NEWS: MVPA Award Winners 2006

The 15th annual MVPA Awards were held last night, May 11, at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles. And the winners are...

• Video of the Year
  Audioslave "Doesn’t Remind Me" (Chris Milk, director - Radical Media)
• Director of the Year
   Marc Webb (DNA)
• Direction of a Male Artist
  Joseph Kahn for Jamiroquai "Feels Just Like It Should" (HSI)
• Direction of a Female Artist
  Floria Sigismondi for Fiona Apple "O’ Sailor" (Revolver)
• Direction of a New Artist
  Mike Myerburg for The Like "What I Say And What I Mean" (Factory Features)
• Directorial Debut
  Scott Speer for Switchfoot "Stars" (HSI)

GENRE CATEGORIES

• Adult Contemporary
  Gwen Stefani "Cool" (Sophie Muller, director – Factory @ Oil Factory)
• Pop
  All-American Rejects "Move Along" (Marc Webb, director - DNA)
• Hip-Hop
  Kanye West "Heard ‘Em Say" (Michel Gondry, director - Partizan)
  R & B
  Stevie Wonder "What The Fuss" (Paul Hunter, director - HSI)
• Alternative
  The White Stripes "Blue Orchid" (Floria Sigismondi, director - Revolver Film Co)
• Rock
  Foo Fighters "The Best of You" (Mark Pellington, director - Merge @ Crossroads)
• Electronic
  Daft Punk "Technologic" (Thomas Bangalter & Guyman de Hamam Christo, director - Daft Arts)
• Cross Promotion
  Jessica Simpson "These Boots Are Made For Walking" (Brett Ratner, director - HSI)
• International
  Robbie Williams "Tripping" (Johan Renck, director - Black Dog)
• Under $25,000
  Bright Eyes "At the Bottom of Everything" (Cat Solen, director - Strato)
• Animated
  Nine Inch Nails "Only" (David Fincher, director - Anonymous Content)

TECHNICAL CATEGORIES

• Art Direction
  The White Stripes "The Denial Twist" (Jeff Everett & John Ferguson)
• Cinematography
  Audioslave "Doesn’t Remind Me" (Danny Hiele)
• Choreography
  Missy Elliott "Lose Control" (Hi Hat)
• Colorist/Telecine
  My Chemical Romance "Helena" (Bob Curreri)
• Editing
  Audioslave "Doesn’t Remind Me" (Livio Sanchez w/ Angelo Valencia)
• Special Effects
  Beck "Girl" (Motion Theory)
• Styling
  My Chemical Romance "Ghost of You" (Marjan Malakpour)
• Hair
  Fiona Apple "O’ Sailor" (Pamela Neal)
• Make-Up
  Madonna "Hung Up" (Gina Brooke)

NEW RELEASE: Arctic Monkeys "The View From The Afternoon"

Arctic Monkeys
"The View From The Afternoon" (Domino)
WIZ, director| Factory Films UK (Oil Factory in the US), production co | Description: Pity the drummer. Always forced to sit in the back behind everyone else. The butt of nearly every musician joke. Occasionally forced to have silly nicknames like The Cat. Well, have no pity for Arctic Monkeys drummer Matthew "The Cat" Helders, who is [not] the star of this beautiful b&w video. Helders sits at his kit and proceeds to bash out the drum parts to this rocker from a neighborhood playground. School girls stop by to admire his prowess. His bandmates can barely contain their jealousy. We can do nothing, but bow down to the fact that this is the first video to ever treat a drummer like he sits on a true throne. Correction: Video Static occasionally doesn't pay full attention to what he watches. As indicated by my hastily inserted parenthetical/editorial correction above, the drummer seen at the kit is not Matt Helders. It's someone else. So, disregard everything in the above review, except for my enthusiasm for this band and video. And, if you really like this band and want more more more, you should visit the Artic Monkeys fansite Mardy-Bum. -- watch "The View From The Afternoon" in QuickTime, Real or Windows Media

NEWS: RW Media Repping Dean Karr

RW Media has announced that they are now representing director Dean Karr, whose credits include the MTV Video Music Award winning clips "Sweet Dreams" for Marilyn Manson and "Crash Into Me" for Dave Mattthews Band.  Other directing credits include videos for  Deftones, Ozzy Osbourne, Cypress Hill and, most recently, Wicked Wisdom, Damian Marley, Seether, Shooter Jennings and Nickelcreek. Karr's videos will continue to be produced through his production company, The Mine.

NEWS: Ryan Rickett Joins A Band Apart

A Band Apart has signed director Ryan Rickett to their music video roster. Rickett has directed videos for the likes of  VHS Or Beta, She Wants Revenge and KillRadio. He is being repped in the US by Heidi Gregory and in the UK by Debroah Herbert.

NEW RELEASE: The Goo Goo Dolls "Stay With You"

The  Goo Goo Dolls
"Stay With You" (Warner Bros.)
P.R. Brown, director | Michael Angelos, producer | Anonymous Content, production co| Description: The Goo Goo Dolls perform on a stage backed by an LED screen mostly filled with images of a woman. Hundreds of bare lightbulbs dangle from the ceiling,  flickering on and off in conjunction with the video screen to form all sorts of patterns in this mostly b&w clip. -- watch "Stay With You" in QuickTime or Windows Media

SHOT: Leela James - Lenny Bass, director

artist: Leela James
song: "Good Time"
label: Warner Bros.
director(s): Lenny Bass
production co: DNA

SHOT: The Kooks - Diane Martel, director

Shot in Tijuana, Mexico...

artist: The Kooks
song: "She Moves In Her Own Way"
label: Virgin UK
director(s): Diane Martel
production co: DNA

SHOT: Mozella - Nzingha Stewart, director

artist: Mozella
song: "Love Is Something"
label: Maverick/Warner Bros.
director(s): Nzingha Stewart
production co: DNA

SHOT: Alison Ray - Jay Martin, director

artist: Alison Ray
song: "Does The DJ Know?"
label: Chime
director(s): Jay Martin
production co: DNA

NEWS: Ish Muniz Launches Highway 114 Pictures

Executive Producer Ish Muniz has announced the formation of his new production company, Highway 114 Pictures. Also directing under the Highway 114 banner are Eric Welch, Andrew Bennett, Ismael Muniz, Nicolas Hill and Dori Oskowitz. Justin Cronkite is with the company as the music video rep.

Ish Muniz was formerly the Executive Producer at Epix Films.