barcelona Jun 2005

Production company European Productions shot the TV and print campaign for "El Corte Inglés" summer 2005 with top Brazilian model Giselle Bündchen and Spanish director Julio Lope Saguar in Isla Morada (Miami). The campaign is currently shown on TV and billboards throughout Spain.

Creative director: Alberto Serrano
Photography director: Jose Pedro Trenas
Steady cam: Jorge Ajero
Photographer: Pepe Botella
Executive producer (El Corte Inglés): Antonio Pastor
Executive producer (European Productions): Adriana Gomez

Last month Nucleo did pictures for the campaign and brochure for the new BLS Cadillac in Barcelona and Girona with its photographer Stephan Jouhoff.

After the work for VW in Argentina, SONDA productions was in Madrid in May working on the new VW Passat campaign. Agency Grabarz und Partner chose Photographer Kai-Uwe Gundlach to give the campaign a new angle.

During May/June, Sonda was the production company chosen to produce a Secret Photo campaign for a tobacco brand in and around Barcelona.

Remembering their shoot for BMW after-sales through Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon with photographer Simon Pushmann, Sonda present this final picture of the campaign.

Latest work:

FashionComm, photographed by Jeffrey Barone
Littlewoods, photographed by Thomas Fiedler
Atelier Torino, photographed by Leif Schmodde
Rolf Benz, photographed by Bernd Opitz
Pierre Laffite (Just Easy brand) with photographer Michael Donath

Currently the SETUP production team is producing the new Luisa Cerano campaign for BSS with Nadja Auermann as Luisa Ceranos' top model.

Barcelona Plató Film Commission has assisted 243 productions so far this year.

Between January and June, the Commission helped process shooting permits for more than 240 productions. Of these, the short film genre stands out with 74 productions, and 50 productions for television. 39 documentaries have also taken place in the city.

Of the 13 feature length films shot in the first half of the year, the most notable include:"Cuento de Navidad", "Cosas Que Pasan", "Adivina Quién Soy", "Cargo", "El triunfo of Mireia Ros" and "Tu vida En 65 minutos".

Latest projects:

Urko Suaya: Dior
Giovanni Gastel: Canali
Nico: Mango, Vogue
Eugenio Recuenco: Carrera y Carrera
Jose Aragon: Hogan, Jaime Mascaro
Txema Yeste: Berska, Collezioni

New photographers at firstfactory:
Nacho Juárez - a Spanish fashion photographer from Barcelona with a unique baroque style. With the aesthetic of some of his photos, you could imagine yourself to be in the middle of some Almodovar scene.
Oscar van de Beek - Dutch photographer who specialises in automotive and landscape photography. Over the years, he has gathered a huge amount of international experience in every respect.
Tom Menz - is from Hamburg, a people photographer who is well-known for his natural beauty shots. A particular focus of his work is his experimentation with light and reflections.
Marc Leclef - a German photographer, living in New York and Germany.

Recent projects from Bela Adler & Salvador Fresneda:

- editorial for GQ, shot in Barcelona

- editorial for Telva, shot in Barcelona

- three editorials for Chic, shot in Vietnam.

- editorial for new Spanish magazine Yo Dona, shot in Girona

Currently in all Loop Vision shops, you can see the campaign shot by Sergi Jasanada with make-up artist Raquel Costales and stylist Helena Oliveras.

Also out: Elio Bernhayer campaign, with Leoni (Francina) as image.

Sergi is in Chile this month shooting the winter campaign for AMICHI.

Latest work includes:

Image photo of XXL for Novedades magazine, Corte Inglés.

Photo special Girls Turquía for MAN magazine.

Photos of Fonsi Nieto and designer of Ermenegildo Zegna.

The new Joan Alsina's & Jorge de la Garza's book was shot at Top Studios.

Jonathan Miller was the photographer for the new Punto Blanco campaign 05 at Top Studios.

June was very busy with Pronovias image campain, shot by Toni Bernard.

Mango image campain was photographed by Nico.

Outumuro came to Top Studios to shoot for Rosa Clará.

The story shown here has just been published in the "neue modemagazine"s 4th issue, shot in Paris.

Nuria did styling, Framn Rezende did hair and make-up, and model was Anja from Karin Models.

Robert just came back from an editorial shoot on Ibiza for x-ray magazine.

Rick Guest put Real Madrid's player Michael Owen "in scene" for British magazine Esquire in Madrid.

Katseys came from Vienna to shoot a campaign for Bulevard Rosa.

They again collaborated with East Photographic for a car ad - this time with photographer Kai Wiechmann for the new Toyota Aygo. Agency was London-based Chi Advertisment.

Simsan are looking forward to the publication of Dimitri Daniloff's beautiful publicity shots for the upcoming "Life Parade", an international campaign for Nike.

Mariano Vivanco (Magna Productions) shot a fashion editorial for El Pais Magazine with model Isabeli Fontana (Traffic).
Leila Mendez (The Lift Productions) shot the campaign for Glorias.
Sergi Pons shot an editorial for El Pais with stylist Buki (Servimatge).
Rafa Gallar shot the recent campaign for Kelme with stylist Beñat Yancy. Agency was Casanova Comunicacion.
Pau Pascual shot the Campaign for Andina. Agency: Comunicacion i Marketing
Markus Rock shot an editorial for Madame.
Pau Pascual shot Gratacos catalogue.
Stephan Ach and his team shot summer Madeleine catalogue.
Jefry Barone shot Adler catalogue. Agency: Fashion Comunications GmBH.

Recent jobs:
Gas Jeans: international campaign by photographer Sergi Pons, agency: Attila & Co. (Milan, Italy)
Soberano: photographer Pedro Vikingo, agency: Sra. Rushmore
Turespaña: Photographer Sara Zorraquino, agency: Publicis España
Lay's: European campaign by photographer Sergi Pons, agency: Tiempo BBDO Barcelona
Cinzano: Photographer Sergi Pons, agency: Sra. Rushmore
Levi's: Catalogue by Alicia Aguilera
Lois: Catalogue Autumn-Winter 05/06, agency: Ipsum Planet

Have a look at the promised images from the latest national campaign in Japan, the new Nissan Serena. In Japan, the images can be seen all over the place: on the tube, magazines, on billboards at Tokyo Dome, even on cinema tickets.

Steffen also went to America to shoot some architecture and reportage in the Mid West.

He is just on the way to shoot another luxury car national campaign for Nissan in the studio.

David Ruiz is about to start shooting the new Suam international campaign and catalogue at Studio Uno.

He's also working on the new cover of Custo's forthcoming New York special Centromoda magazine.

Also, watch out for the new Dockers campaign which David is working on in colloboration with Marketing Com.

Daniel Garriga's most recent work features new Coca-Cola and Modelo Beer advertising campaigns as well as Atlantic Records Reggea Superstar Sean Paul and LR Magazine. He did editorial for EsquireMagazine and recent Sol Beer and Ouidad Hair campaigns.

Juventino Mateo shot the new Danibia collection in his studio in Zurich.

Nina W. Melton did the new beauty campaign for Pyrenees, the large Andorran department store and celebrated the final arrival of the summer 2005 with an editorial.

Flaminia Pelazzi shot a beautiful fashion story with Porky, the famous pig for Mexican fashion magazine Blink.

Txema Yeste shot for the "Abanderado Max" campaign (DDB Barcelona).

Marc Capilla shot the Nice Day winter 2005-06 catalogue.

Alicia Aguilera recently shot for Vogue Novias España.

Now in its second year and described as "the only international festival dedicated to magazine culture", CMYK is a three-day series of activities and events around issues of common interest for the independent publishing sector and its audiences.

There are exhibitions, conferences, round tables and presentations as well as parties and networking spaces for sector professionals to make contact with magazine editors. Special guests have been invited from the UK and  Germany.

CMYK Thursday 21st to Saturday 23rd July.

Group Worldspan, the "live communication agency" with offices in Barcelona, Zurich and UK, offers below-the-line events like product launches and image campaigns.

One of their latest jobs, which demonstrates the wide spectrum that Group Worldspan handles, is the organisation of an Adidas photo shoot in cooperation with German production company Nowadays. As the local producer, Worldspan handled the location, hotel and crew.   
 
In addition, Worldspan worked for brands at the trade fair Bread and Butter which took place in Barcelona last weekend.

Docupolis opens the call for entries of the 5th edition of the International Documentary Festival of Barcelona which takes place at the CCCB. This year, the festival is scheduled from 5-9 October.

This year's awards will be: 
- Docupolis Award for best documentary
- TV3 prize for new documentary authors
- Òpera Prima award for best first documentary: Distribution
- Tercer Ojo Award for best experimental documentary
- Human Rights Award for best documentary
- Best Latin American documentary
- Audience Award

Make-up artist Pilar Lucas (SS&M) is responsible for the beautiful faces of the new Breil campaign. Nieves Alvarez (SS&M) and Andres Velencoso are looking better than ever.

Glamour put their trust in Telma (SS&M) again and presents the new swimwear lines for summer 2005, in an original editorial shot by Rafa Gallar.

Eva Palao, one of SS&M's new faces who is making her mark, was chosen for ELLE Magazine to present the new Custo Barcelona collection. The lucky girl travelled with the team to Cancún. Some fabulous photos were taken due to come out in September's edition of the magazine.

At Salvador, this time it's the little ones turn to shine, having done the latest Lacoste catalogue like real professionals.

As well as doing well in the world of fashion - being the image for big brands like Burberry, Canada etc - they are also shining in advertising via significant brand campaigns such as Nesquik, Renault and Kinder.

There's no doubt that the future careers of these children is assured.

Carolina Clemente: BBVA Bank (photo by Marc Diez) and Ajuntament de Barcelona TV commercial, James Radford: Sanitas TV commercial (directed by Isabel Coixet), BMW, Xibeca Damm and Ajuntament de Barcelona.

Montse Martin: Ambipur, Vanesa Porta: Audi TV commercial (produced byPuente Aereo), Santiago Sorribas: Kinder Germany TV commercial (The Lift Production), Derek Enfedaque: Frigo TV commercial (Miss Wasabi production directed by Isabel Coixet).

Fleming's amazing model Alejandro Cuesta did the Suzuki Vitara worldwide campaign, as well as shooting for Visa Canada.

Montblanc did a show in Barcelona with all models from Fleming.

Caroline Roy did the TV commercial for Nestlé and a Wella campaign in London.

Latest projects include:

US campaign for Mexico cosmetics Maja

Photographer: Yoye

Styling: Elalie

Agency: Playground

Recent work in advertising and editorial has included:
 
Editorial: Absolut, Diva

Advertising: Svenson, producer: Instantanea, photographer: Josephine Douet. BP gas station, producer: Instantanea, photographer: Nacho Urbon.

Jose Sánchez and Toni Espinosa have extensive experience in the automotive world and several years working as mechanics and chauffeurs. Now they have started their own transport, management, filming and photography company so that they can offer their services direct to clients

They have a work/repair shop with 24 hour security that can house many vehicles located on one of the city's main transport routes. They have the equipment and experience to prepare vehicles before, during and after filming and photography, as well as insurances and all necessary up-to-date documentation.

Since its opening a couple of years ago, SHÔKO has put itself firmly on Barcelona's social map.

It has a reputation for beautiful people, great music, its own unique sense of style, and a terrace that goes right out to the beach.

SHÔKO has already started the summer in force, having recently hosted the Campari MTV Red Passion Party with Groove Armada.