Jake Nava

Jake Nava is a music video and commercial director. He grew up in Hackney, London, England and later moved to the United States. [cite news |title=Hip-hop video targets folly of gun culture |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/nov/03/urbanmusic.musicnews |work=The Guardian |date=2006-11-03 |accessdate=2008-04-15 ]

The 2003 video "Crazy in Love", which Nava directed for Beyoncé, was nominated for the MOBO Best Video award [cite news |title=Women to the fore in Mobo nominations |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/women-to-the-fore-in-mobo-nominations-578644.html |work=The Independent |date=2003-09-02 |accessdate=2008-04-15 ] and won the Cads04 Music Vision Award sponsored by Music Week [cite news |title=Beyonce video rocks expanded Cads event: UK's Nava scoops top award for US-commissioned clip |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-21811273_ITM |work=Music Week |date=2004-06-19 |accessdate=2008-04-15 ] .

In 2007 he was nominted for MTV's Best Director award for the Beyoncé & Shakira video "Beautiful Liar" [cite news |title=MTV sets the stage for the battle of the pop princesses |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/mtv-sets-the-stage-for-the-battle-of-the-pop-princesses-460812.html |work=The Independent |date=2007-08-09 |accessdate=2008-04-15 ] .

Nava's video "Badman", featuring Roll Deep and produced in collaboration with the Metropolitan Police to support the anti-gun crime Operation Trident, was named as video of the year by MTV [Scroll down to #49 cite news |title=The Media 50: Newsmakers of 2007 |url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/the-media-50-newsmakers-of-2007-767421.html |work=The Independent |date=2007-12-31 |accessdate=2008-04-15| ] .

References

External Links

* [http://mvdbase.com/tech.php?last=Nava&first=Jake Jake Nava] at the Music Video Database