Live Action Commercials, Music Videos, Animation – Director Alon Isocianu Does It All.

Filmmaker Alon Isocianu and I discuss his many tools as a filmmaker, the importance of pre-viz and possibitly of soon sharing his treatments, among other topics. Alon’s work is highly imaginative, visceral & visually poetic. I’m a sucker for how Alon blends together elements of live-action, motion design, 3D animation and VFX.  He is also the co-founder and […]

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Creative Director Jaime Cabrera Asks What’s The Big Idea?

Jaime Cabrera is an award-winning Creative Director at Innocean. He’s got a wondeful book I devoured called “What’s The Big Idea? An Idispensable Guide To Becoming A Kick-Ass Creative Director.” Somehow Jaime finds time between steady gigs to host the popular podcast “Confessions of a Creatvie Director” – everywhere you pod. Check out Jaime’s site by clicking his name

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Director Steve Fuller Masterfully Fuses Design and Live Action.

Steve Fuller is an Emmy award-winning Director, whose work showcases his expertise in integration of design and live-action to the production process, coupled with an ability to lead projects from conception to completion. Comfortable in a variety of mediums and genres, Steve’s creative through-line is visual storytelling. His commercial directing credits including major campaigns for McDonalds and

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Commercial Editor Erwin Fraterman Has His Little Farm.

Little Farm is Erwin Fraterman‘s editorial boutique in Los Angeles, where he and his team can do everything under one barn roof. He and I, along with Thom Reimerink, just did a successful mad dash for RAM Trucks and Razorfish Pubicis to deliver a fully cut, mixed and colored film, with VFX no less, in a mere

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Cinematographer Darrell Wonge’s Journey From The Basketball Court To Behind The Camera.

Cinematographer Darrell Wonge tells his story from player professional basketbaall around the globe to getting hurt and watching YouTube to learn a new craft. And he’s mastering it fast. Darrell’s quickly gained extensive experience in fashion, beauty, alcohol and sports. Competent in capturing high quality images while displaying confidence and professionalism. Being a former professional athlete

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Filmmaker Digby Masters The Experiential Activation Promo.

Filmmaker Digby started out as a New York PA and put in his time rising through the ranks on crew, long before DEI was a thing. Now he and his partner Ramon “Ra” Nunez run Baby Lion, A Black and Latino-owned creative production company, bringing authentic, cultural insights to every project. We dissect Digby’s Resident Evil promo, shot live

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Sweetwood Creative CCO and Creativity In Captivity Podcast Host Pat Hazell.

Showtime declared Pat Hazell one of the five funniest people in America. His 25 years of experience as a writer, producer and director have made him a go-to guy for new American theater. Pat is one of the original writers for NBC’s Seinfeld, a Tonight Show veteran, a critically acclaimed playwright and a contributing commentator to National Public

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Pesky Spec Spot Q&A With Myself and SpecBank’s Dan Sorgen.

Filmmakers that have taken any of my courses, either online or attended our senssational Commercial Directing Bootcamp or Filmmaker Retreat in Joshua Tree, are welcome to a free zoom Q&A about those spec spots. Dan Sorgen, Copywriter/CD, will join me. Many filmmakers have used his SpecBank.com to find scripts written by agency creatives to shoot.

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Lesbian & Queer Women Films Have A New Home At DIVAboxoffice.tv. Thanks To Producer/Director Christin Baker.

Producer/Director/Writer Christin Baker had directed five feature films and co-launched seminal lesbian steamer Tello Films before becoming CEO of DIVAboxoffice.tv, a new streaming platform serving up premium lesbian and queer women’s content. Given her experience making movies and distributing them, Divaboxoffice.tv is sure to be a hit with it’s LGBTQ+ women’s audience. Christin and I chat about her

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Filmmaker Daniel Cardenas Talks Commercials, Documentaries and Being A Gun For Hire.

My friend Daniel Cardenas is a talented director and producer, cranking out commercials and videos through his own Bakerbuilt Works. He’s mastered brand stories, product videos and testimonials, but you can tell documentaries scratch Daniel’s itch. We chat imposter syndrome, low budget filmmaking and his award-winning docu “Hopped Up” and a new project as well.  Stream “Hopped Up” on Amazon, check

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