Stimmung Directors

After graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute, Lance began his career assisting the photographer Bruce Weber. Lance quickly became one of the industry’s most sought after cinematographers. Lance’s feature DP credits include Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation (BAFTA nomination for Best Cinematography) and Marie Antoinette, Vincent Gallo’s Buffalo 66, Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich and Where the Wild Things Are, and, most recently, John Slattery’s God’s Pocket. He seamlessly transitioned into directing, working with clients such as Nike, Bank of America, and the NBA. Lance has won Gold Cannes Lions for his work with Nike, Adidas, and VW. He was nominated as Best Commercial Director by the DGA in 2003, 2011 and 2012. His 2011 Super Bowl spot for Volkswagen, “The Force”, became the undisputed highlight of the Super Bowl broadcast and went viral, with over 36 million views on YouTube to date. “The Force” was also named the best ad of 2011 by AdWeek, Creativity, and YouTube, and ranks on multiple lists of the greatest Super Bowl ads of all time. His Nike “Jogger” spot was nominated for a 2013 Emmy for Outstanding Commercial and named the best spot of 2012 by Creativity. Lance’s P&G “Pick Them Back Up”, which aired during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, won a Gold Lion for Direction at the 2014 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and his Apple “Misunderstood” won the 2014 Emmy for Outstanding Commercial. More recently, Lance directed Apple’s follow up holiday spot, “The Song” and GE “The Boy Who Beeps”, which won Bronze for Direction at the 2015 Cannes Lions.

Gerard de Thame began his directorial career in his native England in the early ?80s after graduating from the Chelsea School of Art. His first commercial filmmaking foray was in the music video arena through Helen Langridge and Associates. He won many accolades for his work, including a Gold Lion at Cannes, and a NY Film Festival Silver and Diamond Award for his 1988 clip ?It?s a Wonderful Life? for Black. His 1989 clip ?Cathedral Song? for Tanita Tikaram won two D&AD Awards (Music Video of The Year and Best Direction). The 1989 video ?Twist in the Wind,? for Tanita Tikaram won a Diamond Award for Best Female Video. Gaining more and more recognition for his work, Gerard quickly became a major commercial director in Great Britain and Europe. In 1993 he established his London-based production company - Gerard de Thame Films Ltd. He created a number of memorable campaigns for Barclay?s Bank, British Telecom, and Pirelli Tires, which won the BTAA Best Commercial of the Year, Best European Advertising, Best Post Production, Best Direction Awards and the Cannes Silver Lion. After this Gerard signed with HSI and burst onto the American advertising scene creating internationally recognized campaigns for American Express, Audi, Volvo, VW, Adidas, and many others.

The incredible range of spots has led to Gerard?s reputation as one of the most versatile directors in the industry. He has swept awards for massive effects driven campaigns -such as Lincoln?s ?Surprising Journey?, and is also known for small, ingenious performance driven campaigns - such as Miller?s ?Twist? and ?Weird Guy?, which won Cannes Lions and Clio awards. The Volkswagen ?Synchronicity? spot spawned an unbelievable buzz and swept the AICP Show at MoMA in three categories, as well as having the great distinction of being included in the new work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1999. It also won ?Outstanding Commercial? at the Emmy Awards. The Mercedes campaign demonstrated Gerard?s unique ability as a technical innovator and problem solver. With ?Falling In Love Again? he authentically recreated the aesthetic of many past eras and ?Artists? employed groundbreaking animation techniques to revive historical figures. For recent clients like Range Rover, Nike and Toyota, Gerard continues to generate incredible spots, constantly innovating and taking boards in unexpected directions.

Nicolai Fuglsig, born 1972, started his photographic carrier at the age of 16 at a local Danish newspaper. In 1994 he entered the Danish School of Journalism in Denmark, where he attended the four year education as a photojournalist.
His graduate project , a press book entitled Muslumovo, won widespread international acclaim and was also awarded a prize for the best overseas photojournalistic work by the largest Danish Newspaper, Jyllands Posten.
Subsequently Nicolai Fuglsig received the World Press Photo 1999 1st Prize in the category " Nature and Environment Stories" for the Muslumovo Story and was given the ICP Infinity Award by the International Center of Photography, New York and the Kodak Young Photograher Award. Continuing his development as a photographer and visual story teller Nicolai Fuglsig began experimenting with video and soon came to realize that moving pictures hit a nerve in him.
Fuglsig has succesfully transferred the strong visual style of his still photography into living pictures with commercials and documentaries. Fuglsig is currently devoting himself to the motion picture realm, directing music videos and spots for The Dansih Red Cross and Politiken.

Recognized for his sharp, offbeat comedy and ability to inspire honest performances, Australian Craig Gillespie is a critically acclaimed feature, TV, and commercial director. Walking a tightrope between the comedic and the mundane, Gillespie brings a unique tonality to his projects across all filmed media. Craig’s features have grossed over $205 million at the box office, and have included collaborations with Ryan Gosling, Colin Farrell, Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Jon Hamm, Toni Collette, and Margot Robbie. Gillespie’s most recent feature, I Tonya, chronicles disgraced competitive figure skater Tonya Harding's rise and fall at the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, when she plotted to dash another Olympic hopeful’s dreams. The dark comedy premiered at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival and went on to earn 25 major award nominations, including two Golden Globe nods for Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy, and Best Actress for Margot Robbie’s performance as Tonya Harding, and one Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe win for Allison Janney’s portrayal of Tonya’s mom. In addition to SAG and BAFTA wins for Janney, Critics’ Choice Awards for Robbie and Janney, and other noms, including one from the WGA for Best Original Screenplay, the film heads to the Oscars with three nominations, one for Robbie, another for Janney and a third for Best Editing. In 2016, Gillespie directed “The Finest Hours.” Based on Casey Sherman and Michael J. Tougias’ book detailing a Coast Guard rescue in 1952, the film stars Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Holliday Grainger, John Ortiz, and Eric Bana. In 2014, Gillespie helmed Disney’s “Million Dollar Arm,” which features Jon Hamm as sports agent that recruits talented Indian cricket players to play Major League Ball. In 2011, Craig directed a remake of Fright Night, the 1985 cult comedy-horror classic. WGA Award-winning writer Marti Noxon’s rendition stars Anton Yelchin and Colin Farrell, and earned high praise from discriminating cult followers and critics alike. Craig Gillespie made his foray into feature directing with the critically acclaimed Lars and the Real Girl, starring Oscar-nominee, Ryan Gosling. Hailed by the LA Times as an “implausible feat of sustained imagination,” and the Wall Street Journal as “an almost perfect movie with flawless performances,” Nancy Oliver’s screenplay was nominated for an Oscar, while Gillespie’s film won numerous critics’ awards and festival prizes. Gillespie served as producer and director of the Showtime series, “The United States of Tara,” directing the pilot episode that helped actress Toni Collette earn an Emmy and a Golden Globe. Penned by Oscar-winning Juno scribe, Diablo Cody, the show bears Gillespie’s unmistakable stamp of dancing on the boundary between comedy and drama, while maintaining a clear directorial presence. For his strong and singular body of commercial work, Gillespie has been honored with some of the most prestigious accolades, including many awards from the Clios, LIAA, D&AD, One Shows, Effies, Addys, statues in Cannes, the DGA award, and an Emmy.

Adam was born in Copenhagen in 1978. He started his filmmaking career during high school education by making small films & art projects.

Adams own significant tone of voice as filmmaker put him on the top shelf of directors in Scandinavia in a split second, and within the last year, to the top of the UK and US markets as well. this has lead to several acclaimed collaborations with top agencies, such as Wieden+Kennedy, and has gotten to display his work on big arenas, such as the superbowl.

At the moment, Adam is developing on a feature film in los angeles with screen writer Andrew Kevin Walker (Se7en, Fight Club) through mutual reps, Creative Artists Agency. He continues to direct commercials globally.

Among other awards, Adam won D&AD's Yellow Pencil for best director in 2011. 

Acclaimed features director John Hillcoat 'The Road', 'Lawless’ has thread an on-going interest in the human condition, pairing a painterly eye for shot composition with an intense energy and drive to extract moving character performances.

Although John’s commercials career is still relatively young he has already become one of the most sort after directors – able blend high concept pieces with a strong narrative into something unique and quite special.

As well as his commercials work John has continued to work with his long standing creative partner Nick Cave to create promo’s for Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds and has recently finished films for Johnny Cash, The Rolling Stones and Coca Cola’s Superbowl film ‘America 

Jim Jenkins has a reputation for being one of the industry’s premier comedy directors, as well as one of its best visual storytellers. He has a particular knack for creating work that gets remembered. When Jim shot Martin Scorsese for the second time (in what turned out to be a Cannes Gold Lion-winning commercial for BBDO and AT&T), Scorsese told him that more people repeat lines to him from their first collaboration for American Express than they do from Scorsese’s own movies. Jim found this to be profoundly sad, believing that Goodfellas should probably have more cultural impact than a 30-second commercial. And more recently, Jim’s “Week of Greatness-All is Right” commercial for Foot Locker went viral for its hilarious take on all being made right (at least for one week) in the world of sports—for instance, Mike Tyson humbly returns Evander Holyfield’s ear, and Dennis Rodman buys a one-way ticket to North Korea, never to return. In addition to AmEx, AT&T and Foot Locker, Jim has filmed for such clients as Snickers with three popular back-to-back Super Bowl spots: “Brady Bunch” (2015), “Marilyn” (2016) and the brand’s first live Super Bowl commercial in 2017 featuring Adam Driver. Jim directed Wieden + Kennedy New York’s “Famous Among Friends” campaign for Bud Light. The comedic campaign kicked off with “Between Friends” and includes “The Hero’s Return,” “Vendor,” “Banquet,” “Ye Olde Pep Talk” and others. The spots introduced the now trending “Dilly Dilly” toast into the conversation – Bud Light says there are 100,000 Google searches and 45,000 YouTube searches a week on the phrase. Other clients include Bud Light, Coke, BMW, FedEx, Virgin Atlantic, Land Rover, NFL, American Airlines, Sony and dozens more. Jim has been a Director’s Guild (DGA) nominee for Outstanding Commercial Director, and his work has won multiple D&AD awards, CLIOS and One Show Pencils, as well as AICP honors and Cannes Lions. Both Campaign and Creativity have named him one of the industry’s top directors.

Jonze began his career as a teenager photographing BMX riders and skateboarders for Freestylin' Magazine and Transworld Skateboarding. Moving into filmmaking, he began shooting street skateboarding films, including the influential Video Days (1991). Jonze co-founded the skateboard company Girl Skateboards in 1993 with riders Rick Howard and Mike Carroll. Jonze's filmmaking style made him an in-demand director of music videos for much of the 1990s, resulting in collaborations with Sonic Youth, Beastie Boys, Fatboy Slim, Daft Punk, Weezer, Björk, and Kanye West. Jonze began his feature film directing career with Being John Malkovich (1999) and Adaptation (2002), both written by Charlie Kaufman; the former earned Jonze an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. He was a co-creator and executive producer of MTV's Jackass reality franchise.[2] Jonze later began directing films based on his own screenplays, including Where the Wild Things Are (2009) and Her (2013); for the latter film, he won the Academy Award, Golden Globe, and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay, while receiving Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Song ("The Moon Song"). Jonze co-founded Directors Label, with filmmakers Chris Cunningham and Michel Gondry, and the Palm Pictures company.[3] He is currently the creative director of Vice Media, Inc. (source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Jonze)

Daniel “Danny” Kleinman is recognised as one of advertising’s most established directors. He has won the top awards for his advertising work at Cannes, D&AD, the New York One Show, British Arrows, Clio, Creative Circle, Midsummer Awards and many others. The Gunn Report acknowledged him as the Most Awarded Director in the world and he has received the President’s Award from Creative Circle and the Chairman’s Award at the British Arrows. He’s also topped the Campaign, Shots and Televisual’s lists of hottest directors and in Ad week, was voted US Commercial Director of the decade. After Hornsey Art School, Daniel went on to work as an illustrator, also collaborating on storyboards with directors working in the emerging music video industry leading to his first music video in 1983. Daniel pioneered the use of special effects in post-production over the course of directing more than 100 videos in the 80s winning numerous awards for work with artists such as ZZ Top, Fleetwood Mac, Prince, and Madonna. From the 90s Daniel has concentrated on advertising. He has not only created ads needing complex special effects for clients such as Guinness, X-Box, Chrysler, Johnnie Walker, Sony and Audi but his ability to also direct comedy and dialogue has led to work for Boddingtons, John Smiths, Super Noodles, Durex and John West. His recent work includes Audi, Lexus, Snickers, Crunchy Nut, Galaxy, Coors Light and Budweiser. Daniel has also directed TV drama and comedies notably Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse’s “Smashie & Nicey - The End Of An Era”, which was BAFTA nominated and won the rose at Montreux. He has also taken over the mantle of James Bond titles designer from Maurice Binder, creating iconic title sequences for 7 of the last 8 films. In 2006 Daniel and fellow director Ringan Ledwidge founded Rattling Stick. In 2012, the company was awarded UK’s No1 Production Company at the British Arrows for the fourth time in five years, in 2013 Rattling Stick was named Best Production Company of the Year in Campaign magazine for the third time and by the end of 2015 ranked 1st in the Televisual Peer poll for the 5th year in a row.

Robert is an amazing visual storyteller, whether a lush cinematic odyssey or a subtle yet hilarious comedy; he is a master of his craft. Highly memorable commercials and campaigns fill his reel for clients such as Volkswagen, Fiat, Lexus, Michelob, Tommy Hilfiger, Ford, HSBC, Visa, Chrysler, Verizon, Jackson Triggs, Land Rover, Southwest Airlines and Toyota. 

Christian Loubek has helmed global campaigns for Diet Coke, Citibank, Cisco, Volvo, OnStar, Becks, Hyundai, VW, Audi, UPA, Motoral, Fiat and Microsoft to name a few. He has worked for the best agencies worldwide including Wieden+Kennedy, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, Arnold, Hal Riney, Droga5, Crispin Porter Bogusky, The Martin Agency, Venables Bell & Partners, Mccann/Erickson, Ogilvy (London+LA), Wongdoody, Publicis (NYC+Paris), and Lowe Worldwirde.

Christian’s unpadded enthusiasm for projects belies his experience. His career began in 1999 with an interactive CD-ROM for Eddie Bauer that won gold in the Communication Arts Annual. The piece which he wrote, shot, and directed, was a first of its kind, weaving together three story lines, each of which showcased the brand’s outdoor apparel in innovative ways. Other notable early work includes a biopic piece on graffiti artist Kinsey for the Truth Campaign, a pointed parody of foreign film for the Vancouver Film Festival, a goofy riff on parental pride for discover card, and the classic title sequence to HBO’s Six Feet Under.

Starting with his first spots, which led the uber-hip ironic commercial attitude of the late ’90s, Christian has always stayed a step ahead of the cultural moment. His more recent Citibank campaign has the same sophistication, but is markedly more empathetic and emotionally connected to the viewer. Whether it’s a late night cinematic journey for Fiat, or a quirky unveiling of an office girl’s wilder side for Carnival, Christian adeptly uses sly humour, subtle motivations and dramatic tension to tell stories that bring a pop culture relevance to national brands. 

Mike began his career at Kirshenbaum & Bond in NYC, where he simultaneously tried this hand in both the advertising and entertainment industries, writing taglines for several feature films including Boogie Nights, Happiness and The Avengers.

This 3-year period culminated just before leaving K&B when he (along with former creative partner Tom Kuntz) were featured in VARIETY Magazine's "Gotham 50" of 1998, which recognized the top fifty New Yorkers to watch in the entertainment industry in the coming year.

From there, Maguire went on to MTV to become writer/director where he produced hundreds of commercials for shows - most notably, the MTV Video Awards featuring Ben Stiller, The Wu-Tang Clan, Madonna, Marilyn Manson & Dave Grohl of The Foo Fighters, as well as the MTV Movie Awards featuring Samuel Jackson - which gained considerable national and international attention.

Based on the success of his work at MTV, Maguire decided to pursue directing full-time, joining Propaganda Films in 1999 and MJZ in 2001. To date, he has directed a number of well-known commercials for brands such as BUDWEISER, FOX SPORTS, NIKE and VOLKSWAGON, to name just a few.

He has also worked on music video projects, in particular; the acclaimed "Frontier Psychiatrist" video for The Avalanches, which was one of 3 finalists for BEST VIDEO OF THE YEAR at the CAD's (the U.K.'s premier video award show) and "DANGER! HIGH VOLTAGE!" video for Detroit's Electric Six, which features vocals from Jack White of the White Stripes. The song entered the UK charts at #2 and Tom Jones has been quoted as saying that it is his favorite video.

Maguire has received numerous awards for his work, including One Show, Cannes and British D&AD. He has also been featured in Archive Magazine, RES Magazine and Rolling Stone.

Brian Mah has helmed a variety of projects across multiple platforms and media. His work is characterized by striking live action cinematography, combined with sophisticated design, effects and animation. Over the years, he has collaborated with a host of top brands and networks including Google, PepsiCo, Sony, Coca-Cola, Time Warner and Spike TV. He is a founding partner in ALMA MATER, a Los Angeles-based visual studio. 

A native of Perth, Australia, the largest most remote city on earth, Simon studied graphic design at University, graduating to ply his trade as an art director for agencies across Australia. In 1995, Simon was enticed across the Pacific by Clarity Coverdale Fury in Minneapolis. Specifically, in January 1995. Unimpressed by the weather, Simon moved on to Hill Holliday in Boston before ultimately landing at TBWA\Chiat\Day NY as Group Creative Director. In 2003 Simon transitioned to directing and has since worked with clients as varied as Volkswagen, HBO, Xbox, Audi, Intel, HP, Holiday Inn Express and Mercedes... among others. His films for Xbox/Halo 3, HBO and PlayStation have collectively won him a Grand Clio, a D&AD Yellow Pencil, a GRANDY Award, One Show Gold Pencils, Cannes Gold Lions, the 2012 AICP honor for Best Direction and the Film Grand Prix at Cannes, none of which he has displayed anywhere. Simon recently wrapped his short film The Stone Forest and continues to divide his time between Perth and the US, chasing the ever-elusive Perth shoot.

Rocky Morton was the co-creator/director of Max Headroom, a TV series and 60min. TV film. Morton went on to co-direct two feature films – DOA, the critically acclaimed film noir murder mystery starring Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid and the live action fantasy, SUPER MARIO BROTHERS starring Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, and Dennis Hopper. In the early nineties, Morton created a new production company, MJZ, with partners Annabel Jankel and David Zander. Morton has received numerous awards for his work in advertising commercials and music videos including British D&AD Awards, Cannes Lions, Clios, the One Show award, and an Emmy. Also, twice nominated as best director by the Director’s Guild of America (DGA). Morton’s work can be found today in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City and at the Victoria & Albert (V&A) museum in London. Morton’s short film “The M Word” written by Alan Ball was a Sundance selection in 2004.

Noam Murro is a multi-award winning commercials director. He has been nominated for DGA Director of the Year five times, winning the honor in 2005. His unique style was established in 1994 with a memorable campaign that captured elderly customers in Katz's famous deli on New York City's Lower East Side. This led to documentary-style exposes of tobacco monsters for the California Department of Health as well as lighter work for Fox Sports. The poignant Flatline spot for Toshiba, in which a dying man's life flashes before him, was singled out and applauded by the New York Times.
In 2002, he directed Saturn's Sheet Metal, a conceptually driven spot that was highly critically acclaimed. In 2003, Adcritic.com labeled his Got Milk? commercial as the best spot of the year. It went on to become the winner of a Gold Lion at the 2003 Cannes Lions awards. Murro's campaign for Olympus garnered him a second Gold Lion at the 2005 awards along with a number of Silver and Bronze statues for other commercials. Recently, Creativity Magazine named him as one of the industry's 50 most influential people in the last 20 years. He was also recently named the UK's #1 director by Campaign magazine.
As well as directing, he is also the founder of Biscuit Filmworks. Smart People is his first feature film. 

Isaiah is a Kabul-born filmmaker who got his start as an assistant director on feature films made by Tibetan monks. His father, a collector of South Asian textiles and antiquities, and mother, a trained Jungian psychologist, raised Isaiah and his two younger brothers in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he spent his summers selling dismantled Indian palaces to tourists.
Bringing his colorful background to his directing work, Isaiah’s ambition was defined through his spectacular take on the music video—often elevating his genre-specific videos to transcendent levels. In his short career, his works have been featured on MTV, VH1 and in The New York Times, and have screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival, the Yerba Buena Museum, The Hammer Museum and Art Basel Miami. Isaiah was awarded the 2012 MVPA Award for Best Direction of a New Artist for his Cults “Go Outside” video and the 2012 Best Narrative Video Award at the LAMVF for his Raphael Saadiq “Good Man” video. Most recently, his video for MGMT “Cool Song No. 2” earned him a spot as finalist for Best Music Video at the Ciclope Festival. In addition to such honors, Isaiah has been nominated for a number of other awards, including the UK Music Video Award, British Arrow, MVPA’s and the Vimeo Award.
More recently, Isaiah has been transitioning into the world of commercials, where he’s worked on campaigns for such high-profile clients as Adidas (for the 2012 Olympics), Adobe, Jack Daniels (for the launch of their Tennessee Honey Whiskey), Microsoft (to introduce Windows Phone 8) and Bacardi’s re-launch campaign for Dewar’s Scotch. 

2007:
When searching for their dream job, people can spend years dabbling in completely unrelated fields before career epiphany strikes. Director Geordie Stephens' circuitous route to job nirvana began with an earnest stint in film school but the lure of Olympic gold proved too strong. A former division one gymnast, the Marin County, California native's five-hour-a-day training regime didn't bode well when it came to focusing on film theory at night. He eventually quit both, choosing instead to study sculpture and installation art. After realizing that a good living is hard to come by for a struggling artist, Stephens completed his Masters in graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design, which ushered his transition into advertising. Working as an art director at Miami's Crispin, Porter & Bogusky for three years, he was fascinated with the art of storytelling, which led to instances of backseat directing. He finally took the plunge into the director's chair when Tool of North America co-founder Erich Joiner gave him the opportunity to sign with the company last year. The transition was made easier by Tool's reputation for building ex-creatives, such as Harry Cocciolo and Sean Ehringer, into strong directors, says Stephens, who is also repped by Imported Artists for Canada. His work finds tinges of humor in unexpected situations, such as the environmentally-conscious hitman who ensures that his parcels go to the right places - a dead body into the river and an empty water bottle into recycling - in Keep California Beautiful's "Mobsters." But the mark of Stephens' dedication to his aesthetic is his ability to get the laugh, regardless of whether the spot is a big-budget affair with grand sets and lavish visual aids, such as Sprint's Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous-esque "Billionaire", or a tightly-shot, lo-fi spot like the gory, urban legend buster "Kidney Thief" for Comcast Ziddio. "There's a lot of broad comedy in American ads, but it's so exciting to do sophisticated humor," he says. "You have to engage in the commercial in order to truly understand its humor, and to look for the nuances as opposed to being hit over the head with the joke."
2009:
Geordie Stephens? non-traditional approach to advertising started in 1994 after he completed a BA and MFA in sculpture, installation art and graphic design. During his 12-year tenure in the advertising world he worked as a graphic designer, art director and creative director, namely at Crispin Porter + Bogusky where he spent three years working on virtually every account. Geordie?s fresh and often unorthodox work for such clients as Burger King, Virgin Atlantic Airlines, Mini Cooper, IKEA, Budweiser, ?Truth,? Sprite and VW has been frequently praised by both the press and a variety of international award shows. His public service-esque approach on Maxim?s ?Endangered Man? was hailed as one of 2005?s most unique campaigns and his interactive work on VW was awarded the Interactive Grand Clio in 2006. Geordie joined Tool in 2006 with the hope of bringing his non-traditional creative philosophy to commercial directing.

An acclaimed photographer, director of TV commercials and feature films. Malcolm Venville is known for continuously pushing the creative envelope.

He has shot several legendary spots with Nike, including “Rooney” and “Ribery”, a pair of spots exploring the intensity and dedication required to reach the top of your game and of course the World Cup spot “Almost” with Robinho.

Malcolm has published two books of photography. Layers (2003) is a collection of Venville’s advertising, celebrity, fashion, and personal photography and Lucha Loco (2006) is a collection of over a hundred portraits of lucha libre wrestlers taken on a 2005 trip to Mexico (Wayne Rooney has one).

Venville’s feature film debut was 44 Inch Chest (2009), a gangster film starring Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Tom Wilkinson and Ian McShane. He also directed Henry’s Crime (2010), a romantic comedy starring Keanu Reeves, James Caan, and Vera Farmiga.

Malcolm has recently shot a stills campaign for Zacapa Rum with Adam And Eve DDB, as well as a BBC film for Radio 5 Live. 

Born in Germany, Stacy Wall grew up and watched a lot of television in North Carolina. The perfect grounding to a career in advertising – he spent nine years at Wieden+Kennedy as a copywriter and Creative Director on Nike and ESPN.

Stacy transitioned to directing commercials in 2001. He has since imposed his artful directorial style on countless ads in both the US and UK.

In 2009, Stacy launched Imperial Woodpecker in the US, a company dedicated to making Sno-Balls, sponsoring the Japan Men’s National Cricket Team and producing the last TV commercial ever made. But after receiving the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in TV Commercials, it appears there’s still a lot more work to be done….

We’re glad Stacy is a Rogue… And not just because he’s got a Vox Continental organ either… Although it is a splendid organ.