Production company Eleanor has added director Chris Chuky to its U.K. roster. Winner of the BMW Filmmaking Challenge, in partnership with the BFI and mentored by Michaela Coel, Chuky’s subversive two-minute short film, “Blades,” challenges audiences’ preconceptions with a remarkable twist. While much of Chuky’s portfolio explores theatrical, emotional narratives, the director’s gift for satire shines in “Yodel Rap,” a U.K. Channel 4 X Domino’s mockumentary following the rise of The Yodel Boiz, a fictional drill music group influenced by yodeling. Most recently, Chuky worked with Jack Daniel’s and polymath musical artist Wesley Joseph for a campaign developed by creative agency Iris. The first of two :30 films for the global whiskey brand went live earlier this week and explores Wesley’s perspective as a musician and what it means to “make it count” in the music industry....

Fresh from his triumph at the British Arrows for his Formula E film, which featured the sensational stunt of launching a car out of a plane at 21,000 feet, director Sam Walker has landed on the Creators Inc. talent roster for representation in the U.K., EMEA and Asia. Walker’s latest attention-grabbing film for Avios saw him team up with Bond stunt coordinator Boris Martinez and effortlessly depicts a nation gliding on e-foils towards its dream holiday destination. Walker brings an extensive creative and collaborative pedigree to his fimmaking, having served as the award-winning ECD at Uncommon--and previously at such agencies as Mother, Fallon and Karmarama....