Director Oliver Green joins Curious Film’s roster

Curious Film has announced the addition of Oliver Green to the directing roster.

Green has worked in advertising for nearly 20 years. If he hasn’t seen it all he’s seen a lot.

He has worked in New Zealand at Mojo, Colenso BBDO and Shine. In Australia he’s worked at BMF and LDN at LOWE, Saatchi, digital agency Hyper, 18 Feet and Rising and his last London gig was creative partner at Naked London. Green has also freelanced (stolen stationery) all over the world including Singapore, New York, South Africa and Hungary. He made the rise through the ranks from junior copywriter to senior creative and to creative director.

Green has written 10,000s of ads and made…100s. He’s written every type of ad there is. The walking spokesperson, the talking spokesperson the walking and talking spokesperson, the product is the punchline, the one that looks like it was made in the 70s, famous people being hilarious, famous people being mildly funny, famous people being bummers, ones with abused animals that make grannies cry, the ones where you hypnotise people and make them fight the ghosts of their fathers (that’s a genre), ones where people get punched in the balls, talking dog ones, ones where cars drive ‘on a closed road with professional driver’, arty ones that make not much sense, and even been given a writing nod by D&AD for writing the voice over in one of those meaningful sounding voice over ones!

Green has won golds, silver, bronzes and woods at Axis and Award, been told his dog was the best in show at Epica, had work applauded at Cannes (and won the D&AD thing for writing – the voice over was meaningful).

Over the last 24 months, Green has been on a sabbatical from advertising. But not the kind of sabbatical where you rest and do nothing – the kind of sabbatical where you go all out and get shit done.

He started Blow Me Balloons.

Says Green: “Like Hallmark for hellhound miscreants.”

He’s a founder and a creative director of interiors company Feathr.com.

Says Green: “Unboring your walls.”

He has written two books that you can buy on Amazon: The A to Z Of Fuckin’ Everything “It’s bonafide wankerpedia”, and, You Can’t Give Vodka To A Baby And Other Parenting Myths “Use this if you want your kids on Jerry Springer.”

He had a go on the stand-up comedy circuit.

Says Green: “You should come and see me if you think a grown man sharing descriptions of what it’s like having an essentially useless penis is funny.”

And he is, most recently, the founder and creative director of NeverLand, a limited edition magazine. “It’s either do this magazine or arson things.”

After two years away from writing ads he’s coming back to advertising to direct ads and he’s joining the roster at Curious.

Says Green: “I’d like to come back if you’ll have me.

“I’m unbelievably excited to be joining Curious and working with Noonan, really looking forward to getting busy. I want to make work that has a good chance of snatching at the zeitgeist and affecting popular culture. I’m happiest trying to make people laugh and even happier when people actually laugh. I’ve been in this game for a lot of years and seen a lot of great ideas turn to shit and seen some shit ones turn out great – and I reckon I know why. I’m amping to work with creatives to pull the best out of every script because I know what it takes to get a script through the gauntlet, sold and ready to shoot.”

Says Matt Noonan, producer, Curious Film: “I’ve known Oliver for 20 odd years. I love that Oli wants to do this now. It’s a sweet and rare combination to have the experience, the talent and the desire.”

Green and Noonan are standing by the fax machine waiting for your scripts… but if you email Curious someone will probably walk over and hand the scripts to them.

Contact Matt Noonan at noonan@curiousfilm.com or by phone AUS +612 8565 5000 or NZ +649 380 7880.