SKINNY is a directing team based in
Los Angeles that specializes in
commercials
A television advertisement (also called a television commercial, TV commercial, commercial, spot, television spot, TV spot, advert, television advert, TV advert, television ad, TV ad or simply an ad) is a span of television programming produce ...
and
music videos. It is composed of
David Hache and
Marc-Edouard Leon. In 2008, SKINNY signed to the acclaimed music video and commercial production company
Partizan Partizan may refer to:
Sport
* JSD Partizan, a sports society from Belgrade, Serbia, which includes the following clubs:
** AK Partizan, athletics
**Biciklistički Klub Partizan, cycling
**Džudo Klub Partizan, judo
** FK Partizan, association fo ...
.
Media attention
SKINNY's music video for
Devendra Banhart's song "Carmensita" garnered a lot of public attention thanks to the presence of actors
Natalie Portman,
Kat Dennings and
Lukas Haas. In particular, news that Devendra Banhart and Natalie Portman began dating after meeting on the set of the video was reported in the tabloids. The music video, which pays homage to
Bollywood films and TV shows of the 1960s and 1970s based on ancient
Indian epics of
Mahabharata and
Ramayana, has since become one of the most celebrated videos of 2008. It was featured in ''
The Guardian'',
MTV
MTV (Originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable channel that launched on August 1, 1981. Based in New York City, it serves as the flagship property of the MTV Entertainment Group, part of Paramount Media Networks, a di ...
,
''Subterranean'', ''
Time Magazine'', ''
NME'', ''
Rolling Stone'', ''
People Magazine'',
Perez Hilton and
E! Moreover,
''Spin Magazine'' voted the video the 10th Best Video of 2008 and MTV's indie rock music video show
''Subterranean'' included it in its Top 15 of 2008.
References
External links
SKINNY web page at Partizan
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American film directors