Director Erica Dunton has joined Great Guns USA.

A prolific talent, Dunton has already directed five independent features--four of which she also wrote and produced. Her films have won numerous awards on the festival circuit, including at Sundance, Milan, Barcelona, and Ojai, and have competed at Tribeca, Slamdance, Stockholm, Moscow, Munich and Madrid. Writer-director Dunton’s feature to.get.her won the Best of Next Audience Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.

Dunton has also shot 23 episodes of television. These include multiple installments for HBO Max’s Julia, Amazon’s The Summer I Turned Pretty, and Apple’s Bad Monkey. She also returned for a block of Ted Lasso after earning a DGA Award nomination in 2022 for her episode “Rainbow,” and will be launching two new episodes in May.

Dunton’s early influences include her father, BAFTA-winning cinematographer and camera technician Joe Dunton, BSC MBE who invented the video assist, made Stanley Kubrick’s lenses, and was instrumental in the development of anamorphic lenses and other seminal camera technologies. 

Erica Dunton said, “Great Guns USA understands that the ultimate goal of any piece of visual media is to make an audience feel something. It also knows that style alone cannot do this, and must work hand in hand with clear storytelling and compelling characters. I’m looking forward to working across a spectrum of genres--especially in comedy--with collaborators who have always looked ahead, blazing the trail before them. I’m hoping to bring the breadth of my storytelling experience to the table and create a space at all stages of the journey to ensure ideas are elevated and team spirit flourishes.”

Oliver Fuselier, managing director and executive producer at Great Guns USA, added, “I first met Erica while searching for a director that had comedy, celebrity, action, and spots with great storytelling on their reel for a client--her name was immediately put on the top of the list. I knew her ability to tell stories and make viewers feel emotion would translate to the TV commercial world.”