LYNDY STOUT REVIEW

Searchlight: Ivan Villafuerte

Ivan Villafuerte is a 24 year old filmmaker based in Chicago, recently signed to Hungry Man. He’s been making short, non-narrative, internet movies for three years and now has just shot and directed Hammock’s latest music video for their track Tornado Warning. The filming feels organic as if you just came across this scene while [...]

Sign me up: Jan Mantanakorn

Forget Santa Monica, Sydney or Soho, Bangkok has become one of our favourite creative cities in the world and there we met new director Jan Mantanakorn who talked to us about her fledging career as a film maker. Where did you train to become a director? After graduating from Faculty of Architecture and Planning I began [...]

Brilliant BETC baby bop by YDA winners

Just look what a difference a year can make. From winning First Prize for Webfilm and Second Prize for European Broadcast categories at the YDA show in Cannes last year, new directors We Are From LA – who are actually handsome French boys from Paris – have now directed BETC’s prime spot for their famous [...]

Searchlight: Andre Chocron

We love to see work that has a certain individuality, a new fresh way of telling a visual story. One such new director is Andre Chocron who left his Norwegian film school two years ago and has since been rocking out a series of eclectic music videos. Andre, so since leaving film school what [...]

YDA winner update: Andreas Roth

Baden Wurtemberg Film Academy student Andreas Roth has been a regular winner and finalist on YDA – see his earlier work below. Now in his final year at the film school, Roth’s piece for Herbaria Tea is a master piece in post work. Here he tells us about the production. The project is my [...]

Former music video director now exec creative director Eric Cruz talks about the value of trusting new directors

Eric Cruz has worked in many markets – W+K Lab in Tokyo, as well as in London and is now creative director for Leo Burnett Kuala Lumpur. We loved his directing work for Japanese band Hafana all those years ago when he was at Tokyo Lab – so he certainly knows the vibey young directing scene. [...]

WHO IS LYNDY STOUT ?

Lyndy Stout edits and curates the online magazine and creative showcase OnePointFour which features the hottest international short-form film making talent. In other lives she edited shots for over a decade, was deputy editor of Creative Review, and was also a travel writer.