Me and My Shadow, the experimental motion capture short film I made with some friends, Centroid and Lighthouse Arts, is now complete. Here it is, you may want to watch it twice.

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A Silly little video we made when we couldn’t sleep

We thought you might want to see who we are, so a few of the crew got together and made this playful video.  It’s a little bit of fun, not a polished piece of work, and most of us have never swapped places to be in front of the camera (some might never do it again!), but at least you can get to see what we look like in our pyjamas. With our teddy bears!

Here is a quick shot from the behind the scenes of a motion capture experimental film I directed at Centroid yesterday. That’s me at the back, directing while watching the pre-vis. Thanks to Lighthouse Arts, Centroid, and my collaborators.

People sometimes ask me if I can direct multi-cam. They usually mean between 3 and 6 cameras.  How about 80+ cameras? That’s how many we used for Me & My Shadow.

My documentary programme for BBC World News, Working Lives: Georgia, which looks at the people, lifestyles, society and economy of the former Soviet republic is currently on air on BBC World News.  It’s the first time I have been credited as producer, director and editor for a broadcast half hour documentary. (Editor is the new one, in case you are confused!)

The programme is likely to be seen by 250 million people, but sadly you can’t get it if you are in the UK.  As soon as I am allowed I’ll publish it on my site.

Wrapped in Georgia – Nadaav, Tom and Alek

I’m just back from a shoot in Georgia (the country) for BBC Working Lives on BBC World News. It’s a documentary about the politics and economics of Georgia through a look at some of the people living and working there. I am producing, directing and editing the 30 min piece.

In 2008 I produced and directed a short documentary in Georgia, USA. Finally I will get to shoot in the other Georgia.  Later this month I’m flying off to Tblisi to produce, direct and edit an episode of Working Lives, a BBC World News documentary series.
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Video of Our 2013 Trafalgar Square Flashmob on YouTube & Facebook

If you like what we do, please support our movie, coming soon. Check out our Crowd Funding page to see the ways you can get involved.

If you’re wondering why it’s all gone a little quiet on this page lately, it’s because I’m over here a lot : www.nadaav.com/soundasleep – that’s the microsite for Sound Asleep – a short film comedy I have written and am directing. It’s the first in a series of Bed Time Stories. I’m also spending a lot of time on Sound Asleep’s facebook page – packed full of photos, videos and fun stuff.

Crowd Funding and Flash Mob

My team and I are doing loads of promotion at the moment, ahead of our imminent crowd funding campaign.  We even led the charge at the massive Trafalgar Square Pillow Fight on Saturday.  According to our facebook, at least 900 of the 1800 pillow fighters came down cos we got them excited about it, but it’s probably a lot more, as we managed to get all the London blogs and listings mags excited too.

And our fast turnaround facebook video has had a reach of 120,000 in its first three hours online.

We’ve just uploaded the YouTube version…

2013 was London’s biggest ever pillow fight and Sound Asleep made it happen

We love flash mobs and wanted to make one so we could bring our film to a bigger audience. Sound Asleep is all about bed time, so we decided on a massive pillow fight, in pyjamas.

You can tag yourself, view loads more and enter our competition on our facebook page.