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I haven't ever considered my gender to tell you the truth," says Anthea Benton, who directs spots out of bicoastal/international Believe Media. "I just apply myself to every project, and try to...

Sex, drugs … Volvo and Constellation Energy. That about sums up the first few months that the directing duo Big TV!—a.k.a. Andy Delaney and Monty Whitebloom—has spent with Santa Monica-based...

British-born commercial director/DP Ivan Bird has filmmaking in his blood. His maternal grandfather often shot shorts starring Bird's mother and his grandfather's co-workers. "My grandfather was...

I don't see there being a great deal of difference, really," says James Brown, who directs spots in the U.S. via bicoastal Smuggler, and in the U.K. through Stink, London. Brown, perhaps best...

When SHOOT spoke with director Alfonso Cuarón three days after "Fish," a Public Broadcasting System (PBS) spot he directed for Fallon, Minneapolis, won the seventh annual primetime Emmy Award for...

I used to pay to go see the Cannes International Advertising Festival reel every year to watch the best commercials from around the world," relates Tim Godsall, who directs spots stateside via...

Director Daniel Kleinman is living large. Not only did he have an another award-winning year as a director, but Spectre, his London commercial company, recently merged with Stark Films, London, to...

When director Rick LeMoine decided to embark on a solo directing career earlier this year after seven years teamed with Steve Miller—as LeMoine/Miller—one of the winners was their production...

Colorist Richard Pagliaroli has joined the telecine department of Interface Media Group, Washington, D.C.

Pagliaroli comes over from Colorlab, Rockville, Md., where he spent the past two...

In "Roads," a dramatic new spot for the Acura TL via Rubin Postaer and Associates, Santa Monica, a road is magically carved and paved in front of an Acura as it races across a rocky terrain....