Famous Music Directors

•Born in 1966, Jonas Akerlund is a Swedish film and music video director.

•He has become a long collaborator of pop singer Madonna having worked on such music videos as "American Life”, “Ray of Light” and "Jump". He also directed her documentary film “I’m going to tell you a secret” and her concert television special “The confessions tour: Live from London.”

•In 2008 he worked on P!nk’s music video for “sober” and in 2009 he worked on Lady Gaga’s video for “Paparazzi” and “Telephone”

Jonas Akerlund

•Born in 1977 Philip Andelman is an American music video director.

•In the summer of 2007, Philip started directing commercials, beginning with a spot for American Express, and last year shot the entire Kohl’s Back To School Campaign. His work as a stills photographer has appeared in Rolling Stone, Nylon, and Black Book. Philip has been nominated for numerous MVPA awards including Director of the Year in 2007.

•He worked on John Mayer’s video for “Waiting on the world to change” in 2006 and on Colbie Caillat’s video for “Realize” in 2007.

•These two videos both use performance shots which are very effective alongside the video. Our video also uses performance shots to support the narrative.

Philip Andelman

•Born in 1957 & 1958, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris are a team of American music video directors and also a married couple, known for their critically acclaimed film directional debut, “Little miss sunshine.”

•They have received international fame for their music videos for bands such as Oasis, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys, and REM (all bands of the indie genre, such as the one we are using for our product). They won six MTV Video Music Awards for the video ”Tonight Tonight” by The Smashing Pumpkins. In 1998 they established a production company, "Bob Industries". Through this company the pair directed commercials for companies such as Volkswagen, Sony, GAP, Target, Ikea, Apple computer and ESPN.

•They worked on the video for “The Zephyr Song” by Red Hot Chili Peppers in 2002 and the video for “Side” by Travis in 2001.

Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris

•Born in 1962, David Fincher is an American filmmaker and music video director.

•He has been nominated for academy awards and is known for the dark and stylish nature of his works.

•Fincher has directed big-budget music videos for artists such as Madonna (including “Express Yourself”, “Vogue” and “Oh Father”.

•He also directed the music video for The Rolling Stones’ “Love is strong” and Michael Jackson’s “Who Is It?”, both very popular artists/bands.

David Fincher

Tony Truand / Tony T. Datis• He is a French director and currently lives in Paris.

• He creates short films which is obvious from the storylines used in the videos he has directed and select music videos in the electronic dance music scene, as well as doing Katy Perry’s ‘Wide Awake’ video.

• Other well known videos he has done are Noisia’s ‘Shellshock’ featuring Foreign Beggars, Skrillex’s ‘First Of The Year (Equinox)’, which was nominated and won various awards and ‘Bangarang’ .