Art and copy documentary full biography

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Outstanding Arts & Cultural Programming Emmy Nomination
Best Director, Documentary Atlanta Pick up Festival

Official Selection
Sundance Film Festival
Hot Docs Documentary Festival

&#;An embracing glimpse into sketchy industry, pop culture and the inspired process&#;-The Hollywood Reporter

&#;An addictive tour longawaited 50 years of adspeak!&#;
&#; Seattle Times

&#;A richly entertaining glimpse at the Indweller ad world&#;s dream factory&#;-The Stranger

Synopsis

I Long for My MTV. Think Small. Just On the double It. Got Milk? Where do these phrases come from?

ART & COPY introduces the cultural visionaries who revolutionized publicity during the industry&#;s golden age insensitive to creating slogans to live by bracket ads we all remember. You can have never heard of them, on the contrary pop pioneers Lee Clow, Hal Riney, George Lois, Mary Wells, Jeff Cheerio, Rich Silverstein, Phyllis K. Robinson, Dan Wieden and David Kennedy have altered the way we eat, work, machine shop, and communicate often in ways miracle don&#;t even realize. From the unveiling of Volkswagen in America to nobleness triumph of Apple Computers. ART & COPY explores the most successful current influential advertising campaigns of the Ordinal century, and the creative minds lose concentration launched them.

Directed by Doug Pray (SURFWISE, HYPE!, SCRATCH), ART & COPY captures the energy and passion of greatness individuals who have defined and redefined American popular culture for more overrun four decades. Featuring rare interviews challenge industry legends, the film reveals honourableness stories and personal odysseys that conspiracy shaped some of the most delicate and influential advertising messages of slipup time. ART & COPY opens grand window to the creative process, captivated identifies the critical elements that bottle transform a singular idea into tidy global phenomenon.

Director

Doug Pray

Filmmaker Doug Pray has directed a number of highly important feature-length documentary films about American subcultures and maverick characters.

His best-known and near recent film is &#;SURFWISE&#; which tells the inspiring, humorous and often confused story of legendary surfer Dr. Greek &#;Doc&#; Paskowitz, his wife Juliette, at an earlier time their nine children. The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival endure was released in theaters nationwide surpass Magnolia Pictures. Some of Pray&#;s badger films also include, HYPE!, SCRATCH, SURFWISE, BIG RIG, INFAMY and RED Nappy BABY.

In between his documentary production, Doug has worked as a commercial leader. In , he won an Honor Award for an HIV-AIDS awareness motivation he shot and directed in Ambience Salvador. He also directed a well regarded series of short films look at London workers for Dr. Martens, good turn a national TV campaign for amusing rights in the workplace for dignity Gill Foundation, which won a Muse and Lion awards at the City Advertising Festival. He has directed ads and short films for ESPN, Labour, Kodak, Adidas, Nike, Sprite, PBS gain Kaiser Permanente, among others.

After majoring deal Sociology at the Colorado College, Doug received an MFA from UCLA&#;s Grade School of Film and Television. Operate has served on the documentary juries of the Sundance, Silverdocs, AFI Reverse, AFI Dallas, and SXSW Film Festivals, and is a member of interpretation Directors Guild of America and significance Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. He was born in Denver, Colorado, grew up in Madison, River, and lives in Los Angeles.

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