Stay ConnectedOne-on-one chats with commercial directors, advertising agency creatives, actors, editors, producers, crew and more. Filmmaker Jordan Brady has directed of over 1300 spots , 4 feature films, 3 full-length documentaries and one Netflix special. The show is edited by Jake Brady.
Jordan is Founder of Commercial Directing Film School and owner of True Gentleman Industries, aka True Gent, a commercial production company in Los Angeles. Respect The Process, since 2013.
Production Designer Shawn Graves attacks every project with the same passion, whether it's a web series, a private gathering or a studio feature film. We chat about collaboration and her process. Please check out her website and enjoy this fine talk.
Happy 2018 everyone.
Jordan
Commercial Directing Bootcamp is April 21st, 2018 in Los Angeles.
Cinematographer/Producer Jordan Levy returns to the show and brings documentary filmmaker Michelle Kath Sinclair with him. Michelle's debut feature documentary is "Chicago: The Terry Kath Experience", a delightfully charming search for her guitar-shredding father, a founding member of Chicago, who died when Michelle was two years old. The film was a hit at the Toronto Independent Film Festival.
We chat about how the film came to be, the technical and legal challenges and more. We also explore the wonderful, healing effect making the film had on the surviving bandmates.
Rent, steam or buy the film here.
Happy Holidays,
Jordan
"I Am Battle Comic" is the perfect stocking stuffer.
AbelCine CEO Pete Abel discuss his company's long-standing commitment to educating our filmmaking community. In addition to their sales and renting the hottest new gear, AbelCine has a series of training workshops that keep us filmmakers up to speed. Pete and I share the philosophy that the tool must serves the story, and you'll love his origin story that got him in the game.
Full disclosure, AbelCine's new Brooklyn location in Industry City has me drooling to do a Commercial Directing Bootcamp there. Click here for the AbelCine Class and Workshops.
Thanks,
Jordan
This runs just over an hour. "I Am Battle Comic" makes a great gift. Just saying.
Writer/Producer/Director Judd Apatow is one of my favorite filmmakers, with "Knocked Up", "This is 40", "40 Year Old Virgin" and "Funny People" being my personal loves. As the ultimate Hollywood hyphenate, he's produced dozens of Brady family classics such as "Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy", the recent "The Big Sick" and the comedic tour-de-force "Talladego Nights: the Ballad of Ricky Bobby". So why after 22 years would Judd Apatow return to his roots of stand up comedy? Find out here.
Judd also shares his method of extracting the most from his entire filmmaking team actors, writers, directors and editors, never stopping until the film is it's funniest. I've always admired how he's encouraged his actors to write his or her own stories, and his support has brought us HBO's "Girls", "Crashing" and all things Franco.
Judd Apatow: The Return" debuts December 12th on Netflix. See the trailer here.
Enjoy!
Jordan
This chat is one hour and 40 plus minutes. And hey, "I Am Battle Comic" digital downloads make great stocking stuffers.
A former copywriter, Alex Grossman has always had a love for advertising. In 2011 he got his start directing commercials and was named one of the Top 25 New Commercial Directors by Shoot Magazine. His short mockumentary for Canal+ went on to win multiple lions at Cannes and his Gatorade work starring the Manning Brothers and JJ Watt got over 40 Million hits on YouTube in just over a month.
You're gonna love this chat.
thanks,
Jordan
This is an hour and 20 minutes of the good stuff. Commercial Directing Bootcamp will sell out soon. December 2, 2017 in LA. Hurry and sign up now.
Filmmaker Dulanie Ellis joins me for a spontaneous chat about her award-winning documentary "Ground Operations". It's an awesome story on the growing network of combat veterans who are transitioning into careers as sustainable farmers, ranchers and artisan food producers. Perfect for Veterans Day! In fact, make it a double feature with "I Am Battle Comic" this weekend.
Enjoy.
Jordan
This is a 45 minute talk. Commercial Directing Bootcamp is near full but a few left.
Talented Director/Producer Destri Martino founded The Director List, a database of female directors, when she realized there were far more qualified, working women directors than were getting the big opportunities. But we go back further than that! Destri worked as my overqualified Director's Assistant on two feature films, one for Miramax under now-known sexual predator Harvey Weinstein. So we dive deep into the on-set practices that are indeed abusive and harassing. #GetWoke
Thank you Destri for sharing all your insights.
Jordan
Commercial Directing Bootcamp is December 2nd, 2017 in LA. Sign up fast of waller in your stink.
Filmmaker Carlos Gutierrez is always working and he took time to skype with me and graciously share his filmmaking secrets, both on and off set. His has a fine film pedigree you can read here.
Check out his commercial reel at Superlounge.tv.
thanks,
Jordan
This is an hour and 19 minutes of commercial making heaven. Commercial Directing Bootcamp is Dec. 02 and will sell out. Sign up or suck forever.
Director Kinka Usher won the coveted Directors Guild of America award for his Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials twice, and he has more Cannes Lions that you can fit on the dining room table. Usher directed his first commercial in 1992 after working his way up from production assistant, camera assistant and steadicam operator. He has directed award-winning campaigns for Got Milk?, Polaroid, Nissan, Miller Lite, Taco Bell, Hallmark, Pepsi, HBO and Nike, many of which were featured at the Super Bowl.
As one of my filmmaking heroes, it's a true treat to have him on the podcast.
Thanks,
Jordan
This episode last 1 hour and 17 minutes.
Cinematographer Mike Svitak and I have shot more cars and comedy in the last 13 months than most filmmakers do in their entire career. In this episode, we chat about that, as well as his movie making experiences. And his new film, "6 Below" challenged him to extreme conditions. You will love this.
Thanks,
Jordan
This episode is an hour and 20 minutes. Next Commercial Directing Bootcamp is December 2nd, 2017 and is filling up fast.
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