When Pete Riski’s not making us cry with adorable dogs, his work includes riveting spots for Volkswagen, McDonald’s, Renault, and beyond, that mix a playful and humorous sensibility with expertly-constructed visuals.

Branded content is at its finest in the collaborations between Johnnie Walker Blue Label and RSA’s Jake Scott.

If there’s one thing we know, it’s that when we hear Daniel Wolfe has come out with a new piece of work, we’re finding the closest screen to watch.

Rodrigo Urbano is one of our most trusted Assistant Directors, working with us on projects from Corona to Bimbo to Levi’s (twice!) to HP to FIFA to Motorola to a music video for Röyksopp and Robyn.

We are excited to welcome the talented Bastian Glaessner to The Lift’s director roster.

We sat down with producers Fuad Abed and Magali Sagarra to talk about what it’s actually like to shoot here in Mexico, why your expectations might be false and some of the challenges that arise along the way.

While it’s probably clear by now that you can shoot Mexico for just about anywhere in the world (see any number of location fake-outs here, here, and here), there’s an integral part of that that we acknowledge and expertly consider in every job we do, which is casting.

Ideally, we’d be running through a list of the best VR on a headset so we can show you exactly how overwhelming and amazing the experience is.

What with Ciclope last week and the VR Summit as well, it’s been hard to keep anything but virtual reality and augmented reality in our, well, reality right now.

What a week of virtual and augmented reality we had here in Mexico.

It’s been a really great few years for Ian Pons Jewell.

Framestore is an extraordinary creative studio behind some of the best visual effects, production, direction and post-production this industry (and others) have to offer.

We are excited to announce that the nomadic version of the festival, Ciclope Tour, is making its debut in Mexico City next month.

This month we are highlighting some of the best and brightest from the UK. So it serves to reason that we would want to talk about the directors that bring an insane amount of talent with them on every job they do.

The Advertising Producers Association was formed to protect something so vital to our core ethos: creative collaboration across the industry.

Staying in step with our British month of January, we wanted to acknowledge some stellar work produced by our friends in the UK, starting with Blink Productions.