ACE NORTON

Ace Norton is an artist and filmmaker born and raised in Venice, California. Ace attended the University of Southern California in their film production program, and shortly after graduating, started a small production company out of his house with a number of his closest film school friends called, Commondeer, then shortly thereafter signed to Partizan.

Since then, Ace has directed over eighty music videos, television commercials, and short films. His prolific body of work includes campaigns for Honda, Coca-Cola, Adidas, Gap, Dolby, T-Mobile and Vans, as well as music videos for Foster the People, Jennifer Lopez, Death Cab for Cutie, Scissor Sisters, Norah Jones, Bloc Party, Simian Mobile Disco, Regina Spektor, Aesop Rock and Sebastien Tellier.

He won Best Film and Best Director at the Milan Fashion Film Festival as well of a slew of others at Berlin and La Jolla. He was nominated for “Director of the Year” at the MVPA for his video “Hustler,” by Simian Mobile Disco. This also won “Video of the Year” at the ViMus Music Video Awards and is listed as one of the “Top 100 Music Videos of All Time” by NME. His work for Death Cab for Cutie was nominated for a Grammy. His films and videos have also been shown at the Los Angeles Film Festival, SXSW, and festivals in Berlin, Venice, Japan, and England.

Clip Pictures represents Ace for the Japanese territory.