Martin de Thurah
This year’s field of nominees for the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award recognizing Outstanding Directorial Achievement for Commercials consists of four past winners of the honor and a helmer garnering his first career nomination.
The latter is Seb Edwards of Park Pictures.
As...
Bicoastal U.S. commercial production company Epoch Films has expanded to the U.K. Alongside company founder Mindy Goldberg, and partners Melissa Culligan and Martin de Thurah, Epoch’s London office will be helmed by former SMUGGLER director of talent Megan Campbell and former Tony Kaye Films,...
MJZ leads the way with three of its directors--Steve Ayson, Fredrik Bond and Spike Jonze--scoring nominations for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials for 2018. This marks Bond’s eighth career DGA nomination, Jonze’s third and Ayson’s second.
Jonze’s three...
Director Elena Petitti di Roreto has signed with bicoastal Epoch Films for commercials, marking her first career representation in the U.S. In November, she is slated to direct her first job through Epoch Films--a project for Hennessy through Droga5. The shoot is set on location in France. ...
SHOOT will publish a Special Directors>e.dition on Monday, March 26, that will contain the entire Directors Series section from SHOOT’s March/April print issue (including extended versions of some stories).
The mix of profiles includes two directors who were squarely...
At an early age Martin de Thurah studied acting and painting as he tried to find his way in the arts. He wound up on a path which led to National Film School in his native Denmark, eventually finding his calling as a director.
In 2005, de Thurah made his first directorial splash in music...
The Directors Guild of America added significant awards season weight to Gravity, bestowing upon Alfonso Cuarón the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film. This bodes well for the pull of Gravity at the Academy Awards...
The Directors Guild of America (DGA) has named its nominees for Best Commercial Director of 2013: Fredrik Bond of MJZ/Sonny, John X. Carey who’s now with Tool but was nominated on the strength of work he done while at Paranoid US, Noam Murro of Biscuit Filmworks,...