Alex Topaller and Dan Shapiro are Grammy Award winning filmmakers and founders of the New York-based, design-driven, production company Aggressive.
Technique agnostics by nature, they focus on story before seamlessly blending performance, design, visual effects, and technology to produce disruptive, emotionally impactful work for some of the world’s biggest brands and artists. Their experiential and commercial work includes projects for The Beatles, Alicia Keys, Michael Jackson, Pharrell, Amazon, Google, Boeing, Honda, Intel, among hundreds of others. Their pioneering experiences and activations have been exhibited at SXSW, Global Expo 2022 Dubai, The Concours d’Elegance at Pebble Beach, The UN General Assembly 2022, NYC, Bloomberg New Economy Forum, Singapore, and more.
The pair earned many awards and nominations since formation, including Grammy, AICP Next, MTV VMA, ADC and Communication Arts awards. Their work has been featured across the globe as Vimeo Staff Picks, Behance features and festival showcases, as well as publicized by The New York Times, WIRED, American Cinematographer, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Creativity and NOWNESS among dozens of other publications.
Alex Topaller & Dan Shapiro will present the session ‘From Feature Films to Virtual Production and Immersive Storytelling’
