EMILE RAFAEL
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EMILE RAFAEL

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Director and creative director.
Commercials, automotive films, music videos.

Emile Rafael trained as a cinematographer and graduated from the London Film School before moving into directing. His work runs from car films for Jaguar, Rolls Royce and Audi to commercials for Apple, Sonos, Nike and Gucci, and music videos for MØ, Katy B and Stubborn Heart. He also paints and makes ambient music.

EDUCATION

London Film School, MA in Filmmaking. Trained as a cinematographer before moving into directing.

AUTOMOTIVE

Jaguar, Rolls Royce, Audi, Bentley, BMW, GMC, Cupra, Hyundai, Skoda, Mullen and Battista. Jaguar “Show of Force” was named Best Car Ad of the Month by AdForum.

COMMERCIAL

Apple (iPhone 17, “Make a Move”), Borjomi (“A Force of Nature”, nominated for Best Editing at the ASE Awards), Converse with Isabel Marant, Sonos, Nike, Oppo, Xiaomi, Gucci, Aesop, McDonald’s, Coutts and Mr Porter.

MUSIC VIDEOS

Supermodel (“Seventeen Days” and “Push”), MØ (“Walk This Way”, commissioned by i-D and named Danish Music Video of the Year), Katy B, X Ambassadors, Jamie N Commons, Stubborn Heart, Bastille and Catfish and the Bottlemen.

FILMS AND DOCUMENTARY

Short films for Nowness and portraits of designers, architects and artists, including Frank Gehry, Philipp Starck, Alberto Alessi, Yves Behar, Jasper Conran, Jonathan Anderson, Ian Simpson, Kulapat Yantrasast and Sue Webster.

Also “Alan Moore: His Heavy Heart”, shortlisted for the D&AD Next Director Awards, and “Frank Gehry: Creating Feeling”, a Vimeo Staff Pick.

RECOGNITION

PRESS

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