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| Eden Diebel |
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In the rich opus of commercials og this British director, we find names of clients such as Smirnoff, Toyota, Discovery Channel, Coca Cola, Mercedes,Volkswagen, Orange, Vodafone etc.
The Campaign Magazine named him one of the World's top 10 directors of commercials. He was awarded with two Gold Lions at Cannes Lions Film Festival.
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| Dragomir Sholev |
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Bulgarian director graduated from the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria. Besides directing commercials, he also directed a couple of short films, amongst them Family (2002), I have something to tell you (2003) and Before life, after death (2005). He was also successful as a director of animation films, such as Natural romance (2000), The Gambler (2001), Badinerie (2003) and Hamlet from Hollywood (2006). He directed many TV ads for clients such as Globul-Cosmote, Bulgaria Vivatel, Office One Super Store and Cinemania-Sofia 2005, to name a few.
Amongst various Film Festivals he participated at all across the world, one finds Cannes 57, Golden Rose (Varna, Bolgarija), Egypt Film Festival (Ismailia, Egipt), Festival on Wheels (Turkey) etc.
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| Matt Ryan |
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Despite not having directed many TV commercials, British director Matt Ryan is no stranger to the advertising world. Before his directing career, he was the Head of Art and occasionaly also the Creative director at Saatchi, London, where he created commercials for clients such as: The National Lottery, Powergen, Castlemaine XXXX and British Airways, to name a few. With Perfo Production House he has already made two TV commercials for T-Mobile Macedonia.
Matt says: »Every brand has a story. Every script should tell a story. My job as a director is to make sure that all disciplines in film-making are harnessed to make sure the audience engages with the story. If you're lucky, very lucky, you get a script with a great story.«
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| Stev Elam |
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American director Stev Elam is a visual/storytelling director whose cinematic style is marked by strong visuals, subtle humor and natural performances.
Whether working with actors with honed skills and talent or real people with unique life experience, under Elam's direction, the performances are always honest, emotional and above all, human. Whether it's a shy little girl with a hole in her heart, or a five-time Emmy nominee, Jill Eikenberry and husband, Michael Tucker, Olympic Gold medalist Tara Lipinski, or Larry King and Vice President Dan Quayle, Elam guides them to the heart of the story.
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| Dirk Verheye |
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At the age of 18, Dirk left home and moved to the big city of Brussels, where he studied at the prestigious film school RITS. After graduating he began his career making documentary films. In 2 years time he directed more than twenty-five documentary movies in length of 40-minutes for National Television. Some of them were nominated at various international film festivals such as dutch Festival of Rotterdam and swiss Locarno Film Festival.
Wishing to discover new worlds he wrote and directed 2 short films Low life and Up, which later led him to direct a fiction series of 12 episodes 16+ for the National Television.
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| Markus Virpio |
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Markus Virpio is a prolific Finnish director with 20 years of directing and filming experience. His work has been awarded many times on national level as well as on the international film festivals and competitions. He also received shortlist nominations in Cannes.
Between 1995 and 1998 he directed under the patronage of Also Starring production, and proceeded to direct as well as partner the production Filmitalli between 1995 and 2003. In 2003 he partnered Also Starring.
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| Alexandru Maftei |
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Alexandru Maftei is a Romanian director and screenwriter as well as an enthusiastic photographer, who graduated from the Bucharest Academy of Film and Theatre. His graduation film Night within a day has travelled many international festivals (Clermond - Ferrand, Montpellier, St. Petersburg, St. Denis, Paris, FIPA Biarritz - FIPA D'Or for best short film, Dakino Bucharest - The Grand prize for best film, etc.) and it was also screened at the Arte TV channel. He made his first feature film Keep your eyes on happiness in 1998, in Romanian-German co-production.
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| Konstantin Charmadov |
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This Russian director's professional path led him through studies of history to the film industry, where he started working in 1990 as assistant director in Gorky film studios. Since 1994 he has been directing TV commercials, creating a rich opus of over 300 commercials for most famous brands and advertising agencies. He also received two nominations for his work at the Cannes festival.
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