Drew Lightfoot
| Drew Lightfoot | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Andrew Lightfoot August 22, 1978 British Columbia, Canada |
| Website | http://www.drewlightfoot.com/ |
Drew Lightfoot is a Canadian director of commercials and music videos. He has also worked as an animator, and continues to use animation as a director, to varying degrees, sometimes using stop-motion and CGI in his commercials and videos.
Lightfoot first directed commercials when he began working with Toronto-based HeadGear Animation in 2001. He signed to Canadian Production Company Soft Citizen in 2006, and with Furlined for representation in the USA in 2008; his career now seems to be more focused on live-action work. He has directed commercials for clients including Apple, Bud Light, Ikea, M&Ms, MTV Canada, Sony, and Target.
Lightfoot's music video works include those for The Trews, k-os,Kate Havnevik, The Raconteurs, Matt Mays and El Torpedo, Constantines, Guster,In-Flight Safety, Moufette, and The Cure.
In 2008, Lightfoot's video for Kate Havnevik's "Unlike Me" won Best Direction in the Adult Contemporary genre at the MVPA Awards in Los Angeles.
Drew Lightfoot's animated/Super-8 video for Constantines "Working Full Time" won the Special Jury Award at the SXSW Film Festival in 2007, after screening at the festival.
He won an MVPA Award in 2007 for Best Animated Video for Guster's "One Man Wrecking Machine", which received 2 additional MVPA nominations: Directorial Debut, and Best Video Produced for Under $25,000.
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