Camille Summers-Valli
Music video director
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Camille Summers-Valli is a French-Australian artist, director and photographer.[1][2] Her work includes music videos and commercials.[3][4] She has won a UK Music Video Awards (UKMVA) for her music video direction and was nominated for a Cannes Lions award for her New York Times campaign.[5][6]
Early life
Summers-Valli was born in Thailand and raised in Nepal to documentary filmmaker parents. She graduated from Central Saint Martins in London in 2014 with a degree in Video Art and was selected to participate in the Bloomberg New Contemporaries exhibition of 2014 with her work Black Mesa.[7][8]
Career
Music Videos
Summers-Valli has directed music videos for artists such as Haim, BadBadNotGood, Låpsley, and METTE.[9][10][11] She was awarded a Yellow Pencil for Direction in both the Music Video and Long Form categories for "MAMA'S EYES" with METTE at the 2024 D&AD Awards.[12] Other works include "Relationships" (2025), co-produced by Rostam Batmanglij and Danielle Haim, featuring actor Drew Starkey, and BadBadNotGood’s "Beside April".[13][14]
Commercials
In 2022, Summers-Valli was awarded D&AD Pencils for Art Direction and Editing for The Truth Takes a Journalist for The New York Times, directed What's Changing About Fashion's Relationship to the Body? for Vogue, and created commercials for brands including Hermès and Jean Paul Gaultier.[15][16][17] In 2024, she directed The Audition and The Date for Coach’s "Unlock Your Courage" campaign, starring Elle Fanning and Charles Melton, and a campaign for On featuring Zendaya.[18][19] In 2024, she was signed to MJZ for commercial representation in the US, UK, and the Netherlands.[7]
Documentaries
In 2015, Summers-Valli made her directorial debut with the documentary feature, Big Mountain Diné Bikéyah, which focuses on the Navajo community's struggle to preserve their ancestral lands against corporate and governmental encroachment.[2]
Personal life
Summers-Valli is currently in a relationship with actor Charles Melton. In January 2026, it was announced that she was pregnant with their first child.[20] On March 9, 2026, Melton confirmed the birth of their child via Instagram.[21]
Select filmography
| Year | Title | Contribution | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Big Mountain Diné Bikéyah | Director and producer | Documentary |
| 2019 | Still I Rise | Director | Short film |
| 2020 | Swim Hunt Run | Director | Short film |
Selected music videos
| Year | Title | Artist/Band | Roles | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | "MAMA'S EYES" | METTE | Director | |
| "VAN GOGH" | METTE | Director | ||
| 2021 | "Beside April" | BadBadNotGood | Director | |
| 2019 | "My Love Was Like The Rain" | Låpsley | Director |
Awards and nominations
| Year | Result | Award | Category | Work | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Won | UK Music Video Awards | Video of the Year | METTE - "MAMA'S EYES" | [22] |
| Nominated | Best Director | [23] | |||
| Nominated | Best Pop Video – International | [5] | |||
| 2022 | Won | Ad Age | Director to Watch | [16] | |
| Won | AICP Awards | Web Film | The Truth Takes a Journalist | [24] | |
| Won | D&AD Awards | Web Film | [15] | ||
| Won | Clio Awards | Web Film | [24] | ||
| Won | Webby Awards | Advertising, Media & PR | [25] | ||