What music video ,which made the director a two-time Grammy Award winner, amassed over 740 million views on YouTube?
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Melina Matsoukas Melina Matsoukas (born January 14, 1981) is an American director of music videos, television shows and commercials. She is a two-time Grammy Award winner for her "We Found Love" and "Formation" music videos.
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We Found Love (music video) The music video for Barbadian singer Rihanna's 2011 single "We Found Love" was directed by Melina Matsoukas. It was filmed on September 26–28, 2011, in the New Lodge area of Belfast and Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. People driving around the location of the set informed BBC that traffic in the area was congested as drivers wanted to see the singer. The video premiered on October 19, 2011, and was made available to download digitally three days later on October 22. As of September 2017, the video has amassed over 740 million views on YouTube.
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Micah Meisner Micah Meisner is a former music video director who has won two Juno Awards on four nominations for his video work.
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Ryan Pallotta Ryan Adam Pallotta (born March 17, 1985) is a Canadian music video director.
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Ed Steinberg Ed Steinberg is a New York City-based music video producer/director. Steinberg also founded the RockAmerica video distribution network. Steinberg has a colorful reputation. He is perhaps best known for making Madonna's first ever music video in 1982 for the song "Everybody", but has produced and directed more than 90 music videos for other artists such as Gipsy Kings, Cheap Trick, U2 and Yello. Long-form television programs he has produced include music specials for MTV, "Alive From Off Center" for PBS, and "The Palladium, Where Mambo was King" for Bravo. His videos are in collections in the Whitney Museum, The Museum of Modern Art and The Guggenheim. He has served as the musical director for the Havana Film Festival since 2000.
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Dawn Shadforth Dawn Shadforth is a British music video and documentary director, as well as an editor and artist. Shadforth has directed and edited promotional music videos for artists such as Björk, Primal Scream, Goldfrapp, Tinie Tempah, Charli XCX, Metronomy, The Streets, All Seeing I, Peaches, Hurts, Florence and the Machine, Selena Gomez and Kylie Minogue. She has received numerous awards for her work in music video including; Best New Director at The 1998 CAD Awards, Best Director at the 2001 CAD Awards, Visionary Video at the VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards for Garbage’s "Special", and the Icon Award at the 2010 UK Music Video Awards. Her work is well known for its humor, sexuality and tightly choreographed performances and for liberating the movement of dancers rather than containing it.
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Roger Ross Williams Roger Ross Williams (born September 16, 1973) is an American television news, documentary and entertainment director, producer and writer. He directed most notably "Music by Prudence" that won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject), about a 21-year-old Zimbabwean singer-songwriter Prudence Mabhena, who was born severely disabled and has struggled to overcome poverty and discrimination. All other seven members of Prudence's band "Liyana" are also disabled. Williams's film "God Loves Uganda", which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival to enormous critical acclaim. It was shortlisted for a 2014 Academy Award, has won over a dozen awards and screened at over 60 film festivals worldwide. His latest film "Life, Animated" was nominated for the 2017 Academy Award.
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MaryAnn Tanedo MaryAnn Tanedo is a Grammy award-winning American film and music video producer, who began her career in the early 1990s. Over the span of her career, Tanedo has produced music videos for a wide range of chart-topping artists including Rihanna, Calvin Harris, Kelly Clarkson, Britney Spears, Juanes, Gwen Stefani, Moby, Enrique Iglesias, Faith Hill, Dre, Katy Perry, M.I.A., Lady Gaga, Kylie Minogue, Ricky Martin, Maroon 5, Joss Stone, Pussycat Dolls, Eminem, Selena Gomez, and various others. Among the directors she has produced for are Joseph Kahn, Emil Nava, Marcos Siega, Darren Grant, Paul Hunter, the Hughes Brothers and Angela Alvarado.
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Gaga: Five Foot Two Gaga: Five Foot Two is a 2017 documentary film about American singer-songwriter Lady Gaga. The film documents the events around the production and release of her fifth studio album, "Joanne", and her halftime performance at Super Bowl LI. The film, directed by visual artist and documentarian Chris Moukarbel, made its debut at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival before having a worldwide streaming release on Netflix on September 22, 2017.
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Tim Wilson (filmmaker) Black Magic Tim (born Timothy Malcom Wilson) is an American filmmaker working mostly with music videos, EPK's, commercials and independent feature films. He has directed, filmed and edited productions for clients such as Blackground Records, Tommy Boy Entertainment and TVT Records. As well as, EPK's for national artists and book authors like " Naughty by Nature "," Tank (American singer) ", "Kimberly Scott (singer)" and Motivational Speaker "Valorie Burton". He has received several awards and film festival nominations for his work on the short Sci-Fi film "Apple Crumb Panic".
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F. Gary Gray Felix Gary Gray (born July 17, 1969), known professionally as F. Gary Gray, is an American film director, film producer, music video director and actor. Gray directed "Friday", "Set It Off", "The Negotiator", "The Italian Job" and "Straight Outta Compton". He also directed the eighth installment of the "Fast and the Furious" franchise, "The Fate of the Furious", which had the highest-grossing worldwide opening ever and is the 11th highest-grossing film of all-time. He also directed some critically acclaimed hip-hop music videos like "It Was a Good Day" by Ice Cube, "Natural Born Killaz" by Dr. Dre and Ice Cube, "Keep Their Heads Ringin'" by Dr. Dre, "Waterfalls" by TLC and "Ms. Jackson" by OutKast.
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Alexandra Dreyfus Alexandra "Ra" or "Lexie" Dreyfus (born April 7, 1986) is an American director, photographer, writer, actress, artists. She is best known for her work directing music videos and commercials, photographing celebrities, portraying Sarah Genatiempo in the Internet series "lonelygirl15" and its spinoff "".
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2013 MTV Video Music Awards The 2013 MTV Video Music Awards were held on August 25, 2013 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Marking the 30th installment of the award show, they were the first to be held in New York City not to use a venue within the borough of Manhattan. Nominations were announced on July 17, 2013. Leading the nominees were Justin Timberlake and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with six, followed by Bruno Mars, Miley Cyrus, and Robin Thicke with four. Justin Timberlake was the big winner on the night with four awards, including Video of the Year for "Mirrors" and the Michael Jackson Vanguard Award. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Bruno Mars and Taylor Swift were also among the winners of the night. The ceremony drew a total of 10.1 million viewers.
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Rich Lee Rich Lee is an American music video and commercial director signed to Native Content in Hollywood, California. He has directed music videos for Lana Del Rey, Maroon 5, Eminem, The Black Eyed Peas, Norah Jones, Michael Bublé and The All-American Rejects. Rich Lee started his professional career as a sculptor and fabricator for Broadway shows in New York City. He later moved on to computer graphics and created 3-D previsualizations for big budget Hollywood feature films such as the first three "Pirates of the Caribbean" films, "I Am Legend", "Minority Report" and "Constantine". From the encouragement of feature film directors he moved into directing music videos and commercials. He has directed commercials for brands like Fiat, Hyundai, Honda, Beats by Dre etc.
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Taj Stansberry Taj Stansberry (born in Oakland, California, United States) is an American director and photographer, known for his music videos with artists such as Rihanna, J Lo, Usher, Ne-Yo, John Legend, Young Jeezy, Ludacris, Keyshia Cole, Swizz Beatz, Eve, Wale and Big Sean.His video for J Lo's "On the Floor" is the most watched female video of all time on YouTube with over 800,000,000 views. He is currently developing a few feature projects as well.
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Djay Brawner Djay Brawner A.K.A D. Jay Brawner or D.Jay Brawner (born June 21, 1981) is an American director of music videos, film, and television.
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Shane Drake Shane C. Drake is an American music video director originally from Redding, California. He has directed videos for many artists, including Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Avril Lavigne, Trivium, Paramore, Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, Angels & Airwaves, Flo Rida, Timbaland, Blindside, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, The Almost, Hawthorne Heights, Stinkaholic, Fernandez Vei, Fermata, Subseven, and AJR.
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2U (album) 2U is the second album by singer-songwriter Keshia Chanté, released by BMG in Canada on December 2006 and Japan. The album is two-time Juno Award nominated. Sony Urban/Epic Records released both "Summer Love" and "Been Gone" in the U.S. The video for the first single "Been Gone" was directed by Director X. Her second "2U" was shot in Miami in 2006. Her third single "Fallen" was released as two versions, featuring both Drake (musician) and Freeway (rapper).
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Sarah Chatfield Sarah Chatfield is an English music video director, based in London and Los Angeles. She is represented by UK production company Colonel Blimp. Her video for Lily Allen's single "Alfie", earned her Best New Director and Best Pop video at the CAD awards. Music videos directed by Chatfield include Lykke Li ("Breaking It Up"), Lenka ("Heart Skips a Beat"), Leah LaBelle ("Sexify"), Kelly Rowland ("Motivation") and The Saturdays ("What About Us" & "What Are You Waiting For?").
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Taras Kulakov Taras Kulakov (Russian: Тара́с Кулако́в ; ] ), better known as CrazyRussianHacker, is a Russian YouTuber best known for his "life hacks", scientific experiments (or in other terms: science experiment demonstration, science demonstrations), testing videos and his motto "Safety is number one priority." His YouTube channel, "CrazyRussianHacker", created on May 18, 2012, has over 2.7 billion views and 10 million subscribers (as of August 2017) and is one of the medium's top 200 channels. He has an estimated net worth of around $5 million. He owns two huskies, Hugo and Luke, and is an avid beekeeper. Recently (Mid-2017), Taras has acquired a white bird, which he has named 'Gamma.' He also has a second YouTube channel "Taras Kul" with over 2.8 million subscribers.
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Oscar Rodrigues Alves Oscar Rodrigues Alves (also known as Oscar Rodrigues Alves Neto), born September 29, 1969, is a Brazilian film director, editor, producer and web entrepreneur. He is a founder of MTV Brasil as well as the writer, editor and director of "Titãs – A Vida Até Parece Uma Festa" ("Titãs - Life Even Looks Like a Party"), a 2008 Brazilian documentary about the rock band Titãs from its inception. The documentary was the recipient of the 2009 MTV Video Music Brazil Best Musical Documentary or Movie award. He also won the 2002 Video of the Year, Best Rock Video and Viewer’s Choice for Titãs' "Epitáfio". He has won 10 MTV Video Music Brazil since 2001.
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Beyond the Veil (song) "Beyond the Veil" is the first single of Lindsey Stirling's second studio album "Shatter Me". The song was released on iTunes on March 24, 2014, and the official YouTube video was released a day later. The video proved to be a success as it accumulated half a million views in its first day. The song topped the "Billboard" Classical Digital songs chart for the first four weeks. This single is the first in the track list of the twelve songs that conform her second studio album and, according to Lindsey, it was the first song she composed on her album. The behind-the-scenes video was released a week later, on March 31, where Stirling explained the message of the song and its composition.