Dane Hanson wrote, directed and starred in “The Female Orgasm Law” which won the Audience Award for Best Comedy Short at the prestigious 2012 Friars Club Comedy Festival! Whether it be as a filmmaker or as one of their hand-picked judges, Dane has been part of The Friars Club Festival every year since 2011, starting with his viral smash-hit, “Lie Detector”.

Dane has acted in more than 60 national commercials. Dane fell in love with commercial directing after having worked as an actor for very famous, genius directors such as [names redacted].

For 11 years, Dane ran the critically-acclaimed sketch comedy show, Sitcoms Blow. Working as head writer and director for 65 actors at its peak, and performing more than 1500 live shows, that’s where Dane really developed his comedic writing and directing tools.

Dane is currently the producer of the TV show, Laughs, a program on Fox that showcases new, emerging stand-up comics.

Dane lives wherever the work is but if he could choose, he’d probably be in a freezing cold climate, with hockey on the TV, planning out his next shoot.

Brett Wagner is a former professional wrestler and reality TV star, which is unfortunate for the Brett Wagner you’re interested in, because it dilutes his search results. The Brett Wagner you’re interested in is a director based in Los Angeles and Honolulu, with many industry awards crowding the mantle he will have when he gets a bigger house, one with a mantle.

He has helmed projects for Road Runner, McDonalds, American Savings Bank, Lexus, Toyota, Hawaiian Airlines, Starwood Resorts, Burger King, United Way and Mobi PCS. While he was helming them, he also directed them.

When he’s not making commercials, Brett is often sleeping. When not sleeping, he writes and directs award-winning films such as CHIEF, which premiered at Sundance and was declared “a must-see” by IndieWIRE. CHIEF—and his latest film, CARE—both won the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, earning them Oscar-Award qualification and Lucite statuettes, which will one day go on that mantle.

Brett’s adaptation of the New York Times bestselling memoir, THE DEVIL’S TEETH, for executive producer Terrence Malick, received a Sloan Foundation Development Grant from the Tribeca Film Festival. His first feature film, FIVE YEARS, was distributed internationally (under the release title THE HIDDEN) after a 30-festival tour that included awards for Best Feature Film at the Victoria Film Festival and Best Screenplay at Avignon. Check it out in Turkish!

Brett grew up in beautiful Cleveland, OH, which is adjacent to the regular Cleveland, OH. He earned an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He has dived with great white sharks, organized Martin Scorsese’s film collection, sipped kava with the village elders, traded on the black market in Soviet Leningrad, worked concessions at the Rocky Horror Picture Show, poked lava with a stick, and recently squished a Suzuki with a backhoe. His intentions were honorable.

Jacob/Slade is the directing team of Enno Jacobsen and Kristina Slade.  Enno has been a commercial director for the past 12 years, bringing his love and eye for telling charming stories to projects across Europe for Volkswagen, Toyota, and Target.  Kristina worked as a Creative Director and Creative at ad agencies for 12 years, developing award-winning campaigns for brands such as ESPN, Target, and Virgin.

After ten years of consulting each other on their individual projects, Enno + Kristina have finally joined forces.

Kristina Slade has spent the last 12 years as a Creative Director and Creative, working at some of the most prestigious agencies in traditional and digital advertising (Ground Zero, TBWA Chiat Day, AKQA).  She has won almost every major advertising award and accolades for her creative and strategic work and direction for some of the America’s best-known brands, such as ESPN, Target, Virgin, the LA Times and many more.

Born and raised in Germany, Enno worked for several years in broadcast news before he crossed over to directing commercials. Since 2002 he’s been directing in the United States (where he is now based) as well as Europe, bringing his love for visual storytelling to projects for clients such as BMW, Toyota, and Target. When he’s not directing, he’s probably watching movies.

Born in Virginia, raised in 3 countries, 4 states and a commonwealth, Daniel Sheppard knows a thing or two about writing bios in the third person. He has won countless participation awards for his elementary and middle school sports programs and was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year in 2006.

He has an agency background where he spent many nights increasing logo sizes and trying to figure out how they get all those cinnamon swirls into every bite of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Legend has it, he once showed up to work naked with nothing but his normal clothes on.

Daniel got into commercial directing when he met a drunk guy that said, “Hey, man. You should direct.” He’ll never forget that day.

Jordan Brady began as a stand-up comedian, touring nightclubs and colleges in 49 states across America. His first big break came when MTV tapped him to host a game show, “Turn It Up!” Next, he hosted and directed the NBC Saturday Morning reality series, “Name Your Adventure”. In addition to NBC promo shoots, Jordan began directing short films and series for Comedy Central and MTV.

Jordan Brady wrote and directed the feature mockumentary, “Dill Scallion”. Critic Roger Ebert anointed it the “‘Spinal Tap’ of country music.” Brady followed up with the independent film “The Third Wheel” starring Ben Affleck and Luke Wilson, and the Miramax flop “Waking Up In Reno” with Billy Bob Thornton and an undiscovered
Charlize Theron.

Mr. Brady’s first documentary is “I AM COMIC”. The film explores the art & occupational hazards of stand-up comedy. It stars Sarah Silverman, Louis C.K., Tim Allen, Jeff Foxworthy, Janeane Garofalo and 76 other
professional comics.

Jordan’s true passion is commercials. He has directed over 719 national TV spots to date.

Check out Jordan on imdb.com or iamcomicmovie.com and he is fun to Google. Jordan Brady takes his documentary, “I AM COMIC,” to Slamdance: “Bow-Chicka-Bow-Wow!”