Welcome To The Special Fall 2011 Edition Of SHOOT's Directors SeriesBy Robert Goldrich
October 21, 2011 -- Welcome to SHOOT's fall edition Directors Series featuring helmers who have broken new ground on assorted fronts, a look at promising new directorial talent, and conversations with noteworthy cinematographers about their work spanning short and long-form fare.

Fall 2011 Directors Profile: Joanna BaileyRinging true, striking an emotional chord
By Robert Goldrich
October 21, 2011 -- Though she hasn't helmed a documentary in a number of years, Joanna Bailey of Bare Films, London, still has the observational skills essential to success in that discipline as evidenced by "Couples," her emotionally moving Cancer Research UK spot for AMV BBDO, London.

Fall 2011 Directors Profile: Ringan Ledwidge"After Hours" Reflections
By Robert Goldrich
October 21, 2011 -- Puma's "After Hours Athlete" struck a responsive chord with viewers and the industry at large--evidence of the latter being its earning the Film Craft Grand Prix at this year's Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Director Ringan Ledwidge shares the backstory behind this notable spot out of Droga5, New York.

Fall 2011 Directors Profile: Chris Milk"The next iteration of music videos"
By Robert Goldrich
October 21, 2011 -- For the first time, the AICP Show's annual road tour included an in-depth look at winners of the Next Awards. The Los Angeles tour stop on July 27, for example, featured a session in which three Next judges shared their insights into this year's honored work, including a pair of groundbreaking music videos directed by Chris Milk.

Fall 2011 Directors Profile: Bennett MillerInvesting in Moneyball
By Robert Goldrich
October 21, 2011 -- In some respects, director Bennett Miller's career decisions in terms of projects to pursue parallel the epiphany that Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, played by Brad Pitt, had in the Miller-directed Moneyball.

Fall 2011 Directors Profile: Adrian MoatCrossing a drawbridge to TV drama and four Emmys
By Robert Goldrich
October 21, 2011 -- An accomplished commercialmaker on both sides of the Atlantic via RSA Films, director Adrian Moat had been looking for some time to secure that break to take him into substantive long-form fare. Not only did Moat get that break but he ran with it in breakthrough fashion, landing History channel's Gettysburg, which last month won four primetime Emmy Awards.

Fall 2011 Directors Profile: Phil MorrisonCreating "Mayhem"
By Robert Goldrich
October 21, 2011 -- While he has a penchant for capturing humor and humanity, director Phil Morrison of Epoch Films is also becoming known for getting the most out of actors playing "non-human" characters. An offbeat tongue-firmly-in-cheek specialty to be sure, but one that has proven successful as the Allstate "Mayhem" campaign out of Leo Burnett would attest.

Fall 2011 Directors Profile: The Rauch BrothersGiving voice to animation
By Robert Goldrich
October 21, 2011 -- Animation is clearly embraced as an art form but the art takes a refreshingly different form chronicling real-life stories through the hands, eyes and ears of the Rauch Brothers--Mike and Tim--of Rauch Brothers Animation in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Fall 2011 Directors Profile: Mark RomanekDiversity begets longevity
By Robert Goldrich
October 21, 2011 -- After a feature film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's somber Never Let Me Go, director Mark Romanek went on to take a 180 degree turn to the charmingly absurd with a recent Kia commercial that centered on a video game world of mercenary robots who become fun-loving hoofers once they encounter dancing hamsters.

Up-and-Coming Directors: A Wide-Ranging, Smart Fall CollectionPromising originals are cut from different cloth
By A SHOOT Staff Report
October 21, 2011 -- The mix represented in the fall 2011 installment of SHOOT's ongoing Up-and-Coming Directors Series includes: A director who's signed with a recently launched high-profile company while he's still in film school; a helmer of drama and comedy network TV series who just diversified meaningfully in commercials; a filmmaker whose comedic web series has broken new ground for AMC; a collective that's garnered its first national repesentation; a tabletop director who's making her mark in spots and on series TV; and a pair of brothers who have made the transition from still photography into spots and music videos....