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Click through to see Emma Freeman’s latest spot for TRUenergy.

• View "Darkness" here

June 3^rd 2008, 6.30pm  @ The Local Taphouse, Carlisle Street

The advertising industry is FILLED with talent and creative minds. ‘Tangerine’ fosters the environment for brilliant work to be presented:  Short Films, Music Videos, Documentary, and Animation, anything that is NOT a commercial!

Everyone is welcome to submit work to screen; directors, creatives, art directors, writers, editors, producers are all encouraged.  This forum also extends to UNSIGNED directors; exhibiting their work, voicing new talent and potentially being ‘discovered’ or ‘signed’. 

‘Tangerine’ is the first Tuesday of each month and free to attend.  Early in the week gives a chilled vibe, have a drink (drinks specials and food available) after work, sit and enjoy some great films and mingle with your industry peers, old and new. 

The Local Taphouse, (184 Carlisle Street) situated in East St Kilda is a beautiful venue with great facilities, beer, and food; it is comfortable, social and close to the majority of Advertising Agency and Production Company Offices.

Doolan ‘Boars’ them to tears… of laughter as the new Mars ‘ROCKS’ commercial
Breaks out this month. The real challenge was to find a matching boar and bear in the
Weird and wonderful world of taxidermists.

Leeming was thrilled with the result as Jamie Doolan effortlessly entered the world of
Youth culture.

• View "Boar" here

Matt Kamen has just delivered a knockout music-vid for Melbourne based hip-hop outfit, True Live. Sneaking the project in between commercial jobs, Matt made the clip for the single “Damn Right”, taken from the band’s upcoming second album. 

“We wanted to do a Point-of-view shot of an underground boxing match,” Kamen says. “To make it feel real, I wanted Ryan to take a few punches but his commitment to this blew me away! After 5 minutes he was spitting blood and couldn’t focus properly. To get the shots I needed we went on for another 40 minutes, I hope he can still rhyme on stage.”

The clip was shot entirely on an old single clip video camera, with front-man Ryan Ritchie instructed to do his best to belt the crap out the camera and break it. Cinematographer Simon Ozolins’ fantastically grungy lighting was supplemented with a VHS degradation post-path and a colour grade to bring out tobacco flavoured skin tones and inky blue blacks.

• View "Damn Right" here

Matt and Chris have just returned from a fantastic trip to Adfest in Thailand where Matt picked up a Bronze award for Best New Director. We congratulate him!

You can check out Matt’s reel here , or contact Chris to have a DVD reel delivered to your desk.

Mat Humphrey has just completed another hard hitting campaign to raise awareness for road safety from the TAC.

The campaign launched on the 18th March and sales of protective clothing have already started rising with consumers mentioning the advertising when coming in to purchase the gear.

It was great to team up again with Nigel & Pete for another memorable, if graphic safety message for the TAC.

• View "Motorbike" here
• View "Scooter" here

It’s all about the moment with Matt Kamen’s new performance piece for FOXTEL. This polished 35mm spot is Matt’s first and exciting job out of Sydney is purely based around direction performance.

The one-day shoot on two locations, to create 2 spots ‘Half-Time’ and ‘The Lawyer’ has turned out to be a huge success and the award winning agency Three Drunk Monkeys were fantastic to work with.

3 Drunk Monkeys (Founding Partners: Scott Nowell, Mark Green and Justin Drape) won B & T Emerging Agency of the Year 2007 and pride themselves on creating innovative and entertaining ideas, CD Shane Gibson, CW Nick Morrissey and AD Sam Chapel came up with two great ideas, our personal favourite (‘the lawyer’) of the two can bee seen above.

• View "Lawyer" here

Continuing the series of Worksafe Victoria’s emotive and affecting TVC’s, Director Mat Humphrey has just completed the latest installment, titled School Play.

This spot follows Shannon’s Way’s successful formula of a family waiting for Dad to arrive home safely from his working day, this time to his daughter’s kinder play.

Written by Jacqui Shannon and Creative Director Rob Dow, this 90 sec TVC is currently airing in Victoria, and promises to evoke the emotion and thought this message deserves.

• View "School Play" here

Mat Humphrey has recently completed a new anti-smoking spot for The Campaign Palace Sydney that sheds an ironic light on smokers’ habits.

In contrast to some of the more graphic anti-smoking health messages this new commercial exposes smokers’ habitual behaviour by comparing the relationship with smoking to a friendship, and highlights the destructive nature of addiction.

The 30sec commercial, written by Executive Creative Director: Paul Fishlock, is airing on NSW television and in cinemas.

• View "If Smoking Was a Friend" here

Having just finished three spots for Triple M we’re pleased to announce that the “Weather Presenter” spot was selected for “Best Ads on TV” for the week starting 14th Jan. Working with three great scripts from Peter Hibberd and Jim Ingram at GPYR Melbourne, the Kamen boys relished the opportunity to indulge in some oddball performance comedy for a client only too willing to push the envelope.

• View "Politician" here
• View "Weather Presenter" here
• View "Business Pitch" here

Director Damien Kelly has teamed up with creative hot shop The Foundry on a couple of new spots for Snooze. Building on the already successful ‘Sleep Well’ campaign, the two spots are called ‘First Time’ and ‘Hand Me Down.’ Both were conceived and written by Creative Director’s Annie Price (Melbourne) and Ian Brown (Sydney). Featured here is ‘First Time’, which depicts a young couple moving in together but all they really care about is making their new bed. If you you wish to grab a copy of Damien’s latest reel, contact Helene Nicol at The Guild on (03) 9529 8100.

• View "First Time" here
• View "Hand Me Down" here

Director Damien Kelly and Producer Garett Mayow have just completed a new Repco spot for M&C Saatchi, Melbourne. Continuing on from the ‘Cars are our life too’ campaign, the story involves an inventive rev head using a car jack to raise his little old Mum up so she can enjoy Xmas dinner with him. With the tag line ‘Get everything you need this Xmas’, it’s the first spot for Repco since M&C won the business. It was written by dynamic young team Aaron Pepper and Daniel Grech and helmed by creative maestro Steve Crawford.

• View "Nanna" here