Brett Sullivan is a London based Australian filmmaker. Born in Sydney, Australia, 1971, he was one of the early adopters of computer graphics, writing a book at age 19, 'Desktop Video' and subsequently lecturing on emerging technologies at NSW University, Sydney University and The Australian Film Television Radio School. Sullivan freelanced in motion graphics before forming production company Steam Motion and Sound with Julian Chow in 1996. Steam established a UK office in 2003 with partner Clayton Jacobsen.

Sullivan has directed and produced music videos/TV specials for Phil Collins, Natalie Merchant, Michael Buble, Ben Folds, Katherine Jenkins, Gnarls Barkley, Lenny Kravitz and Eric Clapton. International commercials and campaigns for Madonna, REM, Linkin Park, Flaming Lips, Alicia Keys, Seal, Jason DeRulo, Josh Groban, Bruno Mars, Jill Scott, Alfie Boe, Roland Villazon, Lenny Kravitz, Regina Spektor, Justice, My Chemical Romance, Robert Plant, Nickelback, David Gray, Muse, KD Lang, Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rihanna, Josh Radin, Ray LaMontagne, Plan B. Other commercial and branding work includes Vodafone, Pepsi, Reebok, Orange, Adidas, Ikea, Coca-Cola.

He has directed and produced filmed theatrical productions in the West End, Broadway, Germany and Australia for Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Oliver, Wicked, Dirty Dancing, The Lion King, Mary Poppins, Sister Act, Jersey Boys, Love Never Dies, Spring Awakening, Buddy Holly, Ghost, Richard III, Betty Blue Eyes, Shrek and Warhorse.

Sullivan is a co-founder of Adstream

Adstream

Adstream, is global advertising technology company based in London, operating across 25 countries.-Overview:Adstream provides a variety of solutions and services to advertisers, agencies, production agents, publishers and broadcasters to assist with the production, management and distribution of...

 (2001), digital media and asset management company for advertising agencies. It is located in 17 countries.

Selected Music Work

• Director - Phil Collins
  Phil Collins
  Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, pianist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for British progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist....
  
   videos - Going Back, Heatwave
• Director - A Conversation With Phil Collins TV Special
• Director - Natalie Merchant
  Natalie Merchant
  Natalie Anne Merchant is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She joined the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs in 1981 and left it to begin her solo career in 1993.-Early life:...
  
   - minidoc - Leave Your Sleep
• Director - Natalie Merchant Live Session - Man In The Wilderness
• Director - Michael Bublé
  Michael Bublé
  Michael Steven Bublé is a Canadian singer. He has won several awards, including three Grammy Awards and multiple Juno Awards. His first album reached the top ten in Canada and the UK. He found worldwide commercial success with his 2005 album It's Time, and his 2007 album Call Me Irresponsible was...
  
   videos - Cry Me A River, Crazy Love
• Director - A Conversation with Michael Bublé
  Michael Bublé
  Michael Steven Bublé is a Canadian singer. He has won several awards, including three Grammy Awards and multiple Juno Awards. His first album reached the top ten in Canada and the UK. He found worldwide commercial success with his 2005 album It's Time, and his 2007 album Call Me Irresponsible was...
  
   TV Special
• Director - Katherine Jenkins
  Katherine Jenkins
  Katherine Jenkins is a Welsh mezzo-soprano. She is a classical-popular crossover singer who performs across a spectrum of operatic arias, popular songs, musical theatre and hymns.-Early life and education:...
  
   video - Angel
• Producer -Eric Clapton
  Eric Clapton
  Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...
  
   EPK and A Conversation With Eric Clapton TV Special
• Director - Donkeyboy
  Donkeyboy
  Donkeyboy are a pop band from Drammen, Norway, formed in 2005. The band consists of Cato Sundberg , Kent Sundberg , Peter Michelsen , Thomas Drabløs , and Alexander Garborg Ågedal .-Biography:Donkeyboy were signed to Warner Music after an employee came across their music on MySpace...
  
   video - Ambitions
• Director - Rumer
  Rumer (musician)
  Rumer is the professional name of the British female singer-songwriter Sarah Joyce . Her stage name was inspired by the author Rumer Godden. Rumer's voice has been described by The Guardian as being reminiscent of Karen Carpenter...
  
   - Slow - International Version
• Director - Ben Folds EPK
• Director - Regina Spektor
  Regina Spektor
  Regina Ilyinichna Spektor is a Russian American singer-songwriter and pianist. Her music is associated with the anti-folk scene centered in New York City's East Village.-Early life:...
  
   EPKs & Commercials
• Director - Gnarls Barkley
  Gnarls Barkley
  Gnarls Barkley is an American soul duo comprising Danger Mouse and Cee Lo Green. Their first studio album St. Elsewhere was released in 2006; along with its first single "Crazy". Both single and album were a major commercial success and have been noted for their large sales by download...
  
   video - Crazy - Graphics version
• Creative Director - International TV Campaigns for Madonna
  Madonna (entertainer)
  Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...
  
   'Confessions on a Dancefloor', 'Hard Candy', 'Confessions Live'
• Creative Director - International TV Campaigns for Michael Bublé
  Michael Bublé
  Michael Steven Bublé is a Canadian singer. He has won several awards, including three Grammy Awards and multiple Juno Awards. His first album reached the top ten in Canada and the UK. He found worldwide commercial success with his 2005 album It's Time, and his 2007 album Call Me Irresponsible was...
  
   'Call Me Irresponsible', 'Caught In The Act', 'Crazy Love', 'Christmas'.
• Creative Director - International TV Campaigns for R.E.M.
  R.E.M.
  R.E.M. was an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry. One of the first popular alternative rock bands, R.E.M. gained early attention due to Buck's ringing, arpeggiated guitar style and Stipe's...
  
   - Live, Accelerate, Collapse Into Now
• Creative Director - International TV Campaigns for Green Day
  Green Day
  Green Day is an American punk rock band formed in 1987. The band consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt, and drummer Tre Cool...
  
   - American Idiot, Bullet In A Bible, 21st Century Breakdown, Awesome as F**K
• Creative Director - International TV Campaigns for Red Hot Chili Peppers
  Red Hot Chili Peppers
  Red Hot Chili Peppers is an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1983. The group's musical style primarily consists of rock with an emphasis on funk, as well as elements from other genres such as punk, hip hop and psychedelic rock...
  
   - Stadium Arcadium
• Director - My Chemical Romance
  My Chemical Romance
  My Chemical Romance is an American alternative rock band from New Jersey, formed in 2001. The band consists of lead vocalist Gerard Way, guitarists Ray Toro and Frank Iero, and bassist Mikey Way and have a diverse sound incorporating elements of punk, emo, glam metal, and progressive rock...
  
   UK TV Campaign - Winner Best Music TV Commercial UKMVA's 2010
• Producer - Robert Plant
  Robert Plant
  Robert Anthony Plant, CBE is an English singer and songwriter best known as the vocalist and lyricist of the iconic rock band Led Zeppelin. He has also had a successful solo career...
  
   Band of Joy UK TV Campaign - Nominated Best Music TV Commercial UKMVA's 2010
• Producer - Lenny Kravitz
  Lenny Kravitz
  Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and arranger, whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock, soul, R&B, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk and ballads...
  
   - Stand - Graphics Video

Selected Theatrical Work

Film Director:

• Love Never Dies - in production - Universal Pictures - Worldwide
• Les Misérables
  Les Misérables (musical)
  Les Misérables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz , is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo....
  
   - Commercials/EPK - UK
• Million Dollar Quartet
  Million Dollar Quartet
  "Million Dollar Quartet" is the name given to recordings made on Tuesday December 4, 1956 in the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. The recordings were of an impromptu jam session among Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash. It was arguably the first...
  
   - Commercials/Promo - UK
• Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Tour - Commercials/EPK - UK/Spain/US
• Oliver!
  Oliver!
  Oliver! is a British musical, with script, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens....
  
   - Commercial/EPK - UK
• Phantom of the Opera - Commercial/EPK - UK
• Wicked
  Wicked (musical)
  Wicked is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman. It is based on the Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West , a parallel novel of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and L. Frank Baum's classic story The Wonderful Wizard...
  
   - Commercials/EPK - Germany/UK
• Dirty Dancing
  Dirty Dancing
  Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romantic film. Written by Eleanor Bergstein and directed by Emile Ardolino, the film features Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in the lead roles, as well as Cynthia Rhodes and Jerry Orbach...
  
   - TV Documentary, Commercials, EPKs - UK/US/Germany/Australia
• The Lion King
  The Lion King
  The Lion King is a 1994 American animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 32nd feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series...
  
   - Commercial/EPK - UK/US
• Ghost The Musical
  GHOST The Musical
  Ghost The Musical is a musical with book and lyrics by Bruce Joel Rubin and music and lyrics by Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard.Based on the hit 1990 romantic drama film of the same name, the musical had its world premiere at the Manchester Opera House in Manchester...
  
   - Commercial/EPK - UK
• Betty Blue Eyes
  Betty Blue Eyes
  Betty Blue Eyes was a musical with music by George Stiles, lyrics by Anthony Drewe, and book by Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman. The story was based on the Alan Bennett screenplay, A Private Function, and was set during a celebration of the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Prince Philip.-...
  
   - EPK - UK
• Mary Poppins
  Mary Poppins
  Mary Poppins is a series of children's books written by P. L. Travers and originally illustrated by Mary Shepard. The books centre on a magical English nanny, Mary Poppins. She is blown by the East wind to Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane, London and into the Banks' household to care for their...
  
   - Commercials/EPK - Australia
• Jersey Boys
  Jersey Boys
  Jersey Boys is a jukebox musical with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe and book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. It is a documentary-style musical, based on one of the most successful 1960s rock 'n roll groups, the Four Seasons...
  
   (London, Broadway) - Commercials/EPK - UK/US
• Love Never Dies- EPK, Video Clip - UK
• Buddy Holly - EPK - Germany
• Spring Awakening
  Spring Awakening
  Spring Awakening is a rock musical adaptation of the controversial 1892 German play of the same title by Frank Wedekind. It features music by Duncan Sheik and a book and lyrics by Steven Sater. Set in late-19th century Germany, it concerns teenagers who are discovering the inner and outer tumult of...
  
   - Commercials/EPK - UK
• Richard III at the Old Vic - Commercials/EPK - UK

Film Producer

• The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall - Cinema Release, Home Video - Universal Pictures - Worldwide
• Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Concert Live The O2 - Cinema Release, Home Video - Universal Pictures - Worldwide
• Sister Act - Commercials/EPK - UK/Germany
• War Horse
  New London Theatre
  The New London Theatre is a West End theatre located on the corner of Drury Lane and Parker Street in Covent Garden, in the London Borough of Camden...
  
   - Commercial - UK/US
• Batman Live - Commercial

Other

Director & Producer - Special When Lit

Special When Lit

Special When Lit is a feature length documentary film about pinball written and directed by Brett Sullivan..The film is produced by Steam Motion and Sound.-Production:...

, Feature Documentary 2010, Best Documentary United Los Angeles Film Festival, Nominated Best Documentary Raindance, Official Selection at Calgary international Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival, Atlanta Docufest, Hot Springs Documentary Festival, Buffalo Niagara International Film Festival, Bronx International Film Festival, Indianapolis international Film Festival, New York United Film Festival, London United Film Festival, Wisconsin Film Festival, Tallahassee Film Festival, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

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