Malcolm Venville

Malcolm Venville is a photographer and director of commercials, feature films and music videos. Venville has published four works of photography: Lucha Loco (Therapy 2006) is a collection of Lucha Libre wrestler portraits. His monograph Layers (Spine 2003) documents Venville’s career as an art and advertising photographer, Dressed to Kill (Rizzoli 2012) invites readers into the jazz age Fashion of the 1920’s, and The Women of Casa X (Schilt 2013) explores the lives of elderly sex workers in Mexico City. Venville has directed television campaigns for companies such as Nike, Xbox, Volkswagen, Google and Guinness. Much of his work has been awarded, with campaigns receiving Lions at Cannes, Clio Awards, ANDY Awards, Grandy, the AICP’s Award of Overall Excellence and Emmy nominations. Venville’s first feature, 44 Inch Chest, stars Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, John Hurt and Tom Wilkinson, and was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Seville Film Festival. Keanu Reeves, Vera Farmiga and James Caan star in Venville’s second feature, Henry’s Crime. He’s also directed short films including Remembering Sister Ruth and Silent Film.