Monty Whitebloom
Director
Monty Whitebloom’s lush cinematography has gripped audiences in commercials, galleries and movie theatres. The director lent his zeitgeist capturing eye to music videos including Lauryn Hill’s ‘Do-Wop, That Thing’, George...
Monty Whitebloom’s lush cinematography has gripped audiences in commercials, galleries and movie theatres. The director lent his zeitgeist capturing eye to music videos including Lauryn Hill’s ‘Do-Wop, That Thing’, George Micheal and Mary J Blige’s ‘As’ and Macy Gray’s ‘I Try, counts six MTV Music Video Awards eight European Music Video Awards and a Grammy among his accolades.
In recent years Whitebloom has tried his hand at longer projects writing, photographing and directing two episodes of ‘American Anthology’ for Jeffery Katzenberg’s Quibi platform, and premiering his debut feature film, which he also photographed ‘Love is Blind’ in American Theatres, starring Chloe Sevigny, Benjamin Walker, Matthew Broderick, Aidan Turner and Shannon Tarbet last year, 2020.
‘Love is Blind’ was produced by Lucy Barzun Donnelly [‘Friends with Kids’, ‘Grey Gardens’ and ‘Maggie’s Plan’] along with Alexis Alexanian [‘Personal Velocity’, ‘Pieces of April’] and Peter Friedlander [‘Daredevil TV series’, ‘Marco Polo TV series’ and ‘Sense8 TV series’] The movie was written by Jennifer Schurr [‘In Treatment’, ‘Hannibal’ and ‘Big Love’]
Whitebloom wrote, directed and photographed ‘Polabearman’ starring Lee Pace for Al Gore’s Live Earth project.
He also works under the name bigtv in Music Videos and has made work for: George Micheal, Lauryn Hill, Madonna, Macy Gray, Mary j Blige, Maroon 5, Usher, Sinead O’Conner, Spice Girls, All Saints, Leftfield, Biffy Clyro, Chemical Brothers, Happy Mondays, David Gray, INXS, Enigma, Duran Duran, Soul II Soul, Seal, The Beloved, Paula Abdul, Tori Amos, KT Tunstall, Everything but the Girl among many others.
In commercials he has worked for International clients winning Epica, Spirit Campaign, and D&AD awards. His clients include: Mercedes, Mitsubishi, Subaru, Payless, Converse, Levi’s, Nike, Ford, Burger King, McDonalds, Rolling Rock, Sam Adam’s, GM, Lincoln. Adidas, Reebok, Becks, Canon, Lacoste, L’Oreal, Garnier, Volvo, Palace, Guinness, AXA, Eurostar, Peugeot, Halifax, Vodaphone and O2.
He has written and directed short films shown at the London, Tribeca, Toronto, New York, Raindance and Edinburgh film festivals.
He is also a stills photographer who has worked for publications and clients including: British Vogue, H&M, Sears, Kohl, Cutler and Gross, Dazed and Confused, 10, Numero, Pop and Love.
He has a PhD in English History and American Literature.
Contact: Monty directly
Email: montywhitebloom@me.com
Based in: UK & Northern Ireland, Western Europe
Portfolio
Title: ‘How did I get here’
Claritin
Title: 'Boy Girl'
Agency: Llyod & Co
Prod Co: Studio
Calvin Klein
Title: Kiss
Agency: VCCP
Prod Co: bigtvstudio films
Transport for London
Title: Carnival
Agency: FCB
Prod Co: Harvest
Constellation Energy
Title: Coffee Cup Stories
Agency: BCA
Prod Co: bigtvstudio films
British Coffee Association
Title: ‘Tipperary’
Mercedes
Title: ‘What did you say?’
Subaru
Title: ‘I am Ted’
Ted Baker
Title: ‘Dance’
H&M
Title: “Equations’
Constellation Energy
Title: Freedom
Agency: Les Girls Les Boys
Prod Co: bigtstudio films
Les Girls Les Boys
Title: As
Agency: Sony Records
Prod Co: Academy Films
George MIcheal
Title: John Jones
Agency: Quibi
Prod Co: Chimney Group
American Anthology
Title: Ruth Okenowi
Agency: Quibi
Prod Co: Chimney Group
American Anthology
Title: 'Windows'
Agency: FCB
Prod Co: Harvest
Constellation Energy
Title: Love is Blind
Agency: New Regency & Signature
Prod Co: Locomotive
Feature Film -Selected Scenes
Title: Love is Blind
Agency: New Regency & Signature
Prod Co: Locomotive
Feature Film - Selected Scenes - Dialogue
Title: 'Xae'
Agency: LGLB
Prod Co: Studio
Les Girls Les Boys
Title: 'Folu"
Agency: LGLB
Prod Co: Studio
Les Girls Les Boys
Title: 'April'
Agency: LGLB
Prod Co: Studio
Les Girls Les Boys
Title: 'Olly'
Agency: LGLB
Prod Co: Studio
Les Girls Les Boys
Title: 'Freya'
Agency: LGLB
Prod Co: Studio
Les Girls Les Boys
Title: 'Nina'
Agency: LGLB
Prod Co: Studio
Les Girls Les Boys
Title: 'Edd'
Agency: LGLB
Prod Co: Studio
Les Girls Les Boys
Title: 'Launch Summer 2022'
Agency: LGLB
Prod Co: Studio
Les Girls Les Boys
Title: 'Launch Summer 2022' [60]
Agency: LGLB
Prod Co: Studio
Les Girls Les Boys
Title: 'We Know Why'
Agency: Tiempo/BBDO
Prod Co: Hound
