Artistic Director, Film

ToldUntold; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

ToldUntold in London is seeking a director for short-format fashion and luxury films, leading from brief to delivery, shaping treatments, directing shoots, supervising edits and grades, and delivering work ready for brand approval.

Based in our London office, you’ll translate brand codes into compelling moving images, working with account teams and brand partners while managing multiple projects at different stages with calm under production pressure.

Responsibilities

• Own the short formats from treatment to delivery: episodes, product films, the films that open a program.
• Direct shoots, and choose when to bring in outside directors, crews and photographers.
• Supervise edit, sound and colour, and keep a hand on every frame that ships.
• Work directly with the maisons' brand teams, and hold the line between their codes and our formats.
• Keep several films in flight at different stages without letting any of them slip.

Job description

About the role

The studio makes the films the platform runs on: episodes of a few minutes, product films, portraits of craft. They are watched on a phone, standing in a store, between two clients, and they are made for houses with the sharpest eyes for image in the world. Some carry the told: facts, materials, techniques. The best carry the untold, the stories a maison rarely writes down. At that length, nothing spare survives the edit.

This role directs those films from brief to delivery. You take the maison's brief with the account team, shape the treatment, direct the shoot, supervise the edit and the grade, and hand over work a brand team signs without hesitation. The craft of the studio's moving image is yours to set and to keep.

What you will do

• Own the short formats from treatment to delivery: episodes, product films, the films that open a program.


• Direct shoots, and choose when to bring in outside directors, crews and photographers.


• Supervise edit, sound and colour, and keep a hand on every frame that ships.


• Work directly with the maisons' brand teams, and hold the line between their codes and our formats.


• Keep several films in flight at different stages without letting any of them slip.

What we look for

• A body of directed work in fashion, beauty or another image-led field, and a reel that carries it.


• Fluency across the chain: treatment, casting, set, edit, grade.


• Experience with luxury brand teams, and the patience to win an argument about a single frame.


• An instinct for the short form: what holds attention for ninety seconds on a phone.


• Calm under production pressure. Hard weeks happen here; chaotic ones are treated as a planning failure.

Practicalities

Full-time, based in our London office, with three days a week there as the default. The working language is English. Start as soon as you can.