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We offer our clients a variety of local and international live action and VFX directors who are available to work on projects anywhere in the world. Please get in touch if you are looking for someone with a specific skill as this is something we can assist you with through our network of global contacts.

DUNCAN ROBSON
The founder of The Network, Duncan Robson began his career as a film editor in London. Worked extensively in post throughout Europe. Now active as a director for over ten years, on commercials, documentaries, a short feature film and theatre. His diverse experience in every aspect of film making. affording a comprehensive understanding of the creative and technical possibilities of film. Extensively travelled, with a broad range of interests - diving, keelboat racing, photography, philosophy and many more Duncan has a truly encyclopedic understanding of film and commercials. Duncan has shot for various clients including Mobily, Henkel, Nestle, P&G, Seat, Kadu, Triumph and Jaguar. [ view show reel]

RAGNAR AGNARSSON
Born in Reykjavik Iceland, Ragnar Agnarsson started working in the film business in the late 80's. He is self-educated and has worked in every department in the film business. He quickly established himself as one of the most promising Icelandic cinematographers, working internationally with some of the best directors in Scandinavia. Ragnar spent two years in Los Angeles where he worked as a freelance director of photography. When back in Iceland in 1999, he focused his career on directing and is now recognized as a highly productive and visual director.
Ragnar has directed commercials for companies such as Spron Bank, Baugur Group, Nissan, Subaru, Mitsubishi Pajero and Toyota. [ view show reel]

AXEL BAUR
Born in Germany, Axel has lived in Hamburg, San Francisco, Frankfurt, Prague and is now based in Berlin. In the late 80s Axel worked as a freelance tv cameraman, and in the early 90s as a freelance producer for commercials and music videos, which included an AIDS commercial directed by Emir Kusturica. Axel has been working as a commercials director since 1998 for a wide variety of global clients which include Braun, Arcor, Subaru, Kotex, Veet, Escada and Vodafone. [ view show reel]

VOODOO – MATTHEW DESMOND-SMITH & SAM HENCHER
Matthew and Sam collectively have 34 years experience in the high end commercials and film industry, including work for Framestore, the Mill, Paramount Pictures and a host of local and international agencies and Production companies. Both are award winning Visual Effects Artists, and pride themselves on close working relationships with Agencies and Production through all facets of production. They specialize in high-end visual effects for commercials, using Flame Online, Maya 3d CG and a host of other up to date Visual Effects software. They do storyboards, concept art and Matthew is an accredited Previsualisation artist, bringing his 3d skills to the Production table to help plan and execute shoots with a lot of integrated visual effects.

They have produced VFX work for a variety of clients including Nissan, Motorolla, Sony, Shell, Coca Cola, Honda, BMW, Hyundai and Chinese News Graphics.
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