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august 14, 2007

paul hunter video nominated for mtv vma

Nominations for the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards were announced early last week, and the Paul Hunter-directed video My Love (Justin Timberlake) walked away with a single nomination: Best Choreography (choreographer: Marty Kudelka. The MTV Video Music Awards are set to air on MTV on Sunday, September 9 at 9pm.
click here for a full list of 2007 MTV Video Music Awards nominees at MTV.com

june 26, 2007

paul hunter wins mvpa award

Paul Hunter won an award at the 16th Annual MVPA (Music Video Production Association) Awards on May 16, for Best Direction of a Male Artist, for his Justin Timberlake video My Love.  The video was also nominated in the Best Choreography category (with the nomination going to choreographer Marty Kudelka).

new commercials for burger king, nike

Paul Hunter has shot a new commercial for Burger King, promoting its new late hours (locations are open 'til Midnight or later).  The clip, entitled "CEO to CEO", stars Sean "P-Diddy" Combs as its new "Late Night Ambassador".  The commercial began airing on June 1.
click here to read press release about the commercial

The official HSI Productions website has also posted a clip for a new Paul Hunter-directed Nike commercial.  The clip, entitled Breath, features a slew of athletes from various sports training (in close proximity to each other) within a futuristic-looking indoor field within an all-black dome.  The premise of the video has the athletes all breathing to a 'beat', quite similar to Paul's 2001 Nike Freestyle commercial.  The commercial features tennis players Rafael Nadal & Roger Federer, basketball players Kobe Bryant & Lebron James, soccer player Ronaldinho, some Kenyan long-distance runners, karate players, among others.  The interesting thing is that the footage of the athletes were all shot separately; none of them actually had any interaction with each other. According to an article in ShootOnline, footage of each athlete was combined in post-production, making for an extremely special-effects-heavy process.
click here to read article at ShootOnline.com; its on page 12 of the PDF file

december 31, 2006 - february 22, 2007

new video clips on hsiproductions.com

HSI Productions re-launched its website with a new layout a few months ago.
The Paul Hunter Commercials section now includes full Quicktime video clips for the following commercials:

• Burger King - Stuff of Legend
• JC Penney - Crazy Beautiful ***a MUST WATCH!***
• Diet Coke - Roller Girl
• HP - iPod Mash Up
• Pepsi - Sumo
• Burger King - Cross The Road (a.k.a. Coq Roq)

The Paul Hunter Music Videos section now includes full Quicktime video clips for the following music videos:

• Justin Timberlake - My Love
• Outkast - Idlewild Blues
• Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl
• Stevie Wonder - What The Fuss
• Snoop Dogg feat. Pharrell  - Drop It Like It's Hot
• Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away
• Marilyn Manson - Dope Show
• D'Angelo - Untitled

2006 year-end review

Hmmm...  Paul Hunter's been a bit low-key in 2006.  But of the 6 or so videos he's done, many have been pretty high-profile.  There's the Mariah Carey & Pharrell Williams video Say Somethin' (shot on-location at the Louis Vutton store in Paris), the Mary J. Blige/U2 collabration of the U2 remake One, and the current smash Justin Timberlake video My Love.  My personal favorite is the Justin Timberlake video (perhaps my favorite video of the year), while my least favorite would have to be Idlewild Blue by Outkast (the video does absolutely nothing for me).  Aside from his video work, Paul Hunter has been pretty busy with his commercial work.  He did several commercials including ones for Burger King, JC Penney, and the heavily-played Diet Coke "Roller Girl" commercial (which may have actually premiered in 2005, but was still going strong thru 2006).  No word on any future projects for 2007.

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