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American Express, When Inspiration Hits

Rohan Blair-Mangat

Eleanor

Rohan Blair-Mangat • American Express • Dentsu • When Inspiration Hits A waltzing momentum flows from the sweeping movement, lighting, performance, cinematography, and music that animate vivid twin storyworlds. In this visualized exploration of the relationship between creativity and space, American Express holder and Insecure screenwriter Issa Rae is an agent of imaginative transformation. “When Inspiration Hits” furthered Rae’s continued work with American Express on the Backing Change initiative, a movement to support minority-owned small businesses.

Rohan Blair-Mangat's brilliant symphonies of light, color, and movement immerse audiences in imaginative manifestations of brand storytelling. Co-founder of Change the Lens and hero of rich, filmic storytelling, Rohan Blair-Mangat is decorated in a glittering ensemble of gold and silver, including six Cannes Lions and four Clios. Raised in London by a Jamaican mother and an Indian father, Rohan currently resides in LA, developing a slate of narrative projects, including the feature film One Night In Compton with Paramount Players. If Rohan wasn’t an internationally acclaimed director, he may have continued a career as a DJ, playing in London clubs and on Pirate radio.