|
Simón Brand (born July 28, 1970) is a Colombian film director. Brand has directed more than 200 T.V. commercials for companies such as Coca-Cola, Coors Light, AT&T, Apple Inc., BMW, and many more. He has also directed a number of music videos, for artists such as Thalia, Juanes, Shakira, Alejandro Fernández, Enrique Iglesias and Ricky Martin, but more recently has started directing films, starting with ''Unknown'' in 2006. In Colombia, his film ''Paraiso Travel'' had the highest attendance for a Colombian film in 2008 with 888,409 viewers.〔Proimágenes en Movimiento, http://www.proimagenescolombia.com/secciones/cine_colombiano/estadisticas/pantalla_colombia_historico.php?numero_pagina=3〕 He currently resides in Los Angeles, California, with his wife Claudia Bahamón, a famous Colombian model and T.V. host, along with their two kids. ==Career== Brand started his career at the young age of sixteen, when he directed his first music video for Colombian band Pasaporte for their song "Igor y Penélope".〔 Two years later, he directed the music video "El Velo" for Colombian group Estados Alterados, which turned out to be the first Colombian artist to be featured on MTV.〔 Soon after, he moved to Miami thanks to a scholarship he got from Music and Video Academic.〔 Hist first job in the United States consisted of recording Voice-overs for phone companies.〔 After graduating with honors, however, Brand founded his own production company called Kree8, with which he has produced most of his commercials and music videos.〔 Before diving completely into filmmaking, he began studying Communication For his first film, ''Unknown'''','' he was able to bring together a cast made up well-known Hollywood actors, such as Jim Caviezel, and Greg Kinnear. The film raised more than US $17 million worldwide.〔 His second feature film ''Paraiso travel'', released in 2008, was the highest-grossing movie in Colombia that year.〔 Time magazine named it as one of the best Latin American movies of the first decade of the century.〔 Margarita Rosa de Francisco, John Leguizamo, and Ana de la Reguera were some of the recognizable Latin American actors that took part of the film. In 2006, ''Variety'' magazine named Simon Brand one of the top 40 most influential Latin Americans in Hollywood. He has been nominated for several awards such as the Grammy Awards (nominated four times), MTV Video Music Award, Clio Awards, and Telly Awards. 〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Simón Brand」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|