Full Name Cole Walliser Role Filmmaker | Name Cole Walliser | |
Born July 15, 1981 (age 42) ( 1981-07-15 ) Steveston, British Columbia, Canada Occupation Music video director, film director Education University of British Columbia | ||
Cole Walliser Director's Reel 2016
Cole Walliser (born July 15, 1981) is a Canadian filmmaker and music video director. He has directed videos for Miley Cyrus, P!nk, and Katy Perry.
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Life and career
Cole Walliser was born in Steveston, British Columbia and grew up in Vancouver. He is an alumnus from the University of British Columbia, with a B.A. in Psychology.
Walliser began his interest in filming by making skateboarding videos at the age of 14. He also made a short film about the first day of high school which is still used by his high school Hugh Mcroberts. He decided to pursue directing as a career and moved to Los Angeles at the age of 24. His work began with shooting professional dancer friends on a pro-bono basis.
In 2008, one of Walliser’s dancer friends, who was a choreographer for Miley Cyrus at the time, asked him to be involved in a dance music video, which led him to direct two Miley and Mandy dance crew videos; M&M Cru with a U Battles Step Up 2 and M&M Cru Final Dance Battle, challenging Jon Chu's and Adam Sevani’s ACDC (aka Adam/Chu Dance Crew). These highly publicized music videos, touted as “the biggest online dance battle in YouTube history” featured a number of celebrity cameos and received worldwide media attention, including a feature on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. The online dance battle culminated in a performance at the 2008 Teen Choice Awards, which Walliser also directed.
In 2009, Cole directed the opening video for P!nk's Funhouse World Tour. He also directed a 30-minute documentary On Tour with P!nk, and four of her music videos (Please Don't Leave Me, Funhouse, Leave Me Alone (I’m Lonely), Mean), which played during the Funhouse Summer Carnival Tour and can be found on P!nk’s ‘Greatest Hits So Far’ DVD.
In 2010, Cole Walliser edited two episodes of the dance webseries, The LXD: The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers.
Subsequently, Walliser collaborated with Katy Perry and directed the story line that played throughout her 2011 California Dreams World Tour. Walliser was entrusted to edit together footage of Katy Perry's wedding for her intimate performance at the 2011 Grammy Awards.
Walliser frequently collaborates with Lexus, USA for their marketing initiatives through Walton | Isaacson advertising agency.