Clay Weiner

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Clay Weiner
Born1975 (age 48–49)
United States
Occupation(s)Film director, film producer, writer

Clay Weiner is an American director and writer of commercials, film and television.[1][2]

Life and career

Weiner grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Clay studied philosophy at

BlackBook.[citation needed
]

Many know Clay as MTV's "Intro Guy."[

D&AD and One Show Pencils, to Cannes Gold Lions and Clio Awards. [citation needed] He has worked with agencies such as Wieden+Kennedy, Carmichael Lynch, DDB Worldwide, Cutwater, Droga5, 72&Sunny, Mother, Adam&Eve, Ground Zero and Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. Clay later launched an animated campaign for MTV called "Puberty," which he also wrote, designed and directed. In addition to MTV, Clay has directed commercial films for Ray-Ban, Bud Light, Subaru, Facebook, Uber, Amazon, ESPN, Sonic, Axe, Slim Jim, Vonage, Hyundai, Liquid Plumber, Kraft, Xbox and Snickers. His Bud Light "Dude" campaign has had over 100 million views [citation needed
]

Clay's television directing credits include

Gemini Award nominee, Jenna Wright.[citation needed
]

Clay has written and produced two pilots for F/X and one for Adult Swim.[citation needed] He currently resides in New York City and Los Angeles.

Fred: The Movie

In 2010 Weiner’s first feature, Fred: The Movie, was released by Nickelodeon.[3] Fred is the first Hollywood feature to star a YouTube character, Fred Figglehorn. The character was created by Lucas Cruikshank and the screenplay was written by David A. Goodman, head writer of Family Guy. The film went on to be the highest watched TV movie of the year with a debut of 7.6 million views. It opened in the No. 8 spot, taking in £257,133 in the first week, despite being shown in over 243 cinemas.[citation needed]

Photography book

Weiner's photography book, TRY-ONs, was published in 2010. The book chronicles Weiner's exploration of identity as he personifies an eccentric array of real and imaginary characters. Designer and stylist Jenna Wright helped transform Clay into over 140 different people. The book won the 2011

D&AD Award for Photography.[4]

References

  1. ^ "A Clay that Fits No Mold" – STEP Magazine: Porterwrite.com
  2. ^ "Fred the Movie Is This Year's Biggest Cable Premiere" : Gigaom.com Archived August 25, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Filmmakers Explain Decision to Make Fred Movie". New York. December 8, 2009. Retrieved December 28, 2009.
  4. ^ Dandad.org

External links

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