Best Tabletop Directors & Foodfilm Directors
The list of the 20 best tabletop directors from all over the world
Important explanation
Please kindly notice that the list is made in random order. Thats mean that all this name of tabletop directors,foodfilm directors, higspeed lovers listed below in our perception are equal. Its not possible to choose one of them as the best one. All of them got diffrent style and aproch to his work.
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Ronald Koetzier
Ronald Koetzier is a freelance Director / DOP with an extremely refined visual style and technique. Shooting amazing and spectacular food projects all over the world. Mastering many complicated SFX tricks and techniques. He specialises in working with local production-company’s and crew’s ....
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Foodfilm / Michael Roulier & Philippe Lhomme
Michael Roulier and Philippe Lhomme are food film directors. They also investigate other fields such as cosmetics and textures. The identity of their visuals is simple but sophisticated, at the border of an experimental approach. -
Jerzy Dytkiewicz
Jerzy Dytkiewicz is a Tabletop Director and Food FIlm Director. He specializes in tabletop commercials and food films. He has got a head full of great ideas. Based in Warsaw [ Poland ], working worldwide. Driven by ideas and innovation, transforming your insights into impactful movies connecting... -
Stef Viaene
Stef Viaene studied Animation Film, Photography and Fine Arts. Stef evolved through his long career, from Experimental Animation film, through Visual Arts, towards Film. Enriched by these experiences, Stef became one of Europe's most renowned and skilled table-top directors. His authentic style... -
Olaf van Gerwen
Short version: I make ads for food and drink brands. Longer version:I started in the industry at a young age. I entered the ad business as an offline editor. Soon enough, having learnt the art of story telling through editing, I became a director of narrative commercials. It was then a natural... -
Avi Karpick
For over 25 years, Avi Karpick has worked worldwide as a cinematographer anddirector on hundreds of large-scale and award winning advertising campaigns. After many years of shooting live action, he chose to specialize in food and liquids tabletop, working with top food stylists,... -
NIck Sawyer
Nick Sawyer started his directing career in the 90’s in music videos whilst living in the United States; he worked with the likes of Cypress Hill, Gwen McCrea, Alice in Chains, building up a sizable music video catalogue as a director. During this period Nick paralleled his career as a director... -
Sergio Bosatra
Italian director Sergio Bosatra developed his distinctive style over the course of 9 years working as a first AD alongside top international directors. Sergio began directing commercials in 2011, combining his technical mastery with a captivating, emotionally-charged approach to visual... -
Etienne Proulx
Etienne Proulx is an internationally acclaimed tabletop specialist.He has over 28 years of set experience in film, commercials and advertising photography, the last 15 specializing in liquid and beer styling. His stunning work can be seen in film and television, on stage, in print, and all type... -
Will van der Vlugt
Will van der Vlugt is a Dutch director & photographer whose career spans over 40 years & active as tabletop Director/DP for the advertising industry. -
Max Losito
Max Losito was born in Italy in 1972. Food has been part of his life from the beginning when, at the age of seventeen, he started his career as an assistant in his father Giuseppe’s still photography studio. During his training, Max was constantly surrounded by many cooks and a multitude of... -
Steve Giralt
Steve Giralt is a very passionate Miami, FL born cuban photographer / Director, and Visual Engineer who likes to smile a lot and is fun at parties. Although he comes from a family of engineers, he studied photography at Rochester Institute of Technology. While at RIT he didn’t sleep very often,...
Definition
Tabletop is the part of the commercial industry. Its describe works with highspeed/slow-motion cameras such as Phantom, special robots - motion control like Bolt and customize rig. The Tabletop director is mostly connected with food but it can be all kind of shoots including demo products and other that involved slowmotion and another technic to catch the moment of beauty invisible with the bare eye. Very often the tabletop director or foodfilm director works with special lenses like a macro lenses, Frazier lenses or endoscope lenses. Of course not all shoot need highspeed camera Phantom, (especially foodfilm) some of them can be done by using regular movies cameras such as Alexa or Red. Tabletop directors are commercial artists whose goal is to make mundane foods look so irresistible that people want to eat the TV.