By Martina Goodman July 6th, 2018 The second annual Diversity in Marketing (DIMA) summit took place in London this month at BBC Broadcasting House. A panel of top brand and agency leaders, entrepreneurs and creatives from across media and marketing came together to compile a list of 50 men...
July 9th, 2018 We are happy to announce the final results of the call “If I only knew!” for PosteMobile. PosteMobile asked you to create engaging, creative, disruptive videos which are able to incorporate the theme of discovering an opportunity and taking it on the fly, but also with...
By Martina Goodman June 25th, 2018 Last week Kevin Systrom, Instagram’s CEO made two big announcements- firstly that their app now has 1 billion users, and secondly the arrival of IGTV- Instagram’s new feature of smartphone long form video- exclusively in a vertical format. In 2013 Instagram allowed us...
By Martina Goodman Paris, 13th May 2018 Last month Userfarm attended the Brand Experience Awards in Paris, and we were very excited to receive two medals- one gold medal (Golden Player) in the Business Model category with the Social Media Pack and one a Silver Player for a campaign...
I am pleased to introduce the next filmmaker of the month and one of the selected filmmakers for the Nespresso Talents 2018 USA contest, Sofia Garza-Barba. Firstly, many thanks for taking your time to do this interview. Thank you!! What projects have you been doing as a filmmaker?...
Worldwide Partners Inc, global network of Independent agencies with 65 agencies in more than 40 countries, partners with TOP VIDEO TALENTS, one of the largest global video crowdsourcing platform built with Userfarm. PARIS, May 24th, 2018. Worldwide Partners, Inc., one of the largest networks of independent advertising and...
Userfarm, for the third consecutive year, is proud to announce that the Nespresso Talents 2018 is coming to an end, with the last short films to be selected in these days for Mexico, Spain and the Czech Republic. A massive thanks to the 1.800 filmmakers who participated for all the stunning...
Hello Grant, many thanks for your time for this interview, may I ask what are you doing at this moment as a filmmaker? I work as a full time time director and by default producer and really at this stage I do everything. From developing feature films and TV...
We are very proud to announce that our fimmmaker Mariana Azcárate. won the Silver award for “Best Foreign Language film” with her short film “Bicho“, produced for Userfarm‘s vertical video project Nespresso Talents 2017. This adds to the global success of this film and the Nespresso Talents project. Bicho was already selected as overall top video...
We are pretty sure that as soon as you see the title, a particular lyric – and a tune – comes to your mind immediately – the hit song “Havana” featuring Young Thug by Camila Cabello. But … why are we talking about this? Maybe because of the new...
Hi Arthur! Could you please tell us a bit about yourself? Hi! I’m 29. I am a film director. I grew up in Chamonix in the mountains in France. I now live in Lyon, where cinema was born. I have had quite a broad professional journey, but a lucky...
Userfarm London was among a select group of creative technology companies showcased by the UK department of Trade at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. The famous event, which also includes festivals for Film and Games and a huge Music festival, is one of the...
Who is Scirocco? How would you describe yourself as a filmmaker? My real name is Marcello Di Noto and… yes I do consider myself a director and a screenwriter… a filmmaker in one word. I founded “Scirocco Cinematografica” about 15 years ago. A production group for shooting short video...
#TodayIsTheDay: that’s the spark for our amazing project to celebrate International Women’s Day. Produced for ActionAid with sponsorship from Rosato jewellery, the films say Today is the day to say NO to violence against women. The powerful videos from our crowd ask all men and women to take a minute to think...
The new Lipton campaign, developed through a video crowdsourcing process, introduces Unilever to a new way of reaching their consumers. For the launch of the Lipton’s new Herbal/Tisane Tea, Userfarm’s crowd of filmmakers worked for one of the most iconic brands of the Unilever Group. Though a Premium Call – a...
Nespresso Talents is the pioneering global VERTICAL video contest, which is transforming the vertical video format into an accepted art form. Already the top videos from Nespresso Talents are showcased during top film festivals like Cannes, Tribeca and Morelia. They have also received recognition elsewhere, earning a Gold medal...
Hi Mariana, how are things? Really well thanks… am very happy to be selected as the filmmaker of the month by Userfarm. Thanks for this interview. Regarding your filmmaker career…at what stage do you think you are? I made a short feature film in December and I am...
Hello Userfarmers, Would you like to share the experience of the selected filmmaker from the Nespresso Talents 2017? Discover the responses to this vertical film contest and watch their masterpieces! Would you like to be showcased in Cannes in this year’s Nespresso Talents 2018? Click here to find...
If you’re an emerging filmmaker with a passion for meaningful stories and mobile-friendly shorts, then get your work in to Nespresso’s annual contest for your chance to make it to the French Riviera. Coffee might wake the world up, but Nespresso is determined to make the world sit up...
Tell me more about daskydesign? Dasky (Giuliano Grimaldi). I’m an Italian freelancer and I have been working in an advertising agency for about 15 years. I have worked for several big agencies, both as an employee and as a freelancer. How would you describe yourself as a filmmaker? First...
We have just closed our most recent challenge from the global tech company, Lenovo. The brand chose the Userfarm to celebrate the 25th anniversary of an iconic brand and product, the ThinkPad. Lenovo believes that ThinkPad gives the chance to a lot of special people around the world to...
What led you to filmmaking? Can you tell us a bit about your journey? With our collective L’Edifice, we all went through very different creative paths before ending in the film Industry. Pierre started with rap music, Leila with photography and Juliette was a musician. But I think...
Userfarm was credited in the Creativepool article revealing the upcoming Ad Trends of 2018. Jeffrey Lee, CMO at Userfarm quoted: “Vertical doesn’t just mean turning your camera on its side. People now see the world through a vertical frame and all visual arts have to adapt to this reality....
When and why did you decide to become a filmmaker? After I finished high school I discovered cult movies and I decided that I wanted to be a filmmaker. In my opinion, filmmaking is the most expressive form of art and I really love this profession. We know...
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By Martina Goodman June 25th, 2018 Last week Kevin Systrom, Instagram’s CEO made two big announcements- firstly that their app now has 1 billion users, and secondly the arrival...
Userfarm, for the third consecutive year, is proud to announce that the Nespresso Talents 2018 is coming to an end, with the last short films to be selected in these days...
We are pretty sure that as soon as you see the title, a particular lyric – and a tune – comes to your mind immediately – the hit song...
Filmmaking
July 9th, 2018 We are happy to announce the final results of the call “If I only knew!” for PosteMobile. PosteMobile asked you to create engaging, creative, disruptive videos...
I am pleased to introduce the next filmmaker of the month and one of the selected filmmakers for the Nespresso Talents 2018 USA contest, Sofia Garza-Barba. Firstly, many thanks...
We are happy to announce the final results of the call “Crazy about the challenge” for SISAL. SISAL asked you to create engaging, creative, fun videos for the EuroJackPot...
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By Martina Goodman Paris, 13th May 2018 Last month Userfarm attended the Brand Experience Awards in Paris, and we were very excited to receive two medals- one gold medal...
Worldwide Partners Inc, global network of Independent agencies with 65 agencies in more than 40 countries, partners with TOP VIDEO TALENTS, one of the largest global video crowdsourcing platform...
Userfarm London was among a select group of creative technology companies showcased by the UK department of Trade at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas....