Director, Jim Hosking’s comedy is unlike any other – brave, often absurd and always unforgettable. His ads for Comcast, Xbox, Aldi’s Stop and Smell The Roses series with BMF, Pepsi and Cadbury are daringly funny and brilliantly imaginative. Hosking is now on Sweetshop’s roster, which has signed him for international representation.
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Hosking’s directing career began with promos for MTV in the US and the UK before he took his flair for humour into making eye-catching commercials and surreal films.
He believes that a good film can be any kind of film, as long as it is a pure expression of something genuine. His first feature, The Greasy Strangler (2016), is both sweet and sad, a treatise on father-son relationships, and a cult-classic in the making about a grease-encrusted maniac who murders the innocent. The New York Times called it, “just maybe the weirdest movie ever.” Shot in LA, it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and won Best Comedy at the Empire Magazine Film Awards, as well as The Discovery Award at The British Independent Film Awards.
Jim’s second feature film An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn also premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018, and stars Aubrey Plaza, Jemaine Clement, Matt Berry and Craig Robinson. The Guardian reviewer, Peter Bradshaw, described it as, “an entirely ridiculous shaggy-dog story, a comedy salted with strangeness and seasoned with surreality… it is very funny, and the song about football referees is quietly amazing.”
Most recently Jim turned his attention to TV, and created Tropical Cop Tales for Adult Swim, a surreal, genre-bending, psychedelic take on the cop procedural and possibly the most bizarre show on the home of out-there TV.
Edward Pontifex, managing director at Sweetshop Australia, commented, “Jim’s work is utterly unique. Over the years he has managed to push the boundaries of comedy like no one else with his unusual characters in their absurd worlds. We are really looking forward to being involved in creating even more memorable campaigns with him.”
Hosking stated, “Hello everyone. I’m excited to join the team at Sweetshop. I love to make distinctive, memorable work with striking characters and unexpected humanity with some finely calibrated nuanced top-secret oddness. Luckily that’s exactly what Sweetshop want me to do, so hurrah for that.”
Watch Jim’s work here.
