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Chimney expands within the DACH region

Chimney, a full-service cross media company, has opened a new branch in Switzerland. It is now the company's third office within the DACH region, alongside Berlin and Frankfurt am Main. The new branch is under the leadership of Country Manager Nelly Riggenbach Hasler, who has a background within Employer Branding and Media. Chimney has a heritage steeped in film and they have for the last 20 year created entertaining and impactful moving images for brands such as H&M and SAS, for advertising agencies like DDB and feature films like “Searching for Sugarman” and Spike Jonze’s “Her” as well

Cannes update - Chimney project in Un Certain Regard

White God, the Swedish/Hungarian/German feature film directed by Kornél Mundruczó, produced by Proton Cinema and co-produced by Pola Pandora and Chimney, has been selected for the prestigious category Un Certain Regard where it will be screened during Festival de Cannes. It is a story about genocide, about a world where some are chosen and others are deselected. The theme is not unknown but the question that is asked in this film is: Will it ever stop? This feature is Mundruczós sixth one. He has previously received a lot of praise for Tender Son as well as Delta; both of the films were

What does a company sound like?

Brands and companies are constantly publishing content to an increasing number of channels. Many of those are digital, placing new demands on corporate communication toolboxes. Strong sound identities are expected to become significant competitive parameters in the communication of the future.Companies are communicating through owned channels like never before. The pursuit of content that adds value is spreading fast, and terms like ‘content marketing’, ‘real-time marketing’ and ‘branded content’ takes up space in articles and at seminars. Businesses are beginning to understand the

Chimney becomes intercontinental

Chimney, a leading European Creation Agency has become intercontinental by welcoming Marbay , a digital production house based in Sydney, to the Chimney Group. The partnership with Marbay will offer direction and digital solutions to Chimney’s clients in Europe. Johan Polhem, Film Director and Co-Founder of Marbay believes that the merger will have a very positive outcome for Marbay’s client stock as well: “Expanding Marbay’s production and digital offering with high level visualization and concept services from Chimney’s side will help us to support even more

Chimney project wins an Oscar – second year in a row

The motion picture Her, directed and written by Spike Jonze, color graded and conformed by Chimney, has won an Oscar for Original Screenplay. “Last year Searching for Sugarman won. It is amazing to see that one of our projects wins again”. says Fredrik Zander, Head of Art & Entertainment at Chimney. Her was a great project for Chimney, especially the cooperation between Mats Holmgren that graded the film and the very talented cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema. Her has won and been nominated for several prestigious awards, both in the United States and in Europe. Especially the film’s

Chimney publishes a book to help European filmmakers fund their projects

The idea of writing a book about European film financing has been growing over the last few years at Chimney and last Sunday Chimney’s Top 100 European Film Funds: The Gateway to European Film Financing was launched at Berlinale and is available for purchase at www.amazon.co.uk. “The film business is going through a significant change where resources and funding are decreasing in many places making it more complicated and expensive to finance a project. We hope that this book will give the reader inspiration and new creative ways of putting together solid financial planning.” explains

Chimney project gets Oscar nominated – third year in a row

The motion picture Her, directed and written by Spike Jonze, color graded and conformed by Chimney, has been nominated for: Best Picture, Original Screenplay, Music - Original score, Music - Original Song and Production Design. The Chimney team that worked on the project primarily consists of Colorist Mats Holmgren, DI Supervisor Jonas Jangvad and DI Producer Anneli Oscarsson. The film features Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson and follows a lonely writer (Phoenix) that develops an unlikely relationship with his newly-purchased operating system that's designed to meet his

Chimney wins an Oscar!!

Last night Searching for Sugar Man won an Oscar for best Documentary! Chimney has had a big part in making it and this is the first time Chimney is involved in a film that wins an Oscar!  “We believed in Malik Bendjelloul from the beginning and saw huge potential in this project, therefore we helped Malik to finalize the film. It is great to get our belief in this documentary confirmed with an Oscar” says Fredrik Zander, head of the feature film department in Chimney. The project was done mainly at the Stockholm office but in collaboration with Warsaw. A great example of when

700 hours of work behind a film seen by 400 million people

The Chimney Pot has just finalized the work with the commercial for the Indian Premier League. A commercial that will be shown for 400 million people!Last week The Chimney Pot finished a commercial for Premier League in India together with Bang Bang Films and Ogilvy from Mumbai. This commercial will be shown for approx 400 million TV viewers in India and Australia! To put this in perspective the commercials during the Super Bowl kick-off was shown for 250 million people.  The Chimney Pot was part of the project as early as animatic and pre production work as well as at the shot in Mumbai

The Chimney Pot behind the epic video of DURAN DURAN "GIRL PANIC"

Stockholm based THE CHIMNEY POT is joining forces with Jonas Åkerlund on the video of the yearNaomi Campbell, Helena Christensen, Yasmin Le Bon, Cindy Crawford and Eva Herzigova teamed up with Duran Duran and Director Jonas Åkerlund and his Swedish team at Stockholm based, The Chimney Pot, to create the epic video for the song "Girl Panic", shot on location in the beautiful Savoy Hotel in London. The super models play the band members in this short-movie / video that is 10 min long. It was a challenge for the director to sync the calendars of the band and the models but we are

SWEDISH TEAM BEHIND LADY GAGAS EPIC NEW VIDEO TELEPHONE - FEATURING POP SUPERSTAR BEYONCE

Stockholm based The Chimney Pot finish work on Lady Gagas latest music videoThe magic of the edgy and bombastic just released ten minute long Lady Gaga music video is the work of film director Jonas Åkerlund and his Stockholm based post-production team. The Chimney Pot post-production house handled the visual effects, beauty work and sound de- sign. The Chimney Pot has done Gaga-wonders before, among them the music video Paparazzi, for which they were rewarded with an MTV video award for best visual effects in 2009. Henric Larson, CEO, The Chimney Pot: “This is the pop video of the

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