic performers in this wildly choreographed number for the denim brand.
Quality Meats and stars Molly Shannon and Tim Meadows create an eerily accurate 90s spoof for the TV brand's upscaling abilities.
The youth welfare non-profit launches a powerful and cinematic short film highlighting the heartbreaking prevalence of child abuse in Mexico.
To celebrate mobile game Boom Beach's tenth year of play, Waste Creative and in-house production studio This Thing of Ours, alongside bakery-artist Emma Jayne Cake Design, have created a tasty diorama.
In a fun spot for the plant-based gum, director Talya Galasko takes a comedic approach to highlighting the single-use plastic in conventional chewing gum.
The chart-topping singer’s single Obsessed gets a new video that brilliantly channels being perturbed by your partner’s past loves.
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Uncommon London's new campaign for IAG Loyalty's Avios points scheme is a beautiful, calm and tranquil film featuring a sea of e-foilers gliding across a placid body of water. Here, director Sam Walker explains that creating the film was not all plain sailing.
Recently off its festival run, Will Webb's quietly emotive short is the story of a sister coming to terms with the death of her brother while searching for meaning in his last request. Inspired by the death of his own brother, Webb discusses the challenges he faced making the film, and the power of using - and not using - music.
More than just a music video, the promo for Hak Baker and Joe Armon-Jones’ track Wrong Side of Town is also a revealing mini-documentary about the duality of an East London neighbourhood bifurcated by gentrification. Knucklehead directing duo Broken Antenna (aka. Gustav Newby and Myles McAuliffe) share how they created their fascinating, mixed-media, genre-splicing film.
A short film recently released after being on the festival circuit features a young couple and a seemingly innocuous question about pornography that opens a metaphorical can of worms.
For this year's social films, the Arrows invited experts from agency, production and post to comment on a tumultuous year for the industry in front of some of the UK's finest vistas. The twist: the 'location' was actually the powerful LED production stage at ARRI Stage London's facilities. shots caught up with the team behind the shoot to find out how they made the virtual a reality.
The music video heavyweight signs with the next-gen production studio for representation.
The Associate Creative Director at Apple and Executive Producer at RSA Films have been killed, alongside their two young sons, in a tragic road accident in San Francisco.
Spiro is an award winning and internationally recognised Film and TV Director and Executive Producer.
De Nexon’s bold, eye-catching work is fast attracting the attention of a multitude of fashion, beauty and sports brands.
Niles brings a unique blend of creativity, strategic vision, and operational expertise to RadicalMedia.
Missing Link Films welcome Honor Northridge to their roster of comedy, performance and visual directors.
The music video heavyweight signs with the next-gen production studio for representation.
The Associate Creative Director at Apple and Executive Producer at RSA Films have been killed, alongside their two young sons, in a tragic road accident in San Francisco.
Spiro is an award winning and internationally recognised Film and TV Director and Executive Producer.
De Nexon’s bold, eye-catching work is fast attracting the attention of a multitude of fashion, beauty and sports brands.
Niles brings a unique blend of creativity, strategic vision, and operational expertise to RadicalMedia.
Missing Link Films welcome Honor Northridge to their roster of comedy, performance and visual directors.
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Request a demoWith a plethora of awards and industry experience under her belt, director B. Monét's work explores diverse themes, underpinned by a dedication to uplifting marginalised voices. She discusses her career journey and inspirations, from participating in Queen Latifah's Queen Collective program to creating authentic content for brands from Disney to Cadillac.
Odelay Films director Jamie Jones's varied career has taken in poetic shorts, ads and reality TV, along with BAFTA-winning long-form drama and docs. Here, he chats to Carol Cooper about finding lightness in dark tales of despair and toxic masculinity and his restless quest to portray the truth of the matter.
For our next unsigned directing talent interview we speak with director Matthieu Livingston. Here we talk about his charming short documentary Wet Paint, getting annoyed with bystanders, and finding the film in the edit.
Short film maker and Bold off-roster director Ola Adediji on revisiting the internet of the past, an Afro-futuristic masterpiece of a short film, and why an animated series about consciousness sparks conversations about the ethical implications of technological advancement.
Iconoclast director Savannah Setten's recent short film, The Melodic Blue, featuring Baby Keem, streamed on Amazon and, here, she talks about some of the triumphs and tribulations of making short films, the work that has inspired her, and why pen and paper is an important tool.
Metro Studio director/cinematographer/table-top master Giovanni Granada lets us into his invention-fuelled mind to sample some of the intriguing gadgets that keep his creativity flowing.
If brands want to engage with a new generation of platform-native consumers then audiences need to be entertained and educated, says Natasha Wellesley, Head of Integrated Production at Ogilvy UK. Telling culturally relevant stories via short-form content might be a big shift for marketers, but it’s an exciting one.
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