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The Hitcher – Dave Meyers – Director Interview

Thanks to Toohey’s – 6 Beers of Separation promotion we got the opportunity to have a chat with music video director Dave Meyers. We talked to Dave about the music video industry, moving into feature films with The Hitcher remake and being creative.

Dave’s Bio from Wikipedia

David “Dave” Meyers is an American music video director. He has directed close to 200 high-profile videos including Slipknot’s Left Behind, Brandy’s ‘Talk About Our Love’, Dido’s ‘Thankyou’, Kelly Clarkson’s ‘Breakaway’, Hilary Duff’s ‘Come Clean’, Jay-Z’s ‘Dirt Off Your Shoulder’, Dave Matthews Band’s ‘The Space Between’, Stacie Orrico’s ‘(There’s Gotta Be) More To Life’, Britney Spears’ ‘Lucky’ and Aaliyah’s number one uk single “More Than a Woman. He is also a frequent collaborator to Pink, and Missy Elliott, with whom he co-directed Lose Control, winning the Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video in 2005.

Meyers enrolled into Loyola Marymount University upon graduation from Berkeley High School (California), acquired degrees in Film Production and Philosophy, and worked his way through the studio systems at Paramount and Fox before filming his first music video with rap crew The Whoridas. His video for ‘Work It’ won the 2003 MTV Video Music Award for Best Video of the Year. He directed the 1999 Eddie Griffin comedy Foolish, and the 2007 remake of The Hitcher.

In early 2008, Meyers directed the first 3D music video for Missy Elliott’s single Ching-a-Ling.

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• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0583515/

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2 Responses to “The Hitcher – Dave Meyers – Director Interview”

1. romain says:

   Great interview!
   It’s nice to here a director talk truthfuly about his industry and not ramble on about how perfect everything is.

   May 12, 2009 at 8:11 pm
   • Q-Dog says:

     Glad you enjoyed. we thoroughly enjoyed doing it too.

     he was avery honest and nice guy. and considering he works in music videos thats completely amazing!

     May 13, 2009 at 5:53 pm

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