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Sammy Rawal

Sammy Rawal is a Toronto-based director and digital artist whose commercial work fuses bold colour, choreography, fashion casting, and high-impact VFX.

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Production company & representation
Believe Media
Production company · US · verified Jul 2026
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Recent press & creds
Prism Prize Special Achievement Award
Prism Prize · 2022 · award
UK Music Video Awards nomination(s)
UK Music Video Awards · award
Berlin Music Video Awards nomination(s)
Berlin Music Video Awards · award
Selected clients
AdidasAXEChanelConverseDoveEquinoxHudson's BayKraft SinglesLululemonOlay

Bio & background

Sammy Rawal is a Toronto-based director and digital artist whose commercial work fuses bold colour, choreography, fashion casting, and high-impact VFX. Brand campaigns include Converse (including Converse x Keith Haring), Reebok, Lululemon, Adidas, SoulCycle, Equinox, Twitter, Dove, Olay, Chanel, Hudson’s Bay, AXE, and Kraft Singles. Standouts include Equinox’s 2019 Pride film “Life’s A Ball,” a ballroom-centered piece Adweek called the most show-stopping Pride campaign of that year; Hudson’s Bay spring fashion film “A Dress For Every You”; Kraft Singles “Square It (feat. Kelis)” for Johannes Leonardo, a camp, movement-led spot starring Honey Balenciaga with cloning and telekinesis VFX; SoulCycle Pride 2021 mixed-media work; and Dan Levy’s See with Love eyewear social campaign. Craft signatures include multiplicity/cloning, pattern and rhythm, GIF/cinemograph thinking, digital collage, and beat-driven image-making rooted in fashion photography and ballroom. Parallel live-tour and broadcast visuals include Lizzo, Cardi B, and Elton John. Work has shown at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Nuit Blanche, and BFI Southbank. In 2022 he received the Prism Prize Special Achievement Award; MV work has been nominated at the UK Music Video Awards, Berlin Music Video Awards, and the Juno Awards.

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Awards
  • Prism Prize Special Achievement Award
    Prism Prize · 2022
  • UK Music Video Awards nomination(s)
    UK Music Video Awards
  • Berlin Music Video Awards nomination(s)
    Berlin Music Video Awards
  • Juno Awards nomination(s)
Juno Awards
Press
  • Visual Artist & Director Sammy Rawal Joins Westside
    Glossy · 2023
  • The Directors: Sammy Rawal
    Little Black Book · 2023
  • Sammy Rawal: The Director Who Made Kraft Singles Sexy
    The Stable · 2022
  • Sammy Rawal Squares Off with Kelis & Kraft in Hyper-Stylised Fantasy ‘Square It’
    Directors Notes · 2022
  • Not So French ‘Soda Pop’ – Sammy Rawal
    Promo News · 2021
  • Equinox Pride ‘Life’s A Ball’ cited among most show-stopping 2019 Pride campaigns
    Adweek (via roster bios) · 2019
  • Sammy Rawal roster biography
    Scheme Engine
  • Sammy Rawal Joins Westside for Photography Representation
    Little Black Book
  • About / client and exhibition overview
    sammyrawal.com