Loss permeates through Lez Creative director Fiona Jane Burgess‘s haunting music video for PEAKES’ “Still Life.” Based on a deeply personal moment in the director’s life, “Still Life”‘s visual provides a balance to offset the piercing, somber beauty of frontwoman Molly Puckering‘s vocals. Individual women, closed off from one another [...]
When director Nadira Amrani was first introduced to South London’s British-Nigerian MC Flohio, she knew she had found the long-awaited subject for the contemporary take on a classic tale that she had been working on. “Wow,” Nadira recalls thinking, “I’ve found Icarus, and she’s a woman.” Flash forward two years, [...]
Last week, our Executive Director Emma Reeves traveled to Montreal to strengthen Free The Bid’s foothold in Montreal’s advertising industry! On Tuesday, November 6th, Emma met with a group of women directors (Tara Johns, Zoe Pelchat, Melanie Charbonneau, Charlotte Ratel, and Marie-Julie Dallaire) at the Montreal offices of production company [...]
London-based director Chloe Sheppard, newly signed to Forever, has a gaze that lingers. In frame after frame of her short film “A Much Better Illusion, Chloe’s lens fixates with laser-beam precision on Sylvie Makower, the film’s sole subject. Sylvie meets the camera’s gaze with her own, confronting viewers head-on. Shot [...]
(l – r) Free The Bid team members Mya Dodson, Chloe Coover, and Isabella Kestermann It’s here! The Free The Bid team (Alma Har’el, Emma Reeves, Mya Dodson, Chloe Coover, and Isabella Kestermann) are proud to support the Pitch Cool issue of Pitch Fanzine! Pitch Cool is the latest issue [...]
Alcoholism doesn’t always present the same face – in many cases, it can be a painfully familiar one. In her latest short film, “Girls Who Drink,” British writer-director Lily Rose Thomas, signed to the roster of production company MyAccomplice, provides a brutally honest observation of how insidious and mundane problem [...]
Camille, the newly 16 year-old protagonist of director Katharina Hingst‘s short film “Bloody Hell,” is becoming a grown woman, but not without a fight. She smashes a perfectly pink shade of lipstick into her mirror; uses the candles on her birthday cake to light a cigarette, buries her fingers suggestively [...]
South African director Jeana Theron‘s latest spot for whiskey brand J&B (which is committed to the Free The Bid cause under global drinks giant Diageo‘s pledge) is a celebration of all that can be achieved through collaboration. Musicians, painters, fashion designers, and other artists come together, creating a unique work [...]
Some advertising tropes die hard: women directors, regardless of their talent and creative prowess, are still rarely give the chance to tackle automotive and sports projects. B-Reel Films Scandinavia director Lina Söderström‘s latest work for Volvo‘s Number 10 scholarship fund, created with agency Animal, brilliantly tackles both fields in a [...]
On Wednesday, October 17th, director Malia James screened her new 25-minute film “Blue Lips,” made in collaboration with musician Tove Lo, at the Vista Theater in Los Angeles. The duo took a different approach to creating a film as a showcase for the music from Tove’s latest album – instead [...]
On Friday October 12th, Free The Bid founder Alma Har’el joined director Jenn Nkiru and producer Sharon Oreck on a panel moderated by Tabitha Denholm, director and founder of Women Under The Influence, as a part of the Female Filmmakers Festival (FFFest) in Los Angeles. FFFEST is a 3-day screening [...]
How much is our day-to-day decision-making influenced by unconscious bias, even beyond our own beliefs? Director Lauren Caris Cohan‘s latest work with Stink Films for Uber explores the cultural conditioning that discourages women to imagine themselves in positions of power. In a social experiment set-up, a group of female entrepreneurs [...]
Summer might be over, but we’re here to crank up the heat… To continue the celebration of Free The Bid’s two-year anniversary in September, it’s that time again; welcome to the 4th edition of our Here’s The Work newsletter! This round-up, along with our weekly interviews and daily social media updates, is our way of shining [...]
Free The Bid is delighted to announce our latest global expansion: Dutch director Caroline Koning (HALAL) has signed on as our Free The Bid The Netherlands ambassador! Always being fascinated by the world of images, directing came quite natural to Caroline Koning (HALAL) – who is completely self-taught. With great curiosity, [...]
Brand pledges to Free The Bid for women directors have become an absolute necessity, in order to truly realize Free The Bid’s mission throughout the advertising industry. When a global brand like beverage giant Diageo takes the pledge (as they did in February 2018), it’s exciting to see the wealth [...]