Propaganda Films
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Propaganda Films was a prolific and successful music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

 and film production company founded in 1983 by producers Steve Golin
Steve Golin
Steve Golin is the founder and CEO of Anonymous Content LLP, a multimedia development, production and talent management company and co-founder and former CEO of Propaganda Films.-Propaganda Films:...

 and Sigurjón Sighvatsson
Sigurjón Sighvatsson
Sigurjón Sighvatsson , also known as Joni Sighvatsson, is a veteran Hollywood film producer and businessman. Currently he is the principal of Palomar Pictures, an independent film production company in Los Angeles. Palomar's current project Killer Elite was released September 23rd, 2011...

 and directors David Fincher
David Fincher
David Andrew Leo Fincher is an American film and music video director. Known for his dark and stylish thrillers, such as Seven , The Game , Fight Club , Panic Room , and Zodiac , Fincher received Academy Award nominations for Best Director for his 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and...

, Nigel Dick
Nigel Dick
Nigel Dick is an English music video and film director, writer and musician based in Los Angeles, California. He directed the Band Aid video "Do They Know It's Christmas?", as well as over 300 other music videos.Nigel Dick should not be confused with the Australian Dr...

, Greg Gold and Dominic Sena
Dominic Sena
-Life and career:Sena was born in Niles, Ohio. He is of Italian-American heritage. His family hails from the town of Bagnoli Irpino, Avellino, Italy. As one of the founders of Propaganda Films, Sena worked primarily in music videos early in his career. Sena directed several of Janet Jackson's...

. By 1990, the company was producing almost a third of all music videos made in the U.S..

Directors who have worked with Propaganda Films

  • Dante Ariola
  • Vaughan Arnell
    Vaughan Arnell
    Vaughan Arnell is a British music videos and television commercials director. Although having done films for high profile clients in the tv commercial field, including Nestlé and Levi's, he is mostly known for his music video work. He is a frequent collaborator of music artist Robbie Williams...

  • Michael Bay
    Michael Bay
    Michael Benjamin Bay is an American film director and producer. He is known for directing high-budget action films characterized by their fast edits, stylistic visuals and substantial practical special effects...

  • Paul Boyd
    Paul Boyd
    Paul Boyd is a British, music video, commercial and feature film director.Born in Scotland, Boyd graduated from St. Martin's School of Art in London with a BA in Fine Art Film...

  • Nick Brandt
    Nick Brandt
    Nick Brandt is a photographer who photographs exclusively in Africa, one of his goals being to record a visually poetic last testament to the wild animals and places there before they are gone at the hands of man.-Background and early career:...

  • John Dahl
    John Dahl
    John Dahl is an American film director and screenwriter, best known for his work in the neo-noir genre.-Life and career:John Dahl was born in Billings, Montana, the second of four children . Dahl spent his young life in and around Montana all the way up through his college years...

  • Nigel Dick
    Nigel Dick
    Nigel Dick is an English music video and film director, writer and musician based in Los Angeles, California. He directed the Band Aid video "Do They Know It's Christmas?", as well as over 300 other music videos.Nigel Dick should not be confused with the Australian Dr...

  • Rene Eller
  • David Fincher
    David Fincher
    David Andrew Leo Fincher is an American film and music video director. Known for his dark and stylish thrillers, such as Seven , The Game , Fight Club , Panic Room , and Zodiac , Fincher received Academy Award nominations for Best Director for his 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and...

  • David Kellogg
    David Kellogg
    David Kellogg is an American film, commercial, and music video director.Kellogg has gained prominence for dozens of television spots that he has created for clients such as Pepsi, Fuji, AT&T, Sprite, Coke, Nike, Apple, IBM, MCI, United Airlines, and Mercedes-Benz...

  • Antoine Fuqua
    Antoine Fuqua
    Antoine Fuqua is an American film director. He directed the film Training Day as well as Tears of the Sun, King Arthur, Shooter and Brooklyn's Finest...

  • Douglas Gayeton
    Douglas Gayeton
    Douglas Gayeton is an award-winning American multimedia artist, filmmaker, writer, and photographer who divides his time between a farm near Petaluma, California and Pistoia, a medieval Tuscan town....

  • Andrea Giacobbe
  • Greg Gold
  • Steven Hanft
  • Spike Jonze
    Spike Jonze
    Spike Jonze is an American director, producer and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television...

  • Alek Keshishian
    Alek Keshishian
    Alek Keshishian is a Lebanese-born Armenian film director. He is best known for his 1991 film Madonna: Truth or Dare, which for a time was the highest-grossing documentary of all time....

  • Kuntz & Maguire
  • Marcel Langenegger
  • Christian Langlois
    Christian Langlois
    Christian Langlois is a Film director from Montreal, Canada. He has directed several short films, music videos and TV spot. He studied at Université du Québec à Montréal in Communications program: video art and new medias. He published several articles about the role of the technologies and the...

  • Scott Marshall
    Scott Marshall (director)
    Scott Marshall is an American film director.Marshall was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Barbara Wells, a nurse, and director/producer Garry Marshall; he is also the nephew of Penny Marshall. His two sisters, Lori and Kathleen, are also in entertainment...

  • Keir McFarlane
  • Michael Moore
    Michael Moore
    Michael Francis Moore is an American filmmaker, author, social critic and activist. He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, which is the highest-grossing documentary of all time. His films Bowling for Columbine and Sicko also place in the top ten highest-grossing documentaries...

  • Andrew Morahan
  • Jeffrey Obrow
    Jeffrey Obrow
    Jeffrey Obrow is a movie director and a professor at USC School of Cinematic Arts. He has also produced many music videos with Propaganda Films.-Filmography:* The Dorm That Dripped Blood * The Power * The Kindred...

  • Alex Proyas
    Alex Proyas
    Alexander "Alex" Proyas is a Australian film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for directing such films as The Crow, Dark City, I, Robot and Knowing. He is known for employing a stylish photographic techniques in his films, with dark overtones usually in a post-apocalyptic...

  • Paul Rachman
    Paul Rachman
    Paul Rachman is an American film director who directed the highly praised 2006 documentary on punk music American Hardcore which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released by Sony Pictures Classics. He is also one of the founders of the Slamdance Film Festival...

  • Mark Romanek
    Mark Romanek
    Mark Romanek is an American filmmaker, whose directing work includes feature films, music videos and commercials.He wrote and directed the critically acclaimed 2002 film One Hour Photo starring Robin Williams...

  • Stéphane Sednaoui
    Stéphane Sednaoui
    Stéphane Sednaoui is a French-American photographer, director and producer whose work includes music videos, art projects, photographic essays, portrait photography, fashion photography and photojournalism....

  • Dominic Sena
    Dominic Sena
    -Life and career:Sena was born in Niles, Ohio. He is of Italian-American heritage. His family hails from the town of Bagnoli Irpino, Avellino, Italy. As one of the founders of Propaganda Films, Sena worked primarily in music videos early in his career. Sena directed several of Janet Jackson's...

  • Simon West
    Simon West
    Simon West is an English-born film director. West started as a film editor with the BBC, then directed documentaries and commercials including many for Budweiser...

  • David Lynch
    David Lynch
    David Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound...


Partial filmography

  • The Blue Iguana
    The Blue Iguana
    The Blue Iguana is a 1988 crime film about a bounty hunter who is blackmailed into stopping the transfer of twenty million dollars from a Mexican tax paradise into the United States. The film was directed by John Lafia and stars Dylan McDermott, Jessica Harper, Pamela Gidley and James Russo...

    (1988)
  • Kill Me Again
    Kill Me Again
    Kill Me Again is a 1989 American thriller film directed by John Dahl and starring Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, and Michael Madsen. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer distributed the film.-Plot:...

    (1989)
  • Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted
    Industrial Symphony No. 1
    Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted is a short, avant-garde musical play directed by David Lynch, with music by Angelo Badalamenti and Julee Cruise.-Overview:...

    (1990)
  • Twin Peaks
    Twin Peaks
    Twin Peaks is an American television serial drama created by David Lynch and Mark Frost. The series follows the investigation headed by FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper , of the murder of a popular teenager and homecoming queen, Laura Palmer...

    (TV series, 1990–1991)
  • Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will?
    Daddy's Dyin': Who's Got the Will?
    "Daddy's Dyin'...Who's Got the Will?" is a US Southern-themed ensemble Comedy-drama. The independent film was released May 4, 1990.-Plot:Buford Turnover is suffering from advanced dementia, and it's only a matter of time before he dies...

    (1990)
  • Wild at Heart
    Wild at Heart (film)
    Wild at Heart is a 1990 American film written and directed by David Lynch, and based on Barry Gifford's 1989 novel Wild at Heart: The Story of Sailor and Lula. Both the book and the film revolve around Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune , a young couple from Cape Fear, North Carolina who go on...

    (1990)
  • Salute Your Shorts
    Salute Your Shorts
    Salute Your Shorts is an American comedy television series that aired on Nickelodeon from 1991–1992 and in reruns until early 1999. It was last rerun on Nickelodeon GaS from July through September of 2003....

    (TV series, 1991–1992)
  • Beverly Hills, 90210
    Beverly Hills, 90210
    Beverly Hills, 90210 is an American drama series that originally aired from October 4, 1990 to May 17, 2000 on Fox and was produced by Spelling Television in the United States, and subsequently on various networks around the world. It is the first series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise...

    (TV series, 1990–2000)
  • Madonna: Truth or Dare
    Truth or Dare (documentary)
    Madonna: Truth or Dare is a 1991 American documentary film chronicling the life of American singer-songwriter Madonna during her 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour...

    (1991)
  • Ruby
    Ruby (film)
    Ruby is a feature film, released in the United States on March 27, 1992, about Jack Ruby, the Dallas, Texas nightclub owner who shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald in the basement garage of a Dallas city police station in 1963. The film was directed by John Mackenzie and stars Danny Aiello , Sherilyn...

    (1992)
  • A Stranger Among Us
    A Stranger Among Us
    A Stranger Among Us is a film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Melanie Griffith, released in 1992. It tells the story of an undercover police officer's experiences in a Hasidic community. It was entered into the 1992 Cannes Film Festival....

    (1992)
  • A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica
    A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica
    A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica is a two-part documentary about the process of making the Metallica album , and the following tour. It was produced by Juliana Roberts and directed by Adam Dubin....

    (1992)
  • Candyman
    Candyman (film)
    Candyman is a 1992 horror film starring Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd and Xander Berkeley. It was directed by Bernard Rose and is based on the short story "The Forbidden" by Clive Barker, though the film's scenario is switched from England to Chicago. The film was scored by Philip Glass. The film was...

    (1992)
  • Fallen Angels
    Fallen Angels (TV series)
    Fallen Angels was an American neo-noir anthology television series that ran from 1993 to 1995 on the Showtime pay cable station and was produced by Propaganda Films. No first-run episodes were shown in 1994....

    (TV series, 1993–1995)
  • Hotel Room
    Hotel Room
    Hotel Room is a three episode 1993 HBO television series produced by David Lynch . Each drama takes place in the same New York City hotel room at different times .Barry Gifford wrote, and David Lynch directed, the first and third episodes; Jay McInerney wrote, and James Signorelli...

    (TV mini-series, 1993)
  • Red Rock West
    Red Rock West
    Red Rock West is a neo-noir film directed by John Dahl. The film, written by Dahl and his brother Rick, was shot in Montana and Willcox, Arizona. The film was well received at the prestigious Toronto Film Festival, but deemed a cable and direct-to-video product by Columbia Tri-Star, which owned...

    (1993)
  • Kalifornia
    Kalifornia
    Kalifornia is an American thriller/road film, directed by Dominic Sena and starring Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, David Duchovny, and Michelle Forbes. The film focuses on an aspiring writer and his photographer girlfriend who are traveling cross-country to research serial killers...

    (1993)
  • Dream Lover
    Dream Lover (1994 film)
    Dream Lover is a 1994 film, starring James Spader and Mädchen Amick. It was directed and written by Nicholas Kazan.-Plot:The movie opens on divorce proceedings involving Ray Reardon , a successful architect, and his first wife...

    (1993)
  • S.F.W.
    S.F.W.
    S.F.W. is a 1994 film directed by Jefery Levy. It is based on a novel by Andrew Wellman, and stars Stephen Dorff, Jake Busey and Reese Witherspoon, in one of her first lead roles.-Plot:...

    (1994)
  • Jason's Lyric
    Jason's Lyric
    Jason's Lyric is a 1994 romantic drama film, written by Bobby Smith, Jr., and directed by Doug McHenry. The film marks the directorial debut of McHenry, who co-produced the film with George Jackson...

    (1994)
  • Coldblooded (1995)
  • Canadian Bacon
    Canadian Bacon (film)
    Canadian Bacon is a 1995 comedy film which satirizes Canada – United States relations along the Canada – United States border written, directed and produced by Michael Moore, his only non-documentary feature...

    (1995)
  • Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
    Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
    Candyman 2: Farewell to the Flesh is the 1995 sequel to the horror film Candyman, an adaptation of the Clive Barker short story "The Forbidden". It stars Tony Todd, Kelly Rowan, William O'Leary, Bill Nunn, Matt Clark and Veronica Cartwright.-Plot:...

    (1995)
  • Barb Wire
    Barb Wire (film)
    -Cast:* Pamela Anderson Lee as Barbara "Barb Wire" Kopetski* Temuera Morrison as Axel Hood* Victoria Rowell as Dr. Corrina "Cora D" Devonshire* Jack Noseworthy as Charlie Kopetski* Xander Berkeley as Alexander Willis* Udo Kier as Curly...

    (1996)
  • The Portrait of a Lady
    The Portrait of a Lady (film)
    The Portrait of a Lady is a 1996 film adaptation of Henry James's novel The Portrait of a Lady directed by Jane Campion.The film stars Nicole Kidman, Barbara Hershey, John Malkovich, Mary-Louise Parker, Martin Donovan, Shelley Duvall, Richard E...

    (1996)
  • Sleepers
    Sleepers (film)
    Sleepers is a 1996 legal drama film written, produced, and directed by Barry Levinson, and based on Lorenzo Carcaterra's 1995 novel of the same name.-Plot:...

    (1996)
  • The Game
    The Game (film)
    The Game is a 1997 neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by David Fincher, starring Michael Douglas and Sean Penn, and produced by Polygram. It tells the story of an investment banker who is given a mysterious gift: participation in a game that integrates in strange ways with his life...

    (1997)
  • A Thousand Acres
    A Thousand Acres (film)
    A Thousand Acres is an American motion picture drama directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, and starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jason Robards....

    (1997)
  • An American Werewolf in Paris
    An American Werewolf in Paris
    An American Werewolf in Paris is a 1997 horror/comedy film about werewolves. It was directed by Anthony Waller and stars Tom Everett Scott and Julie Delpy...

    (1997)
  • More Tales of the City (TV mini-series, 1998)
  • Your Friends & Neighbors
    Your Friends & Neighbors
    Your Friends & Neighbors is a 1998 comedy-drama film written and directed by Neil LaBute and starring Amy Brenneman, Aaron Eckhart, Catherine Keener, Nastassja Kinski, Jason Patric, and Ben Stiller in an ensemble cast. This film was the first to be reviewed on the website Rotten Tomatoes...

    (1998)
  • Being John Malkovich
    Being John Malkovich
    Being John Malkovich is a 1999 American black comedy-fantasy film written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze. It stars John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, and John Malkovich, who plays a fictional version of himself...

    (1999)
  • Nurse Betty
    Nurse Betty
    Nurse Betty is a 2000 American comedy film directed by Neil LaBute starring Renée Zellweger as a sweet Kansas waitress who undergoes a nervous breakdown after witnessing her husband's murder, and starts obsessively pursuing her favorite soap actor....

    (2000)
  • Full Frontal
    Full Frontal (film)
    Full Frontal is a 2002 film by Steven Soderbergh, about a day in the life of people in Hollywood. The film, starring Catherine Keener, David Duchovny, Julia Roberts, Mary McCormack and David Hyde Pierce was shot on digital video in under a month using the Canon XL-1s...

    (2002)
  • Auto Focus
    Auto Focus
    Auto Focus is a 2002 American biographical film directed by Paul Schrader that stars Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe. The screenplay by Michael Gerbosi is based on the book The Murder of Bob Crane by Robert Graysmith....

    (2002)
  • Trapped (2002)
  • Adaptation.
    Adaptation.
    Adaptation. is a 2002 American comedy-drama film directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman. The film is based on Susan Orlean's non-fiction book The Orchid Thief through self-referential events...

    (2002)

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