Flying High, Longlist - Fashion

Sunny's Quest for a Simple Life

Marie Schuller

Black Dog Films

'Flights of Fantasy' the Summer 2023 collection, from Orlebar Brown is built around the ideas of fanciful and unexpected. A place of make-believe, imagination, dreaming. Its carefree, romantic, pioneering, encouraging people to reinvent where they go and who they are, to get out of their heads and into their hearts. The campaign film, ‘Sunny’s Quest for a Simple Life’ is the latest in a long award-winning film and photography collaboration with RSA Films’ Marie Schuller.

Marie Schuller is a director and photographer based in London. Specialising mainly in fashion and beauty advertising, Marie has directed campaigns for Valentino, Givenchy, Armani and YSL amongst others and has been awarded at numerous international festivals including the Webby Awards, ASVOFF, FFF Milano, AFFA, Fashion Film Festival Chicago, Transylvania Short Film Festival, Santiago de Chile Fashion Film Festival, and The Books Creative Awards, leading to a retrospective screening at the San Sebastian Fashion Film Festival. Marie initially studied filmmaking at the National Film and Television School before completing her MA in Photography at the University of the Arts London. She worked for five years as Head of Fashion Film at Nick Knight’s renowned SHOWstudio before embarking on her own directing career. Her photography work has since featured on the covers of Numero, Vogue, King Kong, L’Officiel, and Elle amongst others.