Christian Halili is one of the most prolific director, photographer and cinematographers in the Philippines. As a Fine Arts graduate of the University of the Santo Tomas, he possesses the requisite visual acuity to frame excellent still and moving images. He refined his skill in advertising photography under Raul Montifar, one of the masters in the field.
Putting his innate skills and superior training into practice, Christian built up an advertising portfolio that includes top brands in the automotive, real estate, cosmetics, personal care, home care, and telecommunications industries. His photographic works have appeared in the country’s leading magazines—including Cosmopolitan, Preview, Rogue, Esquire, Town & Country, TopGear, Yes, Men’s Health, Women’s Health, and Forbes—as well as commissioned coffeetable books. Christian, was also invited in Fotomoto Manila 2021 the photography of the most renowned portrait photographers in the country.
His awards include Honorable Mention for his work entitled “Liquid” at the PX3 Photographie de Paris 2008, two Anvil Awards of Excellence (2009 and 2012), and a GMA7 MTV Awards 2007 for Best Videography, 2018 Asian Spikes Awards, 2018 Summit Congress Award, Quill Award for Insular Life Annual Report 2019, Kantar Creative and Effectiveness Awards Pilipinas 2021, Shortlisted WARC Awards for Asian Strategy 2021.
“Miko Livelo is a Filipino film and TV director. He started his career as a motion graphics artist and soon directed his first film, Blue Bustamante (2013), his entry to the Cinema One Film Festival. The film premiered internationally at the Osaka Asian Film Festival. In 2014, he wrote and directed series, ads and films. His most famous series is Tanods, a digital series about a ragtag group of neighborhood watch.
He also directed Sa Ngalan ni Ultimate Warrior (In the Name of Ultimate Warrior), a short film for the QCinema International Film Festival 2014 about a kid’s love for wrestling. He joined The Ideafirst Company shortly after and directed a TV series #ParangNormal Activity (2016) and another fiction feature I Love You To Death (2016). He also did a friendship-comedy film, ‘Tol (2019), and Unlilife (2019), a fantasy-comedy adventure film.
His latest works were comedic and family-centric ads and a comedy horror film for Vivamax called SA HABA NG GABI (2021)
His style is based on his personal experiences Philippine pop culture, humor, and famliy mixed with his fascination with Japanese tokusatsu shows.”
“Director Nui Cortes is an international TVC and branded content director with a “shoot-to-sell” attitude.
He considers himself a salesman using art in motion.
Having spent some time as an art-based creative director before, he has a good grasp of the marketing and creative objectives that’s why he can translate the idea into an effective and award-winning film.
His wide experience in shooting and post production around Asia, Europe and South America help him come up with quick creative solutions to every production problem that one may encounter.
His collaborative attitude allows him to craft the most unique visual approach and apply the most elevant filming and post production techniques to effectively make the storyboard come alive and stand out, in the most cost-effective way.
He shoots not just to satisfy his lust for artistic visual work but more so to strongly engage the target market and sell the brand.”
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Tan Khiang (TK) hails from Advertising, having spent 21 of his formative years in Advertising agencies like Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett, Grey, Euro RSCG, M&C Saatchi and Publicis. His last appointment was as ECD at M&C Saatchi.
AOE is a Film Direcrot based in Bangkok, Thailand. He is an experienced and multiskilled for Short film, commercials and TV director who guarantees to bring extremely high quality stylish visuals combined with strong storytelling. Not only a confident director on location he also has the ability and experience to self edit and shoot to an extremely high standard. He has a reputation for gaining the trust and utmost respect from screen talent, crew and works very well with clients when working with brands or agencies. He works extremely hard, takes a lot of pride in his work and loves the job he does. He enjoys challenges and always works to a very high standard even in high pressured situations.
Michael Frings started his career as a director for commercials after graduating from the Film Academy Baden -Wuerttermberg – Germany in 2000. He has worked in Europe, Asia, Africa, North- and South America, UAE, Russia, Ukraine as well as recent projects for New Zealand and China.
His strengths lie in combining visuals with editing and sound design which is a direct result of his background. His ability to experiment with film material by using non-linear editing systems gives him an opportunity to create a unique style of work. Michael’s work reflects his background as an editor at ARRI-TV and Das Werk in Munich. His commercials and music videos show his expertise of compositing images with 3d computer animation to see what is possible and how to integrate it with live action. His passion is the interaction of visuals and sound.
Michael received the Art Director’s Club award in Germany for his Nike – “Runner’s High” commercial, and as a result received an invitation to present it at the Cannes Film Festival. Further he was awarded for Ikea Sleep ABC with the IDEA 2008 TV Silver, ADCR Award 2008 and Bronze for TVCs at the Kyiv Festival 2008 TV.
Jake Morales graduated from the University of Asia and the Pacific, with a Master’s Degree in Integrated Marketing Communications. Soon after, he pursued a career in DDB Philippines as a copywriter working on both digital and above the line campaigns for some of the country’s biggest brands. This also began his love for advertising film, as he got more immersed in different productions.
He later joined Bates CHI & Partners under the Ogilvy and Mather Philippines Group, further honing his skills in copywriting and creative direction, where he used his developing cinematography and video editing skills to help sell his ideas to his clients.
After having conceptualised numerous TVCs and online videos, he finally decided that after four years, it was time to pursue a career in Film Directing.
He was given the opportunity to pursue his passion as he became the In-house Director and Production Lead for Ogilvy and Mather Philippines’ production arm. Within just a few months, his film portfolio started growing, as he began directing online videos for Ogilvy’s multi-national brands.
His film works showcase his liking towards dramatic and crisp visuals, but his love for narratives is also showcased in his comedic commercial works.
In 2018, he joined Yellow Brick Road Productions as one of their in-house directors, hungry for cinematic creativity.
Adrielle Esteban found her passion for filmmaking during her college days. Her portfolio of short films grew as she trained under the University of the Philippines Film Institute back in 2008 to 2012.
Looking at color grading as her expertise, she became a colorist while being an apprentice to one of the most sought after colorist in Asia. During this apprenticeship, she competed and won in several film festivals with her undergraduate thesis entitled, Tanglaw. Last 2013, she won as the director and writer of the said short film in Manhattan International Film Festival New York, USA. A year after, National Commission for Culture and the Arts has recognized her international achievement with her short film and awarded her with the “Ani ng Dangal” (Harvest of Honors) award.
Shortly after this, she started directing and colorgrading advertisements working with several production houses. She has found her expertise as a director, focusing on narrative storytelling and lifestyle ads.
This year 2017, she has decided to follow the Yellow Brick Road Productions and became one of their in house directors.