
NASA Mission Juno Project
I’m thrilled to announce that my commercial reel is now being hosted on the #Freethebid website. Special thanks to the folks at MAKE for making that happen.
Only 9.7 percent of rostered directors on the Adage Production Company A-List are women – only slightly higher than the seven percent of women who directed the top 250 movies in 2016.
#FreetheBid is an initiative guaranteeing women directors an equal opportunity to bid on commercial jobs in the advertising world. The initiative “calls for brands to encourage their agencies to include female directors in the bidding process and asks production companies to add more women to their rosters.”
The #FreeTheBid website hosts the reels of women directors, both signed to production companies and those without representation. It tracks the work that women do as a result of the initiative and will organize agency screenings featuring female talent as well as events to showcase work done by those who are a part of the platform.
Coca-Cola, McCann, JWT, BBDO, FCB, Mother, Ebay are among those pledging to include women directors in production bids.
#FreeTheBid founder and award-winning director Alma Har’el :
“I’m starting #freethebid so the ad industry can come together and take an affirmative step towards addressing what stops advertisers from working with women directors. I couldn’t have been an independent filmmaker and make the films I love if I didn’t make a living directing commercials. I want to make sure other women filmmakers have the same chance to sustain themselves while being creative and shaping the way women are represented in advertising. We have to start the change right now in the only practical and effective way – let women be heard.”
So yeah, let’s do this!
United Airlines & March of Dimes, mcgarrybowen
“Oprah Presents Master Class” for OWN
AMC Storymakers: Martin Scorsese
“Talking Dead” Chris Hardwick & me after the Georgia heat punched us in the face for 2 days, AMC
SAP NBA Run Live Series, BBDO
LeBron James “Authentic,” SapientNitro
USA Winter Olympics, Charlie White & Meryl Davis for Kellogg’s, Krisper
AMC Interviewing Tom Brokaw on the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid for “War Heroes Weekend”
“Iconoclasts” featuring Wyclef Jean & Venus Williams, The Sundance Channel
Tribeca Film Festival coverage for AMC
Carolinas Healthcare System, Campbell Ewald
Special thanks to
Bill Winters for many of these behind-the-scenes shots and for always making our collaborations look so beautiful.