
Hailed by Creative Review as the next Gondry, Daniel Levi has directed music videos for the likes of Massive Attack, Interpol, Prodigy, The Concretes and more. Since graduating with honors in painting from Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town in 1995, Daniel has worked in art and film, having focused primarily on commercial direction for the last eight years in London with Independent Films and in America with Anonymous Films over the last seven years and more recently to Velocity in South Africa where he is based.
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Featured on the Saatchi & Saatchi New Director’s Showcase at Cannes 2002. (FR)
Best New Director award at Kinsale 2002. (UK)
Runner up Best New Director at D&AD 2002. (UK)
D&AD Award for “Best Individual work” 2002 (UK)
Runner up Best New Director at First Boards 2003. (UK)
Massive Attack “Butterfly Caught” – Promo of the Month, Promo Magazine, Aug 2003 (UK)
LFO “Freak” – Promo of the Month, Promo Magazine, Oct 2003 (UK)
Best Director – Dogstar Awards 2003 (South Africa)
Best New International Director for X Box “Senses” – Dogstar Awards 2003 (SA)
Best Overall Commercial for Metro FM “Beat” – Dogstar Awards 2003 (SA)
Gold for – Mercedes “Cat” – VDW producer awards 2003 (GERMANY)
The Music Video Award (MVPA) (USA) for Best New Director. 2004 (USA)
Clio Award for LFO ‘Freak’ music video 2004 (UK)
Sony Music video Award, Interpol ‘Slow Hands’ 2005. (USA)
Plan B – Promo of the Month, Promo Magazine, Dec 2005 (UK)
The Concretes ‘On the Radio’ Promo of the Month, Promo Magazine, March 2006 (UK)
Best Urban Video – Plan B – CADS 2006 (UK)
Runner Up Best Director – CADS 2006 (UK)
D&AD Yellow Pencil for BBC “Meat” 2008 (UK)
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