Music Video Director!

My chosen music video director is Sanaa Hamri, who is a Moroccan American music video and film director. She is one of the few prominent female film and music video directors.

She has directed videos for Lupe Fiasco, Nicki Minaj, Lenny Kravitz, Joss Stone, Sting, Common, Raven-Symoné, Eric Benet, Amel Larrieux, Jay-Z, A*Teens, and Christina Aguilera.

Hamri has been described as intelligent, talented and versatile and I would say that was an accurate description of her looking at her background which tells how Hamri taught herself to use an Avid editing machine in 2000 and has never participated in a filmmaking course. Realising she had a talent for combining images together in order to tell a story, Hamri began making videos and approaching the music industry.

Hamri doesn't have a fixed style when it comes to directing, for example when it came to directing Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass" which Minaj stated herself for wanting the video to be 'colourful and cutesy' and then looking at Lupe Fiasco's "Words I Never Said" which contrasts with the style of 'Super Bass' and this shows her versatile directing style.