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Oxley and Williams

Andrew Oxley and David Williams are an award-winning directing duo. Having been shortlisted two years running for the prestigious Virgin Media Shorts competition, they’ve had short films touring cinemas nationwide with regular screenings on Bravo TV.

Specialising in the observational genre, with both documentaries and promotional films under their belt, Andrew and David have a unique ability to engage an audience. They offer a distinctive and powerful aesthetic through their innate interest in championing the ordinary.

Recent clients include The British Toilet Association, NHS and Bike Shed Theatre, as well as continuing their own brand of oddly curious documentaries.

Making the difference	Sundays	Men Loos and Number Twos	Five Ways
White English Men

Making the difference

Director: Oxley and Williams

Directors comment This short toured cinemas for a year as part of Virgin Media Shorts and won the Audience Award at the Two Short Nights Film Festival. “We wanted to celebrate the value of the tea break and did so by filming conversations with various tea break connoisseurs. This was all about taking something seemingly ordinary and mundane and turning it into something interesting, humorous and... more

Sundays

Director: Oxley and Williams

Directors comment “We wanted to sum up the 'Day of rest' in a deliberately idyllic way and then offset it with one man's darker, alternative, existential take, just to question the whole ‘romantic notion’ of Sundays. As with all of our documentary work, the interviews were real and un-scripted and this is a good example of how we take everyday conversations and place them in a coherent and... more

Men Loos and Number Twos

Director: Oxley and Williams

Directors comment “In the UK particularly, it’s considered rather taboo to talk about visiting the toilet yet, strangely, we noticed a lot of very unusual and well decorated facilities that were often in complete contrast to the rest of the décor in the building. So we set about unearthing this strange fascination with the toilet. This short is from a longer documentary showing the results of... more

Five Ways

Director: Oxley and Williams

Directors comment This is a promo commissioned by the NHS to introduce a new mental health practice. The brief was to demonstrate the ‘Five Ways’ to health that doctors are both championing and using themselves in their everyday lives. In order to create the feeling of positivity, we used archive footage to create the right atmosphere without directly telling the viewer how to engage in it. This... more

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Mazda digital launch
Jonathan Coffin Producer, Syzygy "When they approached the brief, Commercials Unlimited showed immediately that they understood the convergence of media formats; they passionately believe – as we do – that the web as a medium is no longer the poor relation to television. With our high profile pan-European product launch for Mazda2 it was critical that we engaged a production company with the... more