The Producers director Olivier Staub shows that powerfully distinctive work crosses every genre
The Producers director, Olivier Staub, creates work that gets noticed. An inventive director, he has an intuitive flair for presenting the strikingly different point of view and creating triggers for emotion. He translates scripts into visuals are beautiful and stories that are exhilarating, shocking, delightful…and above all, memorable.
For Cossette Quebec and Government of Quebec MSSS he told a surreal story of Kubrickian proportions about isolation and solitude, using the poetic device of being slanted to illustrate a life that is off-kilter. To encourage vaccinations during the pandemic, he wove together drama with comedy and playfulness – a series of children defiantly scaring Covid – underlined by ultra-slow motion and an orchestral soundtrack by Paul-Etienne Cote. For Centraide, he told a story about poverty and exclusion, not with miserabilism but with hopefulness and a literal translation of elevation.
For Canadian agency, Lg2 and SAAQ (Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec)’s appeal to stop mobile phone use while driving, Staub created intense horror through bold repetition and eerie stillness. It demands attention through the repetition of an accident. Through seeing the driver filming the accident. Through the eerie stillness of the accident that stays with the viewer. And to loop of accidents into infinity, he used a mix of photography, CGI, traditional retouching, composition, and 3D mapping. The extraordinary performances, though, were captured in camera.
Says Olivier Staub: “We cast amazing stunt performers who took strong bounces on a small trampoline to project themselves and crash into a plexiglass.
In the end it became a powerful and an intriguing cinematic piece, standing in a very unusual territory of its own. The sound design carved the final but essential layer of drama.”
Staub also has what many directors only aspire to, genre-defying versatility and the ability to create great work under pressure. His work ranges from daring and provocative to touching and elevating. It is always ambitious. It has never failed to stand out.
He has won at international festivals such as Cannes Lions, D&AD, New York Festivals, ADC, Kinsale and The Andys, as well as local and publication awards throughout the world. He has been features in Luërzer’s Archive many times.
Says Noelle Jones, executive producer, The Producers, “I can’t speak more highly of Olivier as an amazing director and incredible human. Every project he touches turns to gold. He is a great collaborator who produces beautifully crafted and well-considered work that has won him, deservedly, international recognition.”
Says Olivier Staub: “It’s a crazy, reckless kind of love I have, but one that can be depended on to make beautiful commercials that deliver.”
For enquiries, contact Noelle Jones, +61 488 076 556 or by email.
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