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Danny B. Tull (born 27 February 1977) is an English director and film editor.


Early life

Danny Tull was born in
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, England, and attained a degree in music technology at
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, London, which he attended from 1995 to 1997.


Career

He started editing video at Metropolis Video in London's
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in 1998 working on music videos, documentaries, television, commercial and non-commercial, with directors such as Jonas Akerlund, Chris Cunningham, Johan Renck and editing music videos for artists such as
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,
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,
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,
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and
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. Tull has worked with photographer/directors such as Steven Klein,
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, Mert and Marcus, Terry Richardson and Clive Arrowsmith. In 2012 he worked with
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to edit a short film with
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and Elle magazine called "Havana"; he edited and co-wrote the soundtrack for this. In 2005 he edited the feature film Ragtale and subsequently continued to edit feature length presentations. He has worked with pop singer Madonna for a number of years editing many of her music videos ("
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", " Give It 2 Me", "
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", "
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", "
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", "
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", " Ghosttown", "
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") as well as working on her concert videos: ''
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'' (Editor), ''
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'' (Associate director/editor) and '' MDNA World Tour'' (Director/editor). He also worked on many of the back screen projections for the tours.
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was dubbed as the highest-grossing tour of 2012 by ''Billboard'', and became the tenth highest-grossing tour of all time. For Madonna, he also edited the documentary ''
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'' (2008), the feature film ''
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'' (2011; directed by Madonna) and in 2013, he edited her 17-minute film ''
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''. On 26 July 2012, Tull directed and edited ''Madonna Live at Paris Olympia'' show which was broadcast live on
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. In the summer of 2014, Tull worked with the agency McCann London and director Cristiana Miranda to edit the L'Oréal Elnett Satin hairspray commercial with
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. Produced by Passion Raw and Pos- production by Framestore. On his latest job, Danny flew to
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for the last two shows of ON THE RUN tour (
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and
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) to help vision mix the live show and then to join the team of editors that cut the 2:20 hrs HBO special in only five days. The first of its kind directed by
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and editing headed up by Christian Larson. The show was shot at Stade De France, with over 30 cameras per night.


Awards and nominations

In 2005 he edited the film ''Ragtale'', which won Best Editor in the Jackson Hole film festival and in 2007 he worked on ''Intervention'', which won the best feature in
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. In 2010 the ''I Am Because We Are'' documentary won a "
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Do Something award". His commercials work in 2012 on Perrier's "The Drop" with Johan Renck earned a nomination for a
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Lion award. He also worked on an earlier Gucci commercial in 2009, "Flora by Gucci", with Chris Cuningham which was awarded a Golden Lion at Cannes. In 2009, his work as an editor on
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's "
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" music video with Jonas Akerlund was nominated for Best Video at the
MTV Video Music Awards The MTV Video Music Awards (commonly abbreviated as the VMAs) is an award show presented by the cable channel MTV to honor the best in the music video medium. Originally conceived as an alternative to the Grammy Awards (in the video category ...
and ''The Confessions Tour'' in 2008 won a
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for Best Long Form Music Video.


External links


Official Website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tull, Danny B. 1977 births Living people Mass media people from Bournemouth English directors English film editors Alumni of Rose Bruford College British music video directors Television commercial directors