Igor Jadue-Lillo is equally at home as a cinematographer on feature films and on other art forms of storytelling.
The native Chilean attended the London Film School, from which he graduated with masters in film. He immediately started working in music videos and commercials; soon, he met Garth Jennings of Hammer & Tongs and began collaborating with Mr. Jennings and producer Nick Goldsmith. Together, they shared the Best International Video of the Year Award for Bentley Rhythm Ace's "Theme from Gutbuster." He was honored with the Creative & Art Award for Best Cinematography in a Music Video, for Blur's "Coffee & TV," also teamed with Hammer & Tongs.
Mr. Jadue-Lillo earned a British Independent Film Award nomination for Best Newcomer (Off-Screen), for his cinematography of writer/director Jamie Thraves' feature The Low Down. He reunited with Hammer & Tongs to shoot the feature The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; among his other films are Kirsten Sheridan's Disco Pigs and Rodrigo Garcia's Passengers, starring Anne Hathaway.
Among the other directors that Mr. Jadue-Lillo has collaborated with on commercials are David Kellogg, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, Frederik Bond, Bennett Miller, and Alejandro González Iñárritu. Products that he has shot commercials for range from PlayStation to Dr. Pepper.
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