Trish
Sie
MUSIC VIDEOS
Commercials
Short Film
FEATURE FILM
Bio
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.”
Feature film
Pitch Perfect 3
Universal Pictures, 2017
Step Up All In, 3D
Summit/Lionsgate 2014
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)