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With a background in music, dance, and choreography, director Trish Sie brings a fresh, inventive, energetic approach to filmmaking. Her passion for playfulness and innovation characterizes her acclaimed signature style. Known for not taking ANYTHING too seriously, she brings humor and a whimsical approach to storytelling, characters, movement, timing, music, and space.
After a decade as a professional dancer, championship ballroom competitor and choreographer, Trish dove into filmmaking in 2006, when she created, directed, and produced her first official music video: “Here It Goes Again,” with her brother’s band, OK Go. After rehearsing on treadmills for ten days at her dance studio in Orlando, Florida, Trish shot the video in a single uncut take, using a friend’s borrowed camera.
That treadmill video earned Trish and the band a Grammy Award for best short-form music video, and since then, Trish’s other groundbreaking concepts and direction with the rock band OK Go have produced some of the most universally heralded music videos of all time.
Her most recent OK Go collaboration, “Upside Down & Inside Out,” was shot entirely in weightlessness aboard a plane that simulates zero-gravity. It racked up more than 47 million hits in its first week online, and has been praised by critics and fans alike as a truly groundbreaking work of filmmaking.
Success as a music video director led to commercial work for Trish. She’s shot ads for brands such as Levi’s, Haagen-Dazs, Sony, Old Navy, Dole, Carl’s Jr, Hunts, Big Lots, and more.
Her work has been honored and awarded by Smithsonian Magazine, Creativity Magazine, the Cannes Advertising Festival, and Saatchi & Saatchi’s New Director’s Showcase, among others.
She also writes and creates her own short films and concept videos. Her recent short films, NOT ALONE and BEING DENNIS, are enjoying success on the festival circuit, screening at BAM, Henson’s Puppets on Film, Atlanta Film Festival, LA Arthouse Film Festival, the NYC Indie Film Fest, and the LA Puppet Festival. Her newest short film, THE BIG BREAKUP, deals with America’s dysfunctional relationship with guns.
Trish is also a recurring creative collaborator and choreographer for the inventive, world-renowned dance company, Pilobolus.
Her first feature film, STEP UP ALL IN, was filmed in native 3D and hit theatres around the globe in 2014, grossing more than $90 million worldwide. According to The LA Times, “Sie packs in her exuberantly choreographed and staged dance scenes as tightly as beads on a necklace,” and The New York Times says her film “exudes the infectiousness of an old-fashioned movie musical.”
Trish went on to direct PITCH PERFECT 3, which came out December, 2017. The New York Times called it, “a fantastical buddy comedy,” and Variety touted it as “walking a divine line between snark and sincerity: The songs are hooky bliss, served up with a heavily italicized frosting of hip-twitching feminist ‘tude. It’s fast, it’s hella synthetic-clever, and it’s an avid showcase for the personalities of its stars. Fatally catchy.”
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AWARDS & RECOGNITION
Grammy Nominee for Best Short-Form Music Video — OK Go’s “Upside Down & Inside Out” (2017)
Smithsonian Ingenuity Award for music video work with OK Go (2016)
Cannes Lion Awards for S7 Airlines OK Go video, “Upside Down & Inside Out” — including Silver Lions for Excellence in Music Video and Film and Bronze Lion for Film Craft (2016)
Official Selection, “Being Dennis” — NYC Indie Film Fest, New York, NY (2015)
Winner, Best Short Film, “Being Dennis” — LA Arthouse Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA (2015)
Winner, Best Short Film, “Being Dennis” — Intendence Film Festival, Denver, CO (2015)
Cannes Lion Awards for the Google Chrome experiment, “All Is Not Lost” — including Gold Film Lion for Interactive Film, Gold Cyber Lion (Craft) for Best Video, Gold Design Lion for Typography, Silver Cyber Lion (Websites & Microsites) for Publications & Media, and Bronze Design Lion for Online Digital Design (2012)
Grammy Nominee for Best Short-Form Music Video — OK Go’s “All Is Not Lost” (2012)
Featured Director — Creativity Magazine (2008)
Featured Director — Saatchi & Saatchi: New Director’s Showcase, Cannes (2007)
Grammy Award for Best Short-Form Music Video — OK Go’s “Here It Goes Again” (2006)
Youtube Award for Most Creative Video — OK Go’s “Here It Goes Again” (2006)
Nominee for Best Music Video, MTV Europe’s Music Awards — OK Go’s “A Million Ways” (2006)
Blog
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July 14, 2026 Rhythm in Every Frame: How Directors Can Think Musically and Control the Pace of a SceneGreat directing has more in common with music than most people realize. Before actors speak their first line...
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July 11, 2026 Creative Burnout: What to Do When Your Inner Idea Generator Says “No”Every creative person eventually encounters the same unsettling experience: sitting in front of a blank page, staring at...
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July 2, 2026 The Anatomy of a Pitch: How to Sell a Crazy Idea to Producers Who Love Safe OnesEvery filmmaker has had that moment—the one where an idea arrives fully formed in your head and feels...
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June 17, 2026 Director + Actor: How to Get an Introvert Talking and Calm an Eccentric Performer in Five MinutesDirecting actors is often described as one of the most challenging aspects of filmmaking—not because actors are difficult,...
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June 1, 2026 Small Budget, Big Vision: How to Create Cinematic Magic with Minimal ResourcesOne of the biggest myths in filmmaking is that great cinema requires great budgets. It's an understandable misconception....
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May 5, 2026 Choreographing Chaos: How to Direct Complex Crowd Scenes Without Losing Your MindThere is a particular kind of panic that every director experiences at least once in their career: standing...
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May 3, 2026 From Viral Music Videos to Hollywood: How to Scale Your Creative Brand Without Losing Your VoiceEvery filmmaker dreams of growth. One project leads to another, opportunities become larger, budgets increase, and suddenly the...
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April 22, 2026 The Creative Business Plan: Why Every Modern Filmmaker Needs to Understand Marketing and DistributionFinishing a film feels like crossing the finish line. After months—or sometimes years—of writing, planning, shooting, editing, and...
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April 8, 2026 Don’t Take It Too Seriously: The Power of Humor and Improvisation on SetFilmmaking is serious work. There are budgets to manage, schedules to follow, deadlines to meet, and countless creative...
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March 11, 2026 When Props Come Alive: Turning Everyday Objects Into Powerful Storytelling ToolsSome of the most memorable moments in cinema are not defined by spectacular visual effects or elaborate sets....









