Jamie Madge
Co-Editor
jmadge@extremereach.com@mrmadge
Jamie Madge co-edits shots with Danny Edwards. He conducts written and filmed interviews with some of the world’s top creatives, directors and producers and bloody loves it.
Nicos Livesey gives Apple some mighty claymation
The BLINKINK director provides the new Mac mini with animated appendages in this character-filled spot from TBWA\Media Arts Lab.
Grow Therapy strengthens through song
KDSP's innovative new campaign for the WORD, directed by John Hillcoat, sees inner monologues expressed through song.
Jean Chapiro finds the message beyond La Mar
After picking up Documentary Gold at this year’s YDA, director behind La Mar tells Jamie Madge how she found the human story inside a climate crisis.
Austin Peters gives Orville Peck movement therapy
In a brilliantly stylised journey through rehab, Peck’s autobiographical track Already Gone sees mundanity fused with musical moments.
Bryan Schlam's driving motivation
In the filmmaker's new music video for Billy Strings' track 10,000 Miles From a Friend, shot through Los York, a truck driver takes a cross-country trek to family.
How Sooyeon Shin found beauty in a bad dream
After picking up Animation Gold at this year’s YDA, South Korean director Sooyeon Shin tells Jamie Madge how a recurring dream, an unresolved childhood memory and hand-drawn textures shaped her deeply personal film, To My Old Nightmare.
Rhian Teasdale turns off the noise with Deutsche Telekom
The Wet Leg frontwoman fights off a barrage of algorithmic backseat drivers in Charlie Engman’s raucous driving film.
Spurs turns the lens on its fans
Directed by former player Alfie Whiteman and narrated by lifelong fan Himesh Patel, Tottenham Til I Die marks the start of the season with a tribute to its community.
Crisis dares to dream
In a gorgeously shot spot for the charity from Peter Thwaites, a boy and his mother find hope in a new home.
Rich Hall calls time on Roy Keane and Micah Richards
The Riff Raff director's new tongue-in-cheek film for Sky Bet demonstrates the football community's struggle with change throughout the ages.
American Haiku's Awful Dreams is the stuff of nightmares
The production company's intentionally unpleasant short mixes a previously shelved performance from John Hurt with gruesome generative AI imagery.
How Tanner K Williams brought Beat Bunny to boiling point
Returning YDA Gold winner (and shots Awards The Americas New Director of the Year) Tanner K Williams tells Jamie Madge how he turned intimacy, pizza and meticulously planned choreography into one of the year’s most talked-about music videos.
Jamie Madge co-edits shots with Danny Edwards. He conducts written and filmed interviews with some of the world’s top creatives, directors and producers, as well as producing extended features on regions, techniques and trends within the advertising community.
He also oversees the compilation of shots' ground-breaking Unsigned, focussing on global unsigned directorial talent, and curates the regular shots Unsigned screening nights that have travelled the globe.
Alongside that, Jamie has presented panels and screening on branded content as part of the D&AD, Raindance, El Ojo and Rushes Soho Shorts festivals, and recently chaired a discussion with Martin Campbell at the Cannes International Festival Of Creativity, so basically met James Bond or something. He has also sat as a judge on many advertising and film awards, including Radar Music Video, the UK MVAs and Reed Short Film. And the shots Awards, natch.
Jamie loves musicals, loves comic books and loves Marmite. He has a lot of love. He also thinks that if you don't like the film Back To The Future, it's difficult to believe you like anything.
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