Izabela Frank

I produced the World Cup “Impossible Is Nothing” global campaign for adidas, centered around the “Family Reunion” spot and teasers which were shot internationally with some of football's biggest stars, over six weeks. It was an epic undertaking. Many thanks to the hundreds of people around the world who helped make this happen!

This is adidas' most-watched World Cup campaign EVER!

*ADC Shortlist (Motion: Film Craft)

*ONE SHOW Shortlist (Sound Mixing)

*SHOTS CREATIVE Shortlist (Sound Design)

*AICAPAwards Shortlist (Sound Design: 60 and under)

*AdAge Finalist Editorial Company (Cabin)

*SHOTS Editing House of the Year (Cabin)

*ADC Production Company of the Year (Smuggler)

*Clio Awards Production Company of the Year (Smuggler)

A: Fresh Juice/TBWA Neboko | D: Nina Holmgren | P: Smuggler | C: adidas

This campaign had nearly 400 deliverables, but there were so many sub-deliverables too, bespoke props, artwork, wallpaper, bobble heads, NFT integrations, unaired Rick & Morty spots, a handmade Messi vs. Messi foosball table, etc. Many were brought to the actual World Cup. Here are just a few visuals to give you an idea of the scope.

I produced this campaign for Palo Alto Networks, a giant in the cybersecurity space. We shot with the delightful Gillian Anderson in London.

A: TBWA/Chiat/Day, LA | D: Adam Berg | P: Smuggler | C: Palo Alto Networks Worldwide

I produced this short film about artist James Turrell, directed by Jessica Yu (Oscar winner), and shot at Roden Crater (an unforgettable experience!). The film screened at LACMA’s ART+FILM gala and then played at several festivals including: Los Angeles, Providence, Napa, and DOCNYC.

D: Jessica Yu | P: 23/7, Inc. | C: Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art

One of 8 Tik Tok for business ads I line and post produced. This one features Pholk, a fabulous, female-black-owned, vegan skincare line.

D: Warner Shaw | P: Be Grizzlee | A: TBWA/Chiat/Day LA | C: Tik Tok

One of 8 Tik Tok for business spots I line and post produced. This one features Dana, owner of Dana’s Bakery in NJ, famous for the “Mookie” a macaroon baked inside a cookie. Yes, you want one. . .

D: Warner Shaw | P: Be Grizzlee | A: TBWA/Chiat/Day LA | C: Tik Tok

One of 8 Tik Tok for business ads I line and post produced. This one features Diop, an African-inspired clothing line.

D: Warner Shaw | P: Be Grizzlee | A: TBWA/Chiat/Day LA | C: Tik Tok

I produced this first-ever crowdsourced film made entirely of Vines, directed by Miles Jay via Twitter.  I really loved working with B-reel and Mullen.  When we contemplated what should be written on the fortune cookie message, as we didn't want to limit the film's global reach by writing in English, I suggested an infinity symbol, and it stuck.  We're all quite happy with how the film turned out.

D: Miles Jay | P: B-reel | A: Mullen | C: Airbnb

I post produced this integrated video, a simulcast to Kim Kardashian's T-mobile Super Bowl TV spot, where she treats viewers who log-in via Twitter, to a video that shows her Tweeting THEM.  They actually see KK selecting their Twitter name from a drop down menu of their friends, to send them a special "something" - a selfie, of course.  If you'd like to try it for yourself, it may still be live at: www.kimsdatastash.com.  Thousands of servers are standing by to handle the millions of expected viewers . . .

Senior Digital Producer, Norma Kwée is a genius, and the other Tools are pretty great too.

Live Action: Paul Hunter, Prettybird | Post/Digital: Tool of North America | Digital Agency: Big Fuel | Client: T-Mobile

I produced this pro-bono PSA for President Barack Obama's "My Brother's Keeper" initiative, which seeks to engage mentors for disadvantaged boys of color. It aired during the MTV Movie Awards and was positively reviewed on Huffington Post.

D: Marcus A. Clarke | P: Mass Appeal | A: Matter Unlimited | C: My Brother’s Keeper

My favorite of 11 short films I produced in post on a dime and in a hurry for Fusion + Summit + Mass Appeal. The others feature: Norman Lear + will.i.am, Erin Brockovich, Bob Pittman, LeVar Burton, Chris Blackwell + Perry Farrell, Baratunde Thurston, Patrisse Cullors, Beau Willimon, Allen Stone, Shep Gordon + Jake Udell. To see them, go here.

D: Dan Levin & Marcus A. Clarke | P: Mass Appeal | C: Summit + Fusion

Black Lives Matter Co-Founder, Patrisse Cullors talks about social activism.

D: Dan Levin & Marcus A. Clarke | P: Mass Appeal | C: Summit + Fusion

This was a lot to get done in one house, on one day, but we did it! What a great team! Thanks everyone!

D: The Selby | A: Dokyo, Hamburg | C: Lipton

I post-produced this spot which included extensive VFX work and down to the wire music negotiations. Loved working with the teams at Tool and ESPN.

D: Shawn Z | P: Tool of North America | A: ESPN | C: ESPN & AT&T

I post produced this national spot, directed by Eduardo Cintron for the NBA.

D: Eduardo Cintron | P: Mass Appeal | A & C: NBA

I post produced this bronze Clio award-winning spot for the directing team of JEAN, edited by the most awesome, Jonah Oskow for Decon.

D: JEAN | P: Decon | C: Lifetime

I post produced the second season of Pub in Pub for Facebook/Instagram. The trailer for the series is shown here. The whole series can be viewed here: https://www.facebook.com/business/news/complete-pub-in-pub-season-2 .

In the second season of Pub in Pub, we talk to advertising gurus, engineers and artists who have found success on Instagram. Join us as we chat with each of them over beers to discuss how they use Instagram as a publishing platform for brands-from clever views of household objects, to 3D animation, to using the API to bring photos to life.

D: Marcus A. Clarke | P: Decon | C: Facebook

I produced this film for Coach.  It was my first project with The Selby and when he wrapped out of our first location by our projected start time, I knew we were meant to make movies together. The Selby got a Coach bag out of it.  Me? Still waiting . . . but they were nice to look at.

D: The Selby | C: Coach

One of ten spots we shot in two days at multiple locations on a shoestring; directed by Ben Dickinson; produced by me.  Props to my excellent production supervisor, Emi Onishi, for keeping us solvent.

D: Ben Dickinson | SP: Abbé Daniel | P: Ghost Robot | A: Team Detroit  | C: Ford

One of ten spots we shot in two days, directed by Ben Dickinson; produced by me.  This is Monte.  He could lasso anything!

D: Ben Dickinson | SP: Abbé Daniel | P: Ghost Robot | A: Team Detroit  | C: Ford

Produced ExxonMobil's Math & Science Initiative commercial starring Phil Mikelson that aired nationally during the Master's Golf Tournament.  Amelia Dallis was the campaign producer on this mammoth-sized job, while I produced the shoot with Phil (a very nice guy).

D: Warren Fischer | CP: Amelia Dallis | P: Bunker | A: Euro RSCG  | C: ExxonMobil

I post produced this spot starring soccer champion Carli Lloyd. Editor Jonah Oskow saved the day with his awesome VFX trickery.

D: Bick/Antzis | P: Decon | A: Decoded | C: VISA + Chevron

I post produced this spot edited by Jonah Oskow.

D: Clint Chang | P: Decon | A: Decoded | C: VISA + Android Pay

I post produced this trailer for the Project Re:Brief campaign, which invited four advertising icons of the past to re-imagine their ads for Coca-Cola, Volvo, Avis, and Alka-Seltzer; for the digital age.

D: Doug Pray | E: Philip Owens | A: Johannes Leonardo | C: Google

I post produced this film about Harvey Gabor, the creative director whose Hilltop ad for Coca-Cola ["I'd like to teach the world to sing . . ."] became one of the most celebrated and recognizable spots of all time.  Harvey, was brought out of retirement by Google and asked to re-imagine his advert for the digital age.  What he and the teams at Google and Johannes Leonardo came up with, garnered numerous, coveted advertising awards for its reinterpretation of how one can now "buy the world a Coke".

D: Doug Pray | E: Philip Owens | A: Johannes Leonardo | C: Google

I post produced this film about Amil Gargano, the creative director invited by Google to re-imagine his Volvo, Drive it Like You Hate It campaign, for the digital age.  Watch as he teams up with Google and Johannes Leonardo to create an interactive campaign that celebrates a real-life Volvo connoisseur, with over a million miles on his original Volvo!

D: Doug Pray | E: Philip Owens | A: Johannes Leonardo | C: Google

For this documentary-styled spot, Cliff Freeman asked me to find a Caribbean island rich in agricultural products.  I researched the entire Caribbean and chose Grenada, where I found some great people and places to profile in their "In Pursuit of Freshness" campaign.

D: Rob Devor | P: DJB Group | A: Cliff Freeman | C: Bonefish Grill

For this documentary-styled spot, Cliff Freeman asked me to find a Mediterranean location with an old-world feel and a small-scale fishing culture; a place that was also rich in other agricultural products .  I delivered Malta, where I found some great places and events to profile in their "In Pursuit of Freshness" campaign.

D: Rob Devor | P: DJB Group | A: Cliff Freeman | C: Bonefish Grill

I produced this entire campaign for GlaxoSmithKline.  We made a 20 minute film, 13 national spots and 26 webisodes.  The amazing Jessica Yu directed. Arnold NYC was the agency.  This project went on for more than a year, half of which I personally spent casting just the right people.  We actually helped people quit smoking: not just the four talent, but friends and crew too!  This made it quite rewarding.

D: Jessica Yu | P: Nonfiction Spots | A: Arnold | C: GlaxoSmithKline

Another spot from the Lisa series.  It was amazing to follow the day-to-day trials and tribulations of our four smokers who were quitting with Commit.  Working on this job was a balancing act between documenting their real lives and supporting and encouraging the smokers out of compassion.  I think I deserve an honorary degree in psychological and substance abuse recovery counseling after this one.  This imaginary degree has served me well on many productions since.

D: Jessica Yu | P: Nonfiction Spots | A: Arnold | C: GlaxoSmithKline

This is just one of many Carlsberg beer spots I produced, directed by Martin Werner.  The others include among them flying lawnmowers, beer rockets, a beer-launching refrigerator (no need to get up), a beer bottle Christmas tree, an impressive DIY Rube Goldberg beer opening contraption, and more!  [There is no trick photography and there are no post effects. These guys actually did all these tricks on camera.  Really!]

D: Martin Werner | P: Bacon & DJB Group | A: &Co.  | C: Carlsberg

Another Carlsberg spot I produced for director Martin Werner, this one with lawnmower stunts.  Booyah!  Add lawn resurfacing to budget, check.

D: Martin Werner | P: Bacon & DJB Group | A: &Co.  | C: Carlsberg

Another Carlsberg spot with director Martin Werner.  I have to hand it to Martin, he's not afraid to make the art department sweat. I don't think they'd ever been asked to make a flying lawnmower.  Too bad the spot doesn't feature any close ups.  I have to admit it was pretty fun to watch.

D: Martin Werner | P: Bacon & DJB Group | A: &Co.  | C: Carlsberg

I produced a series of PSAs for the Children's Defense Fund, directed by Academy Award-winning director, Barbara Kopple. The Elect Susie campaign was lobbying for children's health insurance coverage. We were shooting outside in 20-degree weather but it was great working with Barbara. The security measures required for permission to shoot at the White House were a trip. Also, our shoot coincided with a large protest march on the opposite side of the street, which resulted in one of those crazy production moments where we were caught between our responsibility to our client (recording clean audio) and the peoples' rights to protest. We waited it out and expressed a collective sigh of relief when they dissipated. Power to the people!

D: Barbara Kopple | P: Nonfiction Spots | A: Fallon | C: Children’s Defense Fund

This is the director’s cut version of an industrial post produced for KPMG.

D: T.J. O’Grady | P: Decon | A: Arcade Creative Group (Sony) | C: KPMG

This was the first Ford, "Swap Your Ride" campaign.  I built a post production department from scratch and post produced 57 spots, in two languages, including graphics.  This campaign was wildly successful for Ford and has been repeated (and also mimicked by other car manufacturers) for years.

D: Jessica Yu | P: Nonfiction Spots | A: JWT & Team Detroit | C: Ford

I supervised this production in LA for Deborah Marlow, who produced from Copenhagen.  It was the first and only time I've worked with a live grizzly bear, a formidable creature, who required his own industrial-strength air-conditioning unit and was fed bear claws (I'm not kidding) as an incentive to sit in the chair.  After the first day of shooting, when the talent was uncooperative with the blocking of this scene, the creatives had me on the phone trying to find a great-looking man in a bear suit. I'm really glad the bear had a change of heart and finally "sat" in the chair on our last day of shooting.

D: Sven-Erik Nielsen | A: Nørgärd Mikkelsen Reklamerbureau, Denmark  | C: RBM

I was the production supervisor on this series of spots for Nordea Bank.  Sometimes we shot in up to 3 locations in a day, while still casting and location scouting during company moves.  Lesson learned: don't assume that "bank" in the client's name will transfer over to one's working budget.

D: Martin Werner | P: Deborah Marlow | P: DJB Group | A: Wibroe, Duckert & Partners, Copenhagen

I was the production supervisor on this series of spots for Nordea Bank.  

D: Martin Werner | P: Deborah Marlow | P: DJB Group | A: Wibroe, Duckert & Partners, Copenhagen

I was the production supervisor on this series of spots for Nordea Bank.  

D: Martin Werner | P: Deborah Marlow | P: DJB Group | A: Wibroe, Duckert & Partners, Copenhagen

I was the production supervisor on this.  It's directed by Martin Werner and produced by Deborah Marlow.  We shot it in Venice, CA at a fast and furious pace.  We had to get the whole crew to help the art department shake the truck with the bottles in the back.  Sansao and vodka became the wrap party cocktail.

D: Martin Werner | P: Deborah Marlow | P: Bacon & DJB Group | A: RBL/Grey  | C: Coca-Cola

I was the production supervisor on this spot, shot in Venice, CA.

D: Martin Werner | P: Deborah Marlow | P: Hundred Percent Films, Denmark & DJB Group | A: Grey, CPH | C: GlaxoSmithKline

I produced this feature documentary about cult B-movie filmmaker Roger Corman, recipient of an Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award. It features interviews with the Hollywood A-List who began their careers with him, including Jack Nicholson, Ron Howard, Martin Scorcese, William Shatner, David Carradine, Peter Bogdanovich and many others.  Alex Stapleton's directorial debut premiered at Sundance, showed at Cannes, Telluride, New York Film Festival, Karlovy Vary and others. It was picked up by A&E and released theatrically via Anchor Bay in the US, and internationally via Fortissimo.  

Jack Nicholson is great in this!

D: Alex Stapleton | P: Far Hills Pictures |  acquired by A&E Indie

I was the NYC Production Supervisor on this film with an incredibly nice and talented cast and crew (many from Sweden), shooting in pretty tough conditions: NYC, winter, exteriors, paparazzi overkill.  It was all worth it.  The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival.

D:  Lukas Moodysson | P: Memphis Filmproduktion AB, Sweden & DJB Group

Four classic advertising campaigns from the '60s and '70s are re-imagined for the web by the original creative directors working with Google and contemporary creative teams. I post produced this one-hour feature documentary, a ten minute doc on each of the campaigns (Coca-Cola, Volvo, Avis, and Alka-Seltzer) and a trailer for the project.  Director Doug Pray and editor Philip Owens were unbelievably wonderful to work with, and the creative and technical teams from Google, Grow and Johannes Leonardo were amazing.

D: Doug Pray | E: Philip Owens | A: Johannes Leonardo | C: Google

I produced this 2 hour primetime special for ABC and production managed the host segments.  It's an engaging retrospective about TV in the 1970s and its impact on the medium as well as on American culture.  It is hosted by Mike Farrell, Hugh Downs, Peter Falk, Melissa Gilbert, John Ritter, The Smothers Brothers and Betty White and features a large celebrity cast.   I really enjoyed working with director Stacy Peralta and our team of talented editors.

(higher rez excerpts coming soon)

D: Stacy Peralta | P: Rocket Science Labs | C: Museum of Television & Radio | N: ABC

I produced and directed this documentary as well as the entire DVD Box set, which was The New York Times Pick of the Week. Polish language school finally paid off, as I was able to interview filmmaker Andrzej Wajda and his colleagues in Polish.  Andrzej Wajda was so happy with the results, he drove the DVDs to his local television station in Warsaw and told them that this is how they should be making programs.  Producing for The Criterion Collection was a dream job for this film nerd.  I was lucky to produce a number of projects for them.

P: The Criterion Collection

(Video excerpt coming soon; the above is just a promo for the film.)

Hosted by Ron Howard, this doc was nominated for a primetime Emmy and was shortlisted for Academy Award consideration.  I was the associate producer as well as the production manager (uncredited) on this film.  This started out as a made-for-TV (AMC) documentary that was to be shot on Beta SP.  I was instrumental in convincing the producers and Sony to partner up and make this one of the first documentaries to be shot in HD, which not only made it look great, but also encouraged a theatrical release.  It was a real treat to share an office and many lunches with Tom Capra, Frank's son, a great human and an accomplished news producer.  Thanks to producer Charles A. Duncombe, Jr. for bringing me on board.

D: Kenneth Bowser | P: Charles A. Duncombe, Jr. | P: Zaloom-Mayfield Productions | C: Columbia TriStar Theatrical | N: AMC

(video excerpt coming soon)

I co-produced and production managed this star-studded 2 hour primetime documentary for CBS on the way television of the past influenced contemporary pioneers in the medium.  Directed by the wonderful and ever-amazing Stacy Peralta; hosted by Candice Bergen; featuring interviews with: Steven Bochco, James L. Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Fran Drescher, David Duchovny, Jenna Elfman, Dennis Franz, Kelsey Grammar, Matt Groening, Lisa Kudrow, Christine Lahti, Dylan McDermott, Conan O'Brien, and Paul Reiser.

D: Stacy Peralta | P: Rocket Science Labs | C: Museum of Television & Radio | N: CBS 

I co-produced and production managed (uncredited) this 2 hour primetime special for ABC about the history of teenagers' portrayals on television, hosted by Melissa Joan Hart and directed by Stacy Peralta.  I also headed the archival research and acquisitions, which involved building and maintaining a complex clip clearance database.  But I felt I had truly arrived the day that I got to watch episodes of "The Simpsons", and get paid for it!

D: Stacy Peralta | P: ZMC | C: Museum of Television & Radio | N: ABC

For years I managed Los Angeles-based band, Kaliband. I booked and managed their shows.  I also created all their promotional materials, like this one for their record release party, DJ'ed by Garth Trinidad of KCRW.  It was a blast!

I partnered in starting and running a monthly club night in Los Angeles called "Move".  I designed all the promotional materials and ran the club, promotions, social networking, etc.  We had fun making an eclectic mix of people move!

Another flyer design for Move.

I organized this art show for artist Gary Campbell, which included securing the space, managing the installation, designing the promotional materials, and handling buyer's inquiries.

I started an art salon.  Our first event featured the work of Brooklyn artist, Gary Campbell.  It was a great party, and it helped Gary build a broader fan base and secure other shows.

I have a cameo in this Danish film at around 16:00.