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Manuel brings with him a distinctive visual style honed making high-end commercials across Europe, collecting a string of awards along the way. His considerable technical prowess stems from a remarkable range of experience prior to his directing career including a stint as a flame op, work in casting and spells in the production and camera departments.

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GJ Echternkamp studied experimental and narrative film at Bard College and upon graduating immediately began directing music videos for major label bands, including the Mates of State (Polyvinyl) and Giant Drag (Interscope). In 2003 GJ launched bionicfilms.com to showcase a growing and varied body of work that featured music videos and narrative shorts, as well as documentaries and pre-YouTube viral videos. In 2006, FRANK & CINDY, a documentary about GJ’s own dysfunctional family, won the Best Documentary award at Raindance, Seattle, and Calgary film festivals. The film garnered rave reviews from critics, most notably from Ira Glass of “This American Life” fame, who declared, “Every single thing about FRANK & CINDY seems new and fresh and alive. It’s rare to see a documentary that’s so raw and funny and infuriating too.” The Emmy-nominated Showtime series went on to dedicate an entire episode to the making of FRANK & CINDY. The scripted adaptation is now in pre-production at American Zoetrope.

In 2008, GJ produced, wrote, and acted in the controversial film A NECESSARY DEATH, which won the Audience Award at the AFI Film Festival. That same year he also competed in VH1′s reality show “Shoot to Kill”, in which music video directors remake popular videos from the 80′s and 90′s. GJ’s video for “Walk Like an Egyptian” by the Bangles took home the grand prize.

Richard Swarbrick is a multi-media director based in London.

His creative and technical skills have been developed through a career encompassing film editing, photography and graphic design. He is also an accomplished After Effects operator.

As a director, Richard has developed a remarkable range of animation techniques many of which he combines to great effect with live action.

His football animations ‘Bale’ and ‘El Clasico’ have had huge viral impact internationally clocking up over a million views on YouTube alone and have featured on myriad newspaper and magazine sites as well as football, film and cultural blogs.

View Richard’s amazing reel by clicking on the image above

Les Freres Moustache are a truly amazing multi media collective lurking in the depths of Paris. They work with live action, animation, motion graphics and superb graphic design. We are delighted to have them working here with H&A.

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And in their own words..
“Back in 1999, two French Parisian moustache met during graphic design course at ESAG/Penninghen. Guided through the channel by the fascinating moving image universe, they decided to grow as traditional English moustache style and in the United Kingdom, they lived for a while. Later, as they came back to their original wild and gallic country, they grew by their own: one in agency and the other as director for some years. But they missed each other, and decided to join their combs: Moustache was born.”

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As lead director of Channel 4‘s Fresh Meat, David C. Kerr set the style and assembled the cast for a show described by The Sun as “brilliant new comedy drama” and by The Guardian as “smart, sympathetic and pretty much adorable from the get-go.”
In December 2011, Fresh Meat was named “Best New Comedy” at the British Comedy Awards – and Fresh Meat’s Jack Whitehall, in his first screen acting role, was nominated for “Best Comedy Actor.”

David himself has been nominated twice for the BAFTA Best Comedy Award. He won the BAFTA in 2007 for Series One of That Mitchell & Webb Look, described by The Guardian as “the best sketch show in a decade,” and by The Hollywood Reporter as “uproarious and cleverly cheeky.”

Click on the image above to view David’s reel.

David has worked with some of the biggest names in British comedy, including Steve Coogan, Matt Lucas, David Walliams, Vic Reeves, Johnny Vegas and Griff Rhys-Jones.
He has also helmed some of Britain’s most talked-about comedy drama: BBC1’s Cutting It, starring Sarah Parish; ITV’s Footballers Wives starring Joan Collins; and Whites, starring Alan Davies for BBC2 / Hulu.

David is currently working with BMB – putting the finishing touches to a series of TV commercials for Laterooms.com.

Later this year, he will be returning to lead direct the eagerly-awaited second series of Fresh Meat.

Martin Aamund’s film career started in making documentaries. He worked on many respected films for stations such as Channel 4 in the UK and Channel Plus in France.

Since then he has moved into commercials where he has established himself as a director of the highest calibre, working all over the World.

Martin has made Worldwide campaigns for clients such as McDonalds,
Nokia and the United Nations.

He has won several awards in festivals such as Cannes, Epica awards, and
New York film advertising awards.

We are hugely excited to announce the addition of multimedia collective Blind to the Hotspur & Argyle roster. Set up in 1995 Blind have crafted beautiful campaigns for clients like Sony, Honda, Amnesty International, Volkswagen and Xbox 360. World class practitioners in 2D and 3D animation, AFX, Editorial, Live Action, Vfx stop motion, CGI and motion graphics, Blind’s best known UK commercial to date is the widely lauded Imagination for the Audi A7, a stylised journey through the mind of an automotive designer for BBH that was inducted into the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Click the still from Imagination above to see Blind’s current reel.

As well as work across commercials, broadcast, film, web and branding they have made stunning music videos for the likes of Gnarls Barkley, The Raveonettes and Justin Timberlake which can be seen by clicking the stills below.

Blind’s countless awards include two Creative Arts Emmy’s from the Television Academy of Arts & Sciences, numerous Promax BDA awards, Addy’s and Telly’s and a D&AD pencil for their title sequence for the short film Crank Calls. So you can see why we’re excited…

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Theo Delaney is a prolific, award-winning commercials director. He has made ads all over the world earning a reputation for versatility but is best known for his performance and comedy work.

He has won awards at The Cannes International Festival, D&AD, British Television Advertising Awards and Creative Circle among numerous others.

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After spells at Tony Kaye Films, Spots and Tomboy Films he set up Hotspur and Argyle in 2002 with producer Danny Fleet.

A keen sports fan with a particular love of football he also makes sports documentary films and works across a range of new media through Hotspur and Argyle’s sister company Contentment Worldwide.

He also directed the award-winning short film drama The Call.

His Coca Cola campaign for Mother scooped seven diplomas at the 2008 British Television Advertising Awards as well as the year’s Best Viral Award. His Nokia nGage virals for Work Club were nominated at the 2009 D&AD awards and the ‘Two Rays’ viral film he wrote and directed for the Football Association’s Respect Programme won a 2009 Shark Award at the Kinsale Festival.