We all know that the great British Summer consists of two fine days and thunderstorm, but JJ Keith’s latest creation has us reveling in the irrational hope & expectation of the summer ahead. It’s that time of year when our minds turn to the cooking of meat outdoors. It’s time for the return of the BBQs.

JJ’s tongue in cheek epic sees the summer becoming complete with the return migration of our beloved BBQ. Big, small, disposable, square and cute little shy ones flock in to roost, much to the delight of their owners after a long, cold, lonely winter.

Shot over four days in Switzerland and Cape Town, JJ displays his ability wring emotion and humour from a bizarre situation. His skills of marshaling post production and live action also came to the fore as the BBQ’s are a mixture of mechanical puppeteering and CGI.

It leaves us yearning to hug our families, overcook meat products, and enjoy the long summer days ahead.

Its -23 degrees Celsius and Borkur is knee deep in a snow drift looking at a dead body. A team is around him hanging on his every word and waiting for commands. This is a serious situation and its only the very start of something much bigger.

Borkur is in a helicopter looking down at the almost surreal landscape of Iceland, he’s looking for clues and hints as to how all this begins. Borkur is at the beginning of a 6-month shoot for the hit Icelandic TV crime drama ‘Trapped’. Over the harsh Icelandic winter he will be filming 2 episodes in conditions that would make Bear Grylls turn around and go home.

Trapped garners critical acclaim both in Iceland and the UK – notably a great write up in The Guardian. It’s airing on BBC4 and is fast becoming a must see for fans of intelligent dark drama.

Borkur also creates and films the arresting title sequence for the series. It’s mesmerizing textures of the Icelandic landscape are a fitting opener for the visceral story that unfolds.

https://nordicnoir.tv/news/uk-reactions-to-the-trapped-premiere/

A warm roast dinner welcome to our new resident foodie Richard Jung! Richard joins us with an already impressive catalogue documenting all things delicious. Richard was born with that wondrous ability to create syneasthetic sensations, just watch his spots and tell us if you can’t taste those strawberries.

We are very excited to welcome Gerald McMorrow to our Commercial Directors roster.

Gerald hardly needs any introduction as he is firmly established in the London and European commercials market.

With hugely successful campaigns for Jaguar, Panasonic, AOL, Lloyds, Seat, UEFA, Camelot and Alton Towers already benefitting from his directorial skills he is looking forward to this new chapter in his career.

His commercial work has picked up awards from the Creative Circle, The Green Award and The British Television Advertising Awards.

Gerald is also an established feature film director with the noir fantasy thriller ‘Franklyn’ starring Ryan Phillipe, Eva Green, Bernard Hill and Sam Riley, which gained critical and commercial success.

My Goodness, Olly Goodrum joins Nice Shirt

We at Nice Shirt are very pleased to welcome Olly Goodrum to our Commercials roster

Olly comes from a very successful short film and music video background. His stand out short film “This is Vanity” has been broadcast on Channel 4, shortlisted by BAFTA and highly acclaimed across the world. The self-penned drama has no less that 17 official selections at festivals, 10 nominations for best short and 3 wins. Not Bad!

Olly’s music video for Casual Sunshine’s Consequences of the Kill has been nominated for and won several awards. It’s a dramatic story of a suburban community battling for survival, a skillfully woven narrative with strong poetic visuals.

Olly already has two very accomplished charity commercials on his reel for Samaritans & Macmillan. He’s keen to build on these and take his commercials career into the next phase at Nice Shirt.

Nice Shirt is continuing its 10-year history of scouting for and developing new talent fresh to the London, UK and Word-wide commercials market.

Olly’s impressive knowledge of cinema is reflected in his lovingly curated collection of classic film gifs, available for inspection by appointment only.