'Innovation Never Sleeps'

I couldn't be more excited! I've been waiting many months to share my latest project that I had the pleasure of Directing! From mid May until late June I began directing a campaign for The Guardian Australia. The campaign is entitled 'Innovation Never Sleeps' and is an interactive web documentary that explores 24 hours in the lives of several unsung heroes of technology to reveal how they are achieving major advances across the nation. I had the privilege of traveling around Australia with Cinematographer Extraordinaire Campbell Brown to capture 5 different stories on Innovation. From working with Sabre Astronautics at the 4 Pines Brewing Company on creating the first ever drinkable Beer in Space to shooting the GE Locomotives for Roy Hill in Port Hedland, we had an absolute ball creating this campaign. This campaign was brilliantly led by our Captains Henry Richardson (Producer) and Mark Blondel (Creative Director) at Where There's Smoke. Thank you for managing such a great team and consistently keeping us motivated. I also had the pleasure of working with the Guardians Commercial Editor Claire Connelly who without her the content wouldn't have been what it is. Claire you're an amazing Journalist! All the videos were edited by the talented Benjamin Hargrave at Chase Editors. Without his speed and story telling ability, we would not of got all 15 films done in such a tight time schedule. Finally big thank you to Matt Fehrenbach for doing a beautiful job grading all the videos and stills. You are a grading wizard! To everyone else who worked on this campaign, thank you! This was a challenging project on so many levels, but with great teamwork we all came together and made something unique and special. Please take the time to look at the website! If you like it, please share it with your friends. Well done team...we did it!

https://labs.theguardian.com/innovation-never-sleeps/