Filmmaker and artist Dominic Allen joins Guilty

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DominicFullProfile.jpgGuilty has added multi-award winning filmmaker and artist Dominic Allen to its team.

Allen’s passion for social justice has garnered him the MIFF Emerging Australian Filmmaker award and the Inside Film Rising Talent Prize, not to mention worldwide attention. In his tenure as creative director at Dentsu Aegis Network agencies Isobar and The Storylab, he has created dynamic content and commercials for a diverse range of clients, including Australian Defence Force Recruiting, Holden, Treasury Wine Estates and Maybelline New York.

From the evocative simplicity of his Do Nothing campaign for Save the Children, to the action filled sequences in his Red Bull and Air Force collaboration branded film, Bernie Goes To Bathurst, to the boundless passion and energy in his internationally award winning David Jones clips, Allen’s stories are brimful of colourful smiles, love and hope strewn across the vast, gorgeous plains of a poet’s Australia.

A studious curiosity is the reoccurring, haunting theme in Allen’s short films, documentaries, commercials, branded content and music videos; taking the viewer so close, one is prone to slip under the subjects’ skin. Considering the director’s background in Fine Arts and his Postgraduate thesis on contemporary, political interventionist Art, his innate inquisitiveness in humanity should come as no surprise.

Says Allen: “I’m very excited about working with Guilty. I believe that creatively, we’re on the same page.”

Says Jason Byrne, executive producer, Guilty: “Dom’s talent is evident and his passion for storytelling is refreshing. Couple that with his social conscience and integrity, and you have a filmmaker whose work demands a global audience.”

With a background in fine arts and a passion for social justice, Allen began making films through documentaries about fair trade, migrant issues and indigenous Australian contemporary culture. His work with migrants led him to a partnership with a Sudanese rapper called Bangs that resulted in him directing the viral hit Take You To The Movies (8 million views and counting), while his documentary work with Kimberly Aboriginal youth organisation Yiriman led him to writing and directing the Dendy Best Australian Short film finalist, Two Men, which screened to wide acclaim internationally as well as being instrumental in Dominic winning both the 2009 MIFF Australian Emerging Filmmaker award and the Inside Film Rising Talent Prize.

Allen’s commercial work maintains his commitment to emotive stories, which have people at their center – he aims to compel action through stories told with passion and feeling through a striking visual aesthetic defined by strong composition and allegory.