Benjamin Millepied
Benjamin Millepied is a director, choreographer, and a producer born in Bordaux, Gironde, France. In 2010, Millepied choreographed and starred in the Oscar winning feature Black Swan.
Since then, he has directed a number of short films, commercials, and music videos in collaboration with artists including Philip Glass, Mark Bradford, IO Echo, Lil Buck, and Zeds Dead. Most recently, Millepied directed a short film for luxury jewelry brand Van Cleef and Arpels based on his original choreography entitled Reflections. In 2012, Millepied founded The Amoveo Company, a multi-media production company and art collective based in Los Angeles.
Though Millepied haven't directed or choreographed that many cinematic films, Black Swan was one of my favorite dance films nevertheless. Everything, ranging from the camera angles, lighting, close up shots of the protagonist's facial expression, and unto the costume.
Though his choreography are beautiful and his camera techniques are beautiful and fascinating, the fact that the protagonist is always on the verge of insanity keeps the audience at the end of their seat, anticipating at what would happen next during the beautiful performance.
The makeup choice also conveys the character the dance is being performed perfectly as well.
Scott Speer
Speer was born in San Diego, California. At age 23, he was signed with HSI Productions, and in 2006 Speer received the MVPA Award for Directorial Debut of the Yearfor the music video of "Stars" by Switchfoot.
In 2007 he won his first MTV Video Music Awards Latin America in México, for his work with "Bella Traicion" by the Mexican pop sensation Belinda. In June 2007, he directed a three-part video series for Ashley Tisdale. These videos included "He Said She Said", "Not Like That" and "Suddenly" released on her DVD There's Something About Ashley. In 2009, he again directed music videos for Tisdale for "It's Alright, It's OK" and "Crank It Up" from her album Guilty Pleasure. He also had an on-and-off relationship with Tisdale from 2009–2012.
In addition to directing, Speer produced and second unit directed the feature film The Beat, an official selection of the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, and remains deeply involved in independent films. In 2010 Scott directed The LXD episode "Duet".
Speer directed Step Up Revolution (2012), his feature film directing debut.
In April 2012, Speer released a young adult novel called Immortal City, about a world in which celebrity culture revolves around supernatural beings, specifically guardian angels.
In April 2013, Speer released a book called Natural Born Angel. He is currently in the process of writing the third and final volume of the Immortal City trilogy
One of Speer's many remarkable scenes from his film: Step Up Revolution is the art museum scenes. There are many dance films that only centers around dance itself, but this scene, not only does it showcase amazing body movements that sometimes reminds me of heartbeats and life in general, but he does an amazing job blending and combining dance with visual arts and cinematography through his use of life, costume, setting, composition, color tone, makeup, and more.
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