Camille Summers-Valli
Camille Summers-Valli is a French-Australian artist, director and photographer. Her work includes music videos and commercials. She has won a UK Music Video Awards for her music video direction and was nominated for a Cannes Lions award for her New York Times campaign.
Life and career
Summers-Valli was born in Thailand and raised in Nepal to documentary filmmaker parents. She graduated from Central Saint Martins in London in 2014 with a degree in Video Art and was selected to participate in the Bloomberg New Contemporaries exhibition of 2014 with her work Black Mesa.Music Videos
Summers-Valli has directed music videos for artists such as Haim, BadBadNotGood, Låpsley, and METTE. She was awarded a Yellow Pencil for Direction in both the Music Video and Long Form categories for "MAMA'S EYES" with METTE at the 2024 D&AD Awards. Other works include "Relationships", co-produced by Rostam Batmanglij and Danielle Haim, featuring actor Drew Starkey, and BadBadNotGood’s "Beside April".Commercials
In 2022, Summers-Valli was awarded D&AD Pencils for Art Direction and Editing for The Truth Takes a Journalist for The New York Times, directed What's Changing About Fashion's Relationship to the Body? for Vogue, and created commercials for brands includingHermès and Jean Paul Gaultier. In 2024, she directed The Audition and The Date for Coach’s "Unlock Your Courage" campaign, starring Elle Fanning and Charles Melton, and a campaign for On featuring Zendaya. In 2024, she was signed to MJZ for commercial representation in the US, UK, and the Netherlands.Documentaries
In 2015, Summers-Valli made her directorial debut with the documentary feature, Big Mountain Diné Bikéyah, which focuses on the Navajo community's struggle to preserve their ancestral lands against corporate and governmental encroachment.Awards and nominations
| Year | Result | Award | Category | Work | Ref. |
| 2023 | Won | UK Music Video Awards | Video of the Year | METTE - "MAMA'S EYES" | |
| 2023 | Nominated | UK Music Video Awards | Best Director | METTE - "MAMA'S EYES" | |
| 2023 | Nominated | UK Music Video Awards | Best Pop Video – International | METTE - "MAMA'S EYES" | |
| 2022 | Won | Ad Age | Director to Watch | ||
| 2022 | Won | AICP Awards | Web Film | The Truth Takes a Journalist | |
| 2022 | Won | D&AD Awards | Web Film | The Truth Takes a Journalist | |
| 2022 | Won | Clio Awards | Web Film | The Truth Takes a Journalist | |
| 2022 | Won | Webby Awards | Advertising, Media & PR | The Truth Takes a Journalist |