Writer / director Clara Aranovich has a way of delving into the human psyche with a wry talent for storytelling whether it’s for music videos, short films or commercials for Major League Baseball.

Director Taylor Cohen and cinematographer Larkin Sieple team up on this brilliantly creepy film about a troubled, teenage girl who goes to extreme lengths on Twitter to make contact with a famous DJ.

Lief director Savanah Leaf talks about her mini-doc on the rise of a young Italian Trap artist, Priestess, which opened the recent Tribeca Film Festival.

Directing duo Bedroom have been making films together since they were 13. Five years on they have been working with Compulsory on a cracking trio of videos for girl wonder Beabadoobee - still with their regular friends and family as cast, including grandad as the doc.

New York's AICP new director's short list.

Nicco Montanari talks with model Francesco Cuizza about co-directing with LA-based filmmaker JMP on this fashion film for jewellery designer Ugo Cacciatori. Shot in the early hours on a Californian beach, Warrior with a Crown employs movement and original choreography to express how failing should be seen as the fuel for one’s success.

Londoner Tash Tung has evolved her art training and stints as a model / actor into becoming a highly polished filmmaker expressing her narratives with a distinctive and clever filmic language

Headphones on for a roll through AICP's shortlist

Animation, live action narratives or elaborate special effects – Lebanese-American director Najeeb Tarazi is a master of all skills: CGI, editing, writing and directing complex ideas. The director talks about his creative process, his love of collaborating and why he enjoys editing on a Friday or Saturday night while Los Angeles is buzzing

Dougal Wilson, Rupert Sanders, Martin de Thurah, Spike Jonze, Lance Accord, Ben Smith, Errol Morris and Garth Davis - such a familiar line-up of names vie for top spot in AICP Direction shortlist

Californian director Daniel Iglesias Jr's distinctive film language is born out of his talent to write, meticulously pre-vis, shoot, edit and play around with special effects

Vedran Rupic, the Business Club Royale director, talks about how he and his team made this brilliant bonkers Swedish film for Salvatore Ganacci

Rose Hendry takes us on a melodic tracking journey, spinning around and turning into rooms with musical instruments until we finally arrive in a room with the artist Trish Clowes herself. We talk with HLA’s new director about the techniques behind the video for Clowes’ track, Abbott & Costello

AICP’s shortlist of international advertising excellence

No surprises that Nike ads feature big time in AICP single commercials shortlist. Take a look at these cracking ads from Spike Jonze, Kim Gehrig, Lance Acord, Georgia Hudson, Dougal Wilson, Rupert Sanders, Derek Cianfrance, Daniel Lindsay and TJ Martin

This year’s winning entries of Adfest’s Fabulous Five short film competition for young commercial directors are brilliant.

Cyprien Clément-Delmas explores our collective attitude towards pollution and climate change in this film for Paris artist Basile di Manski out of the director’s new creative studio Intrusion.

Big hits and big hitters just keep on rolling

Rolling with the very best

The music is great. The visuals are brilliant. And the messages are parfait

Allie Avital weaves a mesmerising and beautifully shot tale of a woman who accidentally destroys every man she meets

Political, funny, visceral and in-your-face is how choreographer and visual artist Olivia Norris describes Bully Fae’s music and lyrics. It's a description which perfectly echoes this film for his track Sissy Fatigue, made by Norris and her creative collaborators - performers, costume designers, cinematographer and “everyone’s ideas”.

Full marks for this interesting twist to the script and sophisticated crafting of an appeal film for blood cancer research

Inspired by Fred Rowson’s work as a writer and director on Years & Years' Palo Santo album campaign last year, giffgaff head of advertising Abi Pearl Ward asked the Blink director to create a consistent fictional universe, full of recurring characters and detail, all interwoven between TV, print, outdoor and digital. The result, with reference to our current climate, is a celebration of democracy and freedom of choice

We talk with Skunk director Ben Strebel about his creative process for his latest music video, Wasted, for new band The Hour. Strebel explores the liberating behaviour of a group who live in a world of established anonymity and like to play dangerously

Three favourite ads from Adfest in Pattaya that scooped up in the Film Craft category

The most magnificent role model for every female filmmaker has passed away. With love, we show again Agnès Varda’s film for Miu Miu which we published two years ago in a female-directed showcase of stories about gritty, independent, head-strong, beautiful, witty females - which perfectly sums her up. Still making movies last year at 90 we will miss her wit, warmth and wisdom dearly.

Halal director and previous KesselsKramer creative director Johan Kramer has been spinning facts and fiction and now ping pong balls throughout his filmmaking career. We catch up with the director and talk about the fine line between documentary and fiction and looking for the most original way of telling a story

Without dialogue, set in one location, and with a runtime of almost five minutes, New Land director Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen returns to commercials with the almost greatest love story ever told for shoe brand Bianco. Two people fall in love with each other without the other ever knowing. The only thing that keeps them apart is their overthinking. We talk with the director about longer format narratives for advertising, and the benefits of taking a two-year break from commercials to shoot tv series and short films. Oh he forgot mention The Lift has already clocked up over 10million views across social media and reposts.