The Fines–the husband-and-wife directing team consisting of Sean and Andrea Fine–wrapped this spot for the Smithsonian which in part promotes its new African-American History Museum in Washington, D.C. The piece is driven by the concept of new doors opening up to reveal new worlds and insights.
The Fines–who are with production house Superprime–are Oscar and Emmy winners. They directed Inocente which won the Best Short Subject Documentary Oscar in 2013, and Life According to Sam which earned a 2014 Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. The Fines landed their first Oscar nomination in 2008 for the feature documentary War Dance.