SCREENWRITER
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
ABOUT
Screenwriter, creative director AND DIRECTOR BASED IN LONDON, CURRENTLY THE CREATIVE DIRECTOR AT MYRIAD GLOBAL. Previously working with commercial and feature directors at MJZ, indy8, uta, icm, division, finch, independent films and more.
selected
WORKS
Featured
Event Film
ADNOC
For the second year running, we teamed up with ADNOC to create a dream-like event film, opening with a young man rediscovering the magic of nature, and closing with two children discovering it for the first time. Capturing the essence of child-like wonder to reignite the feeling of discovery.
Agency: Myriad Global / Creative Director: Aaron Bensaude / Director: Aaron Bensaude / Producer: Danielle Clark / DOP: John Seddon
TVC
EXCELERATE
A brand-rep commercial centred on energy security in the developing world. Epic-scale infrastructure, brought down to the human level with beautiful documentary-meets-advert cinematography and street casting, and a new brand voice designed for down-the-line campaigns.
Agency: Myriad Global / Creative Director: Aaron Bensaude / Director: Aaron Bensaude / Producer: Aaron Bensaude, Kristina Toffi, Nikol Grigorova / Creative Producer: Yael Leonor Plantenga / DOP: JP Lewis, Janice D'Avila
Commercial
Moments
"Moments that Matter" 80-second PSA-style commercial for a household-name Fortune 500 company. Because the moments that matter at home, all depend on the moments that matter at work.
Agency: Myriad Global / Creative Director: Aaron Bensaude / Director: Aaron Bensaude / Writer: Guy Nisbett / Producer: Danielle Clark, Keiko Nagai / DOP: Orlando Briones
Cinema Advert
Aesop
Working with the in-house creative director at cult-skincare brand Aēsop to create a cinema advert reflecting the iconic brand's clean art-world cool. Beautiful black-and-white imagery, Alphaville focus pulls, and the brand’s famous stores.
Agency: Daesin Production / Creative Director: Yianni Warnock, Aaron Bensaude / Director: Yianni Warnock / Producer: Aaron Bensaude / DOP: Yianni Warnock
Drama
Assumption
"The Assumption of Saffi at the End of the World." In a far corner of the woods, a teenage metal scavenger stumbles on a stranded socialite by the side of the road. Desperate to escape, the older woman imposes herself on the young girl, but neither of them are as they seem in this genre-bending drama about getting what you want.
Writer-Director: Aaron Bensaude / Producer: Alex Gillespie, Blake Curtis, Aaron Bensaude / DOP: Simon J. Walsh / Production Designer: Karli-Rose Laredo / Editor: Aaron Bensaude / Costume Designer: Andrew Infanti / Sound Designer: Dominik Avenwedde, Josh Peters / Starring: Shannon Barker, Veronica Thomas and Syd Brisbane
Event Film
Limedrop
For L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Week we took Limedrop's digitally-woven fabrics inspired by clouds, out into a burnt forest now bursting with new life. Ethereal imagery, a drifty electronic score and their new collection. All playing across giant screens as the models walked the runway.
Agency: Dasein Productions / Director: Yianni Warnock / Producer: Yianni Warnock / Creative Producer: Aaron Bensaude / DOP: Benjamin Gilovitz
Campaign
weaus.org
Editorial and copywriting for WeAustralians.org, an artist-run-initiative questioning notions of race, culture, and collective memory, showing at the National Gallery of Victoria. Included a four-page article in the print magazine ArtLink, alongside press, marketing collaterals and developing the group’s voice for all print and digital media. Talented artists doing great things.
Editorial, Copywriting, Exhibition Signage and Creative Lead: Aaron Bensaude / Image Credits: Bindi Cole, Eva Fernandez, Monika Behrens
AARON BENSAUDE
background
working across agency and production, with a SCReenwriting background. designing creative solutions for some of the worlds biggest brands and companies. driving brand engagement through emotional brand rep campaigns, and helping create culture change around some of the world's most complex issues.
with additional work for international artists, architects and designers, including contemporary dance and performing arts directors. and as a script consultant on features and series scripts, including projects on major svod services and WITH international film fesitval releases.
SCREENPLAYS HAVE BEEN IN OFFICIAL SELECTION AT MAJOR INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALS, WITH SEVERAL SHORT FORM PROJECTS IN PRODUCTION OR DEVELOPMENT.