Smuggler is a film, TV, commercial, music video and theatre production company founded in 2002 by Patrick Milling-Smith and Brian Carmody. It has been awarded 'Production Company of the Year' by several leading commercial industry magazines and award shows over the past few years, including 2010 by Creativity magazine and has been awarded the Palme d'Or three times (including most recently in 2015) at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.
Smuggler works with directors Jaron Albertin, Brian Beletic, Adam Berg, Susanne Bier, Kathryn Bigelow, Michael Clowater, Filip Engstrom, Todd Field, David Frankham, The Guard Brothers, Neil Harris, Christopher Hewitt, Jonah Hill, Tom Hooper, Miles Jay, Barry Jenkins, Randy Krallman, Bennett Miller, Mark Molloy, Joshua Neale, Jamie Rafn, Henry Alex Rubin, Björn Rühmann, Guy Shelmerdine, Chris Smith, StyleWar, Ben Tricklebank, Benji Weinstein, and Ivan Zacharias.
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Commercials
Amongst the commercials Smuggler has created are the "Pretty" advertisement directed by Ivan Zacharias, starring Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova, which won two Gold Cannes Lions in 2007, and the Whopper Freakout Campaign directed by Henry Alex Rubin. Whopper Freakout sparked numerous parodies, won the Cannes Lions Film Gold and Cannes Lions Integrated Lion in 2008, and, as of January 2008, the 71/2 minute video at Whopperfreakout.com has received more than 1.3 million views. Psyop won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Commercial for Coca-Cola's "Heist" in 2009 and Brian Beletic was nominated in the same category in 2010 for Nike's "Human Chain." In 2010, Henry-Alex Rubin's Best Buy Twelpforce campaign won the Titanium Grand Prix. 2011 saw Ringan Ledwidge's Puma commercial "After Hours Athlete" with agency Droga5 win the Cannes Lions Film Craft Grand Prix and the company was awarded its second Cannes Lions Palme d'Or. The Fox NFL commercial "It's Good to Have a Ring" directed by Renny Maslow won a Sports Emmy in 2011. Randy Krallman's Newcastle "If We Made It" featuring Anna Kendrick made the top spot of AdWeek's 10 Best Ads of 2014. Under Armour's integrated effort with Droga5 called "I Will What I Want" and starring Gisele Bundchen won the Cyber Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions in 2015. Most recently, Henry-Alex Rubin's Gatorade "Made in NY" spot featuring Derek Jeter was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Commercial in 2015.
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Music videos
Smuggler has created videos for The Rapture, Swedish House Mafia, Lady Sovereign, TV on the Radio, Gnarls Barkley, The Hives, Franz Ferdinand, Nas, T.I., Juvenile, Kaiser Chiefs, The Black Eyed Peas, Fatboy Slim, Cee-Lo, Jay-Z, and Run the Jewels.
Long form work
Smuggler has created several long form works for Adidas, Officemax, Sony, and the eBay "Let Them Post" campaign. Director Randy Krallman won the Cannes Lions 2009 Film Bronze for "Zack 16."
The Eck? Unltd. viral ad Still Free depicts graffiti artists breaking into Andrews Air Force Base and tagging Air Force One. The internet hoax was released to a few websites. It was later picked up by the internet community, eventually reaching over 17,000 websites. The viral spoof took home the Cannes Cyber Lions 2006 Grand Prix.
Film, theatre, and television
In 2009, Patrick Milling-Smith and Brian Carmody formed a film, television and theater division. Smuggler produced Greetings from Tim Buckley and executive produced Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian starring Benicio Del Toro, Electric Slide starring Jim Sturgess, Chloe Sevigny and Patricia Arquette, and Weightless written by Enda Walsh with a story credit by Jaron Albertin. Upcoming film projects include Beautiful Ruins to be adapted by Todd Field, a remake of cult classic The Wild Geese written by William Monahan, and an adaptation of Jean Anouilh's play Becket written by William Monahan and to be directed by Michael Mann.
In November, 2011, Smuggler produced the play Seminar starring Alan Rickman, which premiered on Broadway and was eventually extended with Jeff Goldblum taking over the lead role.
Smuggler adapted the film Once for the stage. Once was adapted by Enda Walsh and directed by John Tiffany. It premiered at the New York Theatre Workshop on December 6, 2011 and is produced in association with Frederick Zollo and Barbara Broccoli. After a successful run in previews, Once moved to Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre and officially opened on Sunday, March 18, 2012. Once is the fastest recouping musical to hit Broadway in over a decade, recouping its initial $5.5 million investment after only 21 weeks and 169 performances.
Once won the Best Musical Award from The Drama Desk, The Outer Critics' Circle, Drama League, and The New York Drama Critics' Circle. It was nominated for 11 Tony Awards in 2012 and won 8 including Best Musical, Best Direction of a Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Actor in a Musical, Best Orchestrations, Best Scenic Design of a Musical, Best Lighting Design of a Musical, and Best Sound Design of a Musical. On February 10, 2013, Once also took home Best Musical Theater Album at the 55th annual Grammy Awards. The musical toured the US, Toronto, Australia, Korea and London's West End where it was nominated for six Olivier Awards (including Best Musical) in 2014, winning two for Outstanding Achievement in Music and Best Actress for Zrinka Cvite?i?. The Toronto production of Once won Outstanding Production of a Musical, Outstanding Performance - Female, and Outstanding Performance - Ensemble at the 2015 Dora Mavor Moore Awards.
In 2017, Smuggler produced The Kid Stays in the Picture, based on the memoir of the same name by Robert Evans. Adapted and directed by Simon McBurney, the play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London in March, 2017 and focuses on the rise and fall of Robert Evans, former head of Paramount Pictures who produced Love Story, Rosemary's Baby (film), Chinatown (film) and The Godfather.
Awards
- 2015 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival
- 2015 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Musial (Once)
- 2012 Clio Awards Production Company of the Year
- 2012 Drama Desk Award for Best Musical (Once)
- 2012 New York Critic's Circle Award for Best Musical (Once)
- 2012 Drama League Award for Best Musical (Once)
- 2012 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical (Once)
- 2011 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival
- 2011 Puma Social Film Craft Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival
- 2011 Made in New York Award
- 2011 Clio Awards Production Company of the Year
- 2011 BTAA Panalux Award for Joint Production Company of the Year
- 2010 Best Buy Twelpforce Titanium Grand Prix Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival
- 2007 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival
- 2007 Eck? Unltd. - Grand Prix Cyber Lion at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival
- 2007 The Pool - Audience Prize at Sundance Film Festival
- 2007 The Pool - John Cassavetes' Independent Spirit Award
- Internet Campaign - Awards for Editing and Production Design
- 2005 Jane Lloyd - London Film Festivals 'Best Short Film'
- 2002 Boards Magazine - "Breakout Bandit", "Production Company of the Year" Award in 2003 and 2007.
- Creativity magazine - "Production Company of the Year" in 2004, 2007, 2010, and 2017.
References
External links
- Official website
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