Charley Stadler - Director/Songwriter  

After receiving a Masters Degree in visual communications, Charley Stadler shot for magazines such as Elle, Vogue and a Max Cover, for brands such as Big Star Jeans, Marco Polo and Diesel and for bands like Metallica.  Charley then transitioned into commercial directing and London‘s "Campaign Magazine“ declared him "One of the world‘s hip new directors".  To date, Charley has worked with stars like Sean Connery, Sharon Stone and Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. and directed more than 200 commercials for the biggest brands all over the world, including international and global campaigns for Allianz, Chupa Chups, Toyota, Smart, Snickers, McDonalds, Ford, Honda, Adidas, Coca Cola and Sberbank, main sponsor for Sochi as well as the biggest global campaign to date for Microsoft. He has received well over 100 international awards, including those from N.Y. Festivals, London Int'l Awards, Cannes, Bessies Canada, Icad Ireland, Mobius, International Epica, Montreux and Arabic Ad Festival and Art Directors Club Swiss and Germany.  The Head of TV of BBDO International calls him "Germany‘s Golden Boy" and Who's Who lists Charley in its book of most influential people. 
Amongst his many awards, Charley's 2011 Porsche Design commercial starring Billy Zane and Karel Roden won eleven International Gold medals.  In 2013, his quirky Frothy Beast commercial for Cadbury via Fallon in London garnered over two and a half million clicks within two days.  Shots Magazine in the UK again recognized Charley's Swiss based Delizio Coffee commercial, which just won Silver at the International EPICA Awards. His latest off the wall project for „Woody“ Woodstock Burbon/Coke starring Pamela Anderson for the New Zealand market has made headlines in the news. 
Charley directed/co-wrote the $15 Million feature film "Dead Fish", starring Oscar nominees Gary Oldman (Dracula, 5th Element) and Terence Stamp (The Limey, Superman), as well as Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting,The Full Monty, James Bond) and Spanish actress Elena Anaya ( Almodovar's - In the Skin I live in).  UK chart topping, Groove Armada scored the film while Fashion designers Paul Smith and Ozwald Boteng created the wardrobes.
Charley now focuses on social films, as well.   He directed eight US Pentagon psychological awareness films for the education of Arabic youth that were aired in the 22 United Arab Emirates. He also directed and DOP'd a social awareness music video clip for the Russian band Triangle Sun against drug abuse.  After much controversy and resistance to the subject matter, MTV aired the clip as a social statement campaign worldwide.
Charley has worldwide commercial representation. He is partner to Gap Films, one of the most established  commercial production companies in Germany since 1998. And UTA represents Charley for feature films.  
In addition to directing Charley added songwriting to his second professional pillar.  To date, he has produced and written two Albums, Soulmate Sublime and Portraits, with Electronic Rock/Pop artist - The Maneken.  He wrote many songs and yrics for various other young artists. Charley also started production of his third album with two time MTV Ukraine winner and songwriter Shamala Tamrazova aka Rebel Love.


Ben Howard returns with his 4th album, Collections From The Whiteout, produced alongside Aaron Dessner (The National). The foreboding darkness that coated Ben’s second record I Forget Where We Were and thinly veiled its follow up Noonday Dream, isn’t so evident on Collections. These are songs written from headlines scanned, or news stories scrolled past, providing inspiration for a selection of vivid narrative snapshots – the death of amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst (Crowhurst’s Meme); Russian fraudster Anna Sorokin (Sorry Kid); the man who stole and crashed a plane in Seattle (The Strange Last Flight Of Richard Russell); and the dismembered body a friend of his father found in a suitcase floating along the Thames (Finders Keepers). Alongside them, the personal anecdotes from the same scattered period living between Paris, Devon and Spain. Yussef Dayes features, as does Kate Stables (This Is The Kit), James Krivchenia (Big Thief), Kyle Keegan (Hiss Golden Messenger), and Dessner. Thomas Bartlett, St. Vincent’s go-to pianist, and Rob Moose, a long-standing arranger of strings for Bon Iver, are also present. Long-term guitarist to Ben’s band, Mickey Smith (A Blaze of Feather), remains a reassuring constant. It’s a sonic adventure that continues this nagging suggestion that Ben is one of the UK’s most inventive and naturally talented songwriters. CFTW is his latest opus, and arguably his most fully realised to date.

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