Director Andy Hall Joins Not To Scale Roster
May 15, 2024
Online Premiere: Richard Hickey ‘Francis’
Stash is pleased to present the online premiere of Richard Hickey’s “Francis.” A former Superfad director/CD, Hickey (now repped by Not to Scale in the UK and Logan & Sons in the US) worked with EP Kevin Batten to craft the tense and perfectly-paced film from a Dave Eggars short story first heard on a “This American Life” broadcast. [Watch]
Patrick Clair Cracks “True Detective” for HBO
Inspired by the work of photographer Richard Misrach, Elastic director Patrick Clair conjures a world of dark intrigue with this compelling open for HBO’s new “True Detective” series starring and EP’d by Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson which launched Saturday. Design, animation and compositing by [Watch]
Renato Marques: Of Human Rights and AK-47s
Lisbon director/designer Renato Marques illuminates a strong script with austere and striking CG to mark the 66th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Produced thru US prodco Workhouse Creative and backed by music and sound design by Marco Almeida. [Watch]
Buck Pimps Santa’s Ride for Honda
Unlike the Batmobile, a redesign of Santa’s sleigh usually involves mild-mannered and unexceptional tweaks but Buck LA and Santa Monica agency RPA take the assignment to a clever new level in this 2:30 director’s cut underscoring Honda’s “The Power of Dreams” tag. Built on a head-slapping why-didn’t-I-think- [Watch]
Bruner Brings Passion to One Billion Rising
Fueled by the poetry of writer/activist Eve Ensler (The Vagina Monologues), Brooklyn director/animator/illustrator/artist Jordan Bruner teams with the crew at Passion Pictures NY to “inspire personal visions of justice for all victims of gender violence.” Equal parts engagment, emotion and art, the film was produced for the [Watch]
Beautiful Abstraction: Frame Rebrands TV3 Puls
For this series of elegant and playful IDs for Danish lifestyle channel TV3 Puls, Copenhagen motion house Frame say the brief “focused on creating an identity package that reflected the feel of the channel rather than the content of it. They had to be abstract, clearly avoiding literal cliches and had to be all graphic [Watch]
