Tanja Rusi is a Creative Director & Filmmaker
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Iā€™m on the right, producer and photographer Nathalie 'Nats' Mountain is on the left and sandwiched between us is make-up artist Elie Maalouf. We're somewhere in the Mojave Desert shooting an advertising campaign for British luxury travel agency Carrier.

I am an experienced creative director with a BA Honours degree from the University of Arts London in Communication Design, specialised in typography, moving image and video. I co-founded Onerva Pictures in 2019 with my sister, filmmaker Inka Rusi. In addition to the many aspects of film production I have extensive experience in art directing editorial content, global campaigns, storyboarding and scriptwriting. I am also a voracious reader with a love of quality long form journalism, literature, cinema, travel and contemporary art.

The A-team was my favourite TV show as a kid growing up in New York. Each member of the team was a completely unique personality and very different, but together they were unstoppable. That, in a nutshell, is my inspiration for successful creative collaboration and direction: Pick the most awesome people, as creative and as diverse as possible, challenge each other, inspire each other, bring your own ideas to the table and most of all, HAVE FUN.

Some of my commercial work is also featured on THE-DOTS.

'I LOVE IT WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGETHER.'

- Colonel John 'Hannibal' Smith, The A-Team