Alan White

Alan White was born in London, raised and educated in Australia. A winner of Rock Australia Magazine's Writers Contest, he began working as a freelance journalist while still in University. With degree in hand he won an Advertising Federation of Australia Graduate Scholarship and enjoyed a brief career as writing copy for Cole and Levi's, winning a few awards and playing in various underground rock bands. An offer to direct music videos lured the copywriter/musician behind the camera. In the next few years, Alan played director by day and musician by night. Directing videos for bands such as the seminal Hunters and Collectors and garage rock icons the Lime Spiders. At the time, his notorious "Homer Hudson" commercial campaign garnered a Who's Hot article in Rolling Stone, his band, The Faith's album was being showcased in the same issue. Eventually the day job won out. As a director of TV commercials, including high profile campaigns for Expedia, Mitsubishi and Nike, Alan has won every major award worldwide from the Canne Lions to the first Emmy for an outstanding commercial. In Australia he co-founded Black where his work began to attract international attention. Moving to the U.S., Alan became a founding director of @radical.media before partnering in 2005 at the highly regarded creative shop BOB Industries. The new millennium saw Alan direct for the big screen. Followinf hot on the heels of the critically acclaimed Erskinville Kings, starring Hugh Jackman, he directed Claudia Karvan and Bryan Brown to critical success in RISK, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. Alan has just completed his first American feature, Broken, starring Heather Graham, Jeremy Sisto, and Linda Hamilton- a tale of addiction set deep in the LA night- it is due for release in September 2007.