Dell Commercial for Poptent

Commercial for the Dell xps z. It didn’t win, but it is one of my favorite pieces.

Music: By Kevin MacLeod

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Poptent Tivo Commercial

Just submitted these for the Poptent competition for Tivo. Hopefully they make some sense to people.

 


 


 

 
Performers: Danielle Barker & Tony Babcock
Directed by: Aveek Mansur
 
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Poptent – Breast Cancer Commercial

Well, the bad news is that the Netflix Commercial did not make the cut. The good news is that we’ve moved on to the next project. Check out our submission for the American Cancer Society Breast Cancer commercial for their October funding drive.

Keep those fingers crossed.

Performer: Samora Smallwood
Behind the Scenes: Jonathan Duder & Jonathan Krimer
Music: Aveek Mansur
Directed by: Aveek Mansur

Poptent – Netflix Commercial

I discovered poptent.net late last week. They collaborate with brands and allow filmmakers to submit commercials in ad campaign competitions. That’s the most succinct way I can describe them. But visit their site for more information.

So I looked through the current competitions and saw the deadline fast approaching for Netflix. I quickly put together a rag tag idea and with the help of good crew members, I put this together and uploaded it.

Will write more about poptent as I discover more.

Enjoy.

Performers: Samora Smallwood & Ty Kostyk
Directors of Photography:
Jonathan Duder
Kevin Song
PA: Kaleel John
Written and Directed by: Aveek Mansur

Tim Harwill – Spinner of Tales

The song below is one of my favorite tracks from Tim Harwill. It’s a catchy tune. You may find out more about yourself than the songwriter himself from this one.

Enjoy the music. Replay it. Come back and play it again.

Check out more of Tim’s work at www.timharwill.com

Production Team –
Directors of Photography: Jonathan Duder & Jonathan Krimer
Audio: Guy McLoughlin
Director/Editor: Aveek Mansur
Co-Producer: Jonathan Krimer
Producer: Toronto Picture Company
 

Tim Harwill – On These Roads

Tim Harwill is a singer of Country Music, from Alberta, Canada. He is a solo artist and is currently on tour, singing at pubs, clubs and coffee joints across Canada. He was passing through Toronto and stopped by for a chat.

We will post some of the conversations in the coming days. For now, Here is a song called “On These Roads” from a new album he is working on.

(Director’s Note: There is some experimentation going on in this little film. We’re playing with the angles and the colors, and trying to learn a bit as we do it too. Also, the Sennheiser Lav, which I bought cause everybody says its so bloody fantastic, constantly kept picking up frequency static, although all the cell phones were off, to the best of my knowledge. Also, since I don’t have a sound proof studio, if you have really good speakers, you might hear police sirens outside your window)
 

Check out more of Tim’s work at www.timharwill.com

Production Team –
Directors of Photography: Jonathan Duder & Jonathan Krimer
Audio: Guy McLoughlin
Director/Editor: Aveek Mansur
Co-Producer: Jonathan Krimer
Producer: Toronto Picture Company
 

The Artist’s Quest – Stormm Bradshaw on Typecasting

Stormm Bradshaw is an actor. He has dreadlocks. He is also black. Sometimes, in the superficial world of the entertainment industry that we’re all part of, it can be quite a challenge to land a role that defies easy stereotypes. In the video below, Stormm talks about those challenges.
Enjoy!!

Stormm Bradshaw has screen credits for movies like Exit Wounds, Don’t Say A Word and You Are Here, among other works for both screen and television.

 
Production Team –
Directors of Photography: Mickey Dutta & Jonathan Krimer
Audio: Kaleel John
Director/Editor: Aveek Mansur
Co-Producer: Jonathan Krimer
Producer: Toronto Picture Company
 
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The Artist’s Quest – Stormm Bradshaw on The Struggle

This is part of a series of interviews we are doing trying to find out why artist’s do what they do. Stormm Bradshaw provides his thoughts on the subject. More interviews to come.

Enjoy!!
 

 
Here’s a link to Stormm’s highly impressive Actor Reel:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7ry6I1jVBw

Production Team –
Directors of Photography: Mickey Dutta & Jonathan Krimer
Audio: Kaleel John
Director/Editor: Aveek Mansur
Co-Producer: Jonathan Krimer
Producer: Toronto Picture Company
 
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The Canadian Mafia

Ladies and Gentlemen,
I present to you, The Canadian Mafia, or La Cosa Nostra del nord.
Enjoy the video. (On YouTube, this video may not be available in Germany at the moment because of a copyright issue with YouTube. I’m disputing it right now, cause I paid for the damn royalty free rights to the music)
 

 
I hope you like the above video. The sound is a problem, but that’s because I screwed up the sound. I’m still learning, what else can I say. I had to end up using the on camera sound to save the film.

Performers (in alphabetical order) :
Michael Maloley
Anthony Morra
Michael Oshust
Michael-Angelo Pillarella
Samora Smallwood

Production Team:
Craig Lowe: Co-Producer and Assistant Director
Directors of Photography: Mickey Dutta and Jonathan Krimer
Written & Directed by: Aveek Mansur

Allan Michael Brunet – on Success as an Actor

This is another instalment from the interview with Michael. If you are an artist, struggling to make it, you will find strength in Michael’s explanation of success.

Since Michael explains everything better than I can, I’m just going to stop writing and let you watch the video.

Enjoy!!!

Allan Michael Brunet – on Success as an Actor from True Indie Project on Vimeo.

Production Team –
Directors of Photography: Kevin Davidson & Jonathan Krimer
Audio: Jonathan Duder
Director/Editor: Aveek Mansur
Producer: Toronto Picture Company