Darren Doane

Darren Doane (born 1972) is an American filmmaker and music video director.^[1] In 2007, Darren formed a new commercial, music video and branded content production company called LEVEL4 with Executive Producer Josh Karchmer. LEVEL4 has produced and edited projects for a client list that includes Toyota, Hurley/Nike, Saatchi & Saatchi, Atlantic Records, JBL and Universal Records.^[2] He started his early music video work with Ken Daurio and directed several early Blink-182 music videos.

Prior to directing commercials and music videos, Darren also directed two live action short film adaptations of the Malibu Comics superheroes Hardcase (a six-minute music video style promo starring British kickboxer Gary Daniels) and Firearm (a 35-minute-long movie which served as a prequel to the actual comic, and came as a VHS packaged alongside specially ordered copies of the comic's #0). In fact, in Hardcase #1 there's a single panel in-joke referencing a "D. Doane" as being the director of "Hardcase: The Movie."

Music videos directed

• Aborted - "Dead Wreckoning"
• A Dozen Furies – "The Cycle"
• A18 - "Broke The Blue"
• AFI – "He Who Laughs Last"
• AFI – "Third Season"
• A Life Once Lost - "Vulture"
• Allister - "A Lotta Nerve"
• All That Remains – "The Air That I Breathe"
• American Head Charge - "Cowards"
• As I Lay Dying – "The Darkest Nights"
• A Static Lullaby - "Lipgloss And Letdown"
• Atreyu – "Ain't Love Grand"
• Audio Adrenaline – "Get Down"
• Authority Zero - "One More Minute"
• Baumer – "Take What's Mine"
• Blink-182 – "Dammit"
• Blink-182 – "Josie (version 2)"
• Blink-182 – "M+M's"
• Bleed The Dream - "Legends Die"
• Brian Posehn - "Metal By Numbers"
• Brotherhood Creed - "Helluva"
• Buckcherry – "Sorry"
• Buckcherry – "Don't Go Away"
• Cephalic Carnage - "Endless Cycle Of Violence"
• Cephalic Carnage - "Dying Will Be The Death Of Me"
• Chiodos – "The Undertaker's Thirst For Revenge Is Unquenchable (The Final Battle)"
• Chokebore – "It Could Ruin Your Day"
• City Sleeps – "Not An Angel"
• Colbie Caillat – "The Little Things"
• Crisis - "Blood Burden"
• Dance Hall Crashers - "Go"
• Darkest Hour – "The Sadist Nation"
• Dead Poetic – "August Winterman"
• Demon Hunter – "One Thousand Apologies"
• Deftones – "Hexagram (version 1)"
• E-Town Concrete - "Mandibles"
• Every Day Life - "Salt Circles"
• Every Time I Die - "Ebolarama"
• Every Time I Die – "Kill the Music"
• FC Five - "Jaded Hope"
• FC Five - "Come To The End"
• Four Letter Lie - "Feel Like Fame"
• Freya – "As The Last Light Drains"
• Funeral for a Friend – "This Years Most Open Heartbreak"
• Ginuwine - "Same Old Story"
• Glisten - "Spotlight"
• Grade - "Termites Hollow"
• Guttermouth – "Whiskey"
• Hellogoodbye – "Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn"
• Ill Nino - "God Save Us"
• It Dies Today – "A Threnody for Modern Romance"
• It Dies Today – "Severed Ties Yield Severed Heads"
• Kottonmouth Kings - "Dog's Life (version 2)"
• Living Sacrifice – "Reject"
• Jason Mraz Feat Colbie Caillat – "Lucky"
• Jason Mraz – "I'm Yours"
• Jason Mraz – "Make It Mine"
• Jimmy Eat World – "Lucky Denver Mint"
• Joey + Rory featuring Zac Brown Band – "This Song's for You"
• Matt Nathanson - "Come On Get Higher"
• Mercy Fall - "I Got Life"
• MxPx - "Doin' Time"
• MxPx – "Chick Magnet
• MxPx – "Doing Time"
• MxPx – "Move to Bremerton"
• Nile – "Execration Text"
• Nile – "Sarcophagus"
• Nonpoint – "Bullet With A Name"
• Norma Jean – "Face:Face"
• Open Hand – "Tough Girl"
• Poison The Well – "Botchla"
• Pennywise – "Same Old Story"
• Pennywise - "Homesick"
• Project 86 - "My Will Be A Dead Man"
• Propaganda - "Excellent"
• Pulley - "Cashed In"
• Revelation Theory - "Slow Burn"
• Saves The Day – "Shoulder To The Wheel"
• Scars Of Tomorrow - "Suffocating Words"
• Scary Kids Scaring Kids - "The Only Medicine"
• Shinedown – "Devour"
• Shinedown – "Sound Of Madness"
• Shinedown - "Bully"
• Shinedown - "Cut the Cord"
• Shinedown - "State of My Head"
• Sick of It All – "Potential For A Fall"
• Sinai Beach - "To The Church"
• Skillet - "Whispers In The Dark"
• Snapcase - "Typecast Modulator"
• Snapcase - "A Synthesis of Classic Forms"
• Snowdogs - "Drive"
• Spitalfield - "Secrets In Mirrors"
• Spring Heeled Jack USA - "Jolene"
• Stars Align – "Don't Bring Me Down"
• Stavesacre - "An Eclipsing"
• Stavesacre - "It's Beautiful (Once You're Out Here)"
• StoneRider - "Juice Man"
• Strife - "One Truth"
• Student Rick – "Falling For You"
• Supertones - "Supertones Strike Back"
• Supertones - "Perseverance Of The Saints"
• Supertones - "Little Man"
• The Beautiful Mistake - "On Building"
• The Black Maria - "Betrayal"
• The Classic Crime - "The Coldest Heart"
• The Escape Engine – "This Jagged Alibi"
• The Forecast - "And We All Return To Our Roots"
• The Human Abstract - "Crossing The Rubicon"
• The Number Twelve Looks Like You – "Like A Cat"
• The Promise Ring - "Emergency! Emergency!"
• The Promise Ring - "Why Did We Ever Meet?"
• This Moment - "Beatific Vision"
• Thursday – "Cross Out the Eyes"
• Uncle Kracker – "Nobody's Sad on a Saturday Night"
• Uncle Kracker – "Smile"
• Underoath – "When the Sun Sleeps"
• Unearth – "Giles"
• Unearth – "Sanctity of Brothers" (treatment)
• Unwritten Law - "Holiday"
• Voodoo Glow Skulls - "Steady As She Goes"
• Zac Brown Band – "Toes"
• Zac Brown Band - "Highway 20 Ride"
• Zac Brown Band - "Free (Live)"
• Zac Brown Band featuring Alan Jackson - "As She's Walking Away"
• Zac Brown Band - "Colder Weather"
• Zac Brown Band featuring Jimmy Buffett - "Knee Deep"

Longer films directed

(selective)

• Godmoney^[1] (1999)
• Ides of March (2000)^[1]
• 42K^[1] (2001)
• Black Friday^[1] (2002)
• The Battle for L.A. (2004)
• Collision - Collision: Christopher Hitchens vs. Douglas Wilson ^[3] (2009)
• Van Morrison – Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl: The Concert Film (2009)
• Van Morrison – To Be Born Again – documentary of the live Astral Weeks concerts^[4] (2010)
• Unstoppable with Kirk Cameron (2013)
• Saving Christmas with Kirk Cameron (2014; Doane also starred)
• The Free Speech Apocalypse (2015)
• Stonewall (2015)

References

External links

• LEVEL4 – Darren Doane official website & blog
• Darren Doane at the Internet Movie Database
• List of Music Videos – Music Video Database
• Doane Interview – Interview with Doane on tlchicken.com
• Darren Doane on Vimeo – Personal Vimeo Page