FACTS & FICTIONS
The Norman Brothers

KC & Kipp Norman were born into the sanctuary of a small, bucolic, Wisconsin town. They spent long summer car-rides improvising co-hosted “radio shows” into a handheld tape recorder from the backseat of their mother’s Pontiac.

The duo learned to overcome creative adversity early when their first real critical success, an entry into a national gradeschool story writing competition, was stripped of the first place medal due to a minor rules infraction (there was a word limit?). Shedding their callow ways, an adolescent resurgence culminated in their 1993 piece de resistance - a re-edited VHS tape of “Top Gun” that explored the moral ambiguities inherent to US arms dealings in the oil rich middle east. Kipp’s band supplied the sound track.

KC studied visual arts at Arizona State University and was making his name as a painter in New York City when Kipp graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in creative writing. The brothers immediately began collaborating on motion picture projects. Work they have directed, produced and/or edited has played around the world, on big screens and small, in festivals and online. Their short comedy “Audience Award Winner” was selected to premier at the “Chicago International Film Festival” in 2008. In early 2009, they launched Elephant Filmworks with executive producer Peter Williams.

Currently, they direct television commercials and viral projects for brands and agencies around the globe, while continuing to cultivate ideas for short and feature films, music videos, poems, stories, paintings, deep regrets and brilliant successes.

They both enjoy pizza.

Ultimately, they would like to be known as versatile directors of great stories well told.

--E. Moretti, Buenos Aires, 2010