Director Profiles
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Friday, Oct. 20, 2006
Directors Series: Paul Hunter
Burger King's "Stuff of Legends" is a standout comedy spot on a couple of levels. For one, the tongue-in-cheek premise from Crispin Porter +Bogusky, Miami, is deftly realized, showing us the evolution of NASCAR driver pit-stop snacks leading to today's perfect racing solution, BK's chicken fries...
Friday, Oct. 20, 2006
Directors Series: Steve Ayson
Ah, the power of cyberspace. Based on his tongue-in-cheek viral ad "Happy Mornings" for Procter & Gamble's Folgers out of Saatchi & Saatchi in New York, director Steve Ayson got a call from a 20th Century Fox executive who loved the work and expressed an interest in perhaps getting together...
Friday, Oct. 20, 2006
Directors Series: Dayton and Faris
Patience has proved to be a virtue in the careers of the husband-and-wife directing team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris of Bob Industries, Santa Monica. They never wavered in their efforts to bring their first feature film, Little Miss Sunshine, to the big screen this July despite an arduous...
Friday, Oct. 20, 2006
Directors Series: Jesse Dylan
In reference to Snicker's five-Webisode Instant Def series, Jimmy Smith, executive creative director at BBDO New York, relates, "We're talking music, superheroes, comic book graphics...everything that's pop [culture] wrapped up in an instant." But the show itself was hardly an instant concoction...
Friday, Oct. 20, 2006
Directors Series: Nicolai Fuglsig
"I was flattered that you should call me for an interview because I feel I've had the worst year of my career this year," says director Nicolai Fuglsig when told he has been chosen for profile in the SHOOT 2006 Fall Directors Issue. This coming from a man who spent a good part of '06 picking up the...
Friday, Oct. 20, 2006
Directors Series: The Glue Society
Ask agency creatives and producers who they're dying to work with these days, and you'll hear The Glue Society over and over. Atop the "it" list, The Glue Society is a unique entity. Formed in Sydney by Gary Freedman and Jonathan Kneebone, who met while they were both creatives at Young &...
Friday, Oct. 20, 2006
Directors Series: David Harner
A leap of faith catapulted a directorial career much further than the aspiring helmer himself could have envisioned. The steadfast belief was in a concept for a Hallmark Cards spot that had taken a backseat to another commercial but David Harner, then a creative at Leo Burnett USA, Chicago, felt...
Friday, Oct. 20, 2006
Directors Series: Albert Kodagolian
Director/DP Albert Kodagolian looks back and recalls that he has been a "perpetual foreigner." Born to Armenian parents, the helmer spent his early childhood in the southern regions of the Caspian Sea near the Armenian and Iranian border. At age 12, he was sent to a boarding school in Cyprus...
Friday, Oct. 20, 2006
Directors Series: Phil Morrison
The good-natured absurdity of the Jimmy Dean "Happy Breakfast" commercials and the jarringly relevant Volkswagen Jetta "Safe Happens" campaign are seemingly worlds apart creatively. Add into the mix the Apple Mac vs. PC series of spots that have quickly become part of buzz-generating pop culture...
Friday, Oct. 6, 2006
Creative Voice
As executive creative director at McKinney in Raleigh, N.C., David Baldwin has had a hand in assorted notable projects, including endeavors that have broken new media ground, a high-profile example being last year's "The Heist" for Audi, an all-encompassing experiential ad vehicle event that...