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Stuart Warren-Hill is an award-winning audio-visual artist who is always experimenting with how sound and vision can be blended to produce integrated audio-visual experiences. As part of the seminal UK AV duo Hexstatic, he has performed around the world at venues and festivals as diverse as the Guggenheim museum and the huge Electraglide raves inJapan for over 10,000 people, as well as a regular spot at the Big Chill festival, which he was instrumental in founding. Artists he has worked with include Coldcut and David Byrne and has also produced / directed audio visual projects for many clients, including The BBC, Getty Images, Greenpeace, MTV, and Sony BMG. You can find examples of Hexstatic's ground-breaking audio-visual work on Vimeo: www.vimeo.com/hexstatic

       
Dan Waite has been in the music and entertainment industry for 15 years. Starting at Virgin records, he has worked in Production, Promotion, Marketing and has worked as video co-ordinator. He then moved into PR for JVC Music Europe, before working in Marketing at online retailer Boxman, before moving to Universal Records as Marketing Manager for MCA and Dreamworks labels internationally. He helped launch 5.1 surround sound for music with Universal, SONY and Phillips before moving to MTV where he is Label Director as first point of call for the major record labels EMI, Virgin, Mute, Warner and Atlantic. Dan Waite has worked with Madonna, P Diddy, Coldplay, Robbie Williams, as well as breaking acts such as Hockey, Little Boots, Katy Perry and many others. www.mtv.co.uk


Ed Sayers is a commercials producer and 'Ed of Stuff' at Saatchi & Saatchi London, where he produced the T-Mobile 'Dance' and 'Singalong' campaigns. As Ed of Stuff he works across different departments according to projects and on various new agency initiatives. www.saatchi.co.uk

Ed is also founder of 'straight 8' - the 'one cartridge, no editing' film event that challenges anyone to make a 3-minute film on one cartridge of super 8 using only in-camera editing.  The best of each year's entries are shown at Cannes Film Festival and other exciting screenings around the world.  
www.straight8.net


Julia Stephenson moved to London from South Africa ten years ago. She has had a busy career in Advertising -  working at some of London’s top advertising agencies as well as production companies. Her love for people and passion for short content pushed her to start Short & Sweet, London’s only weekly short film evening, in May 2006. It has been a success ever since. Last year Short & Sweet organised a film challenge with Getty Images called the Getty Images and Short & Sweet film challenge. Four films were made and the winning film, “Photograph of Jesus” by Laurie Hill has just won the McLaren award at the Edinburgh film festival. This award adds to his Best Animation wins at Tampere Film Festival and Seattle International Film Festival. View the films here: filmchallenge.gettyimages.com.  www.shortandsweet.tv

 









  


Director Pekka Hara is a true Finnish export. A sign of this is the rather pompous title of "Best International Director" he was awarded with at Midsummer Awards in London 2005. A year later highly acclaimed Creativity magazine picked him to it's "Directors To Watch" article, which featured 20 most interesting up-coming directors around the world. His spots have been frequently hitting the finalist lists in Cannes, New York, Eurobest and Montreux and in 2009 he became the first Finn to win Silver Lion in Cannes since the beginning of the 80s. His most famous work include a true heavyweight campaign (EuroRSCG Worldwide) for Volvo in USA. Volvo “Rosi” made it’s way to the longest category name ever as 1 of 3 finalists: “the most emotionally compelling car commercial that ran on national TV (USA) in 2006” at Heart String Awards. Pardon, say again?  Anyway – other Hara classics are Philips Ambilight’s launch in China (DDB London) and his visual tour de force for Eniro “Home To Home”. The most recent success story is the launch campaign for Santander (EuroRSCG Helsinki) - “Live More” spot has gained notable attention among industry websites and blogs around the world.

Hara is represented by Stink (www.stink.tv) among other top companies.   More info and films can be found from www.pekkahara.com.


Ruben Goots is the founder, managing director & executive producer of Rabbit.  During the last 10 years he gained critical acclaim for his high standard work with Czar, which he founded in 1999.  A cornerstone in the Belgian ad world, he is also president of the Belgian Commercial Film Producers association CFP. www.rabbitcontent.com


Jort Schutte lives and works in Amsterdam. As an art director at creative agency ACHTUNG! (achtung.nl) he tries to make fun, new and engaging work for clients like Volkswagen, Skoda, Vodafone and O'Neill. Besides working at Achtung he's founder of and blogger at ilovenewwork.com, an inspiration and portfolio blog for creatives working in new media. Before he started working at Achtung he worked at online agency Qi (qi-ideas.com) on interactive campaigns for different clients. At Qi, Jort graduated in Multimedia Design on musicvideos for Heineken's on demand service 'Got'. He studied at the art academy of Rotterdam (Willem de Kooning Academie). Jort believes that: interactivity = real attention, to create for a living is the most fun job in the world and speedbikes rule! 


Noam Erlich has been working at Achung! since january 2007 and is responsible for large interactive productions, and likes to do a bit of copy writing on the side too. Ever since childhood Noam's had a keen ear for music, and a healthy interest in music videos. In the new era, special attention goes out to interactive music videos. Noam believes that the best interactive video site is yet to come but has seen some promising signs. After finishing university, he worked for two years in the emerging field of in-game advertising  in Europe. He received his Masters Degree at the University of Amsterdam and a minor in International Relations.