Barbara Drake has lived in The United Kingdom, The United States of America, Kenya, Indonesia, Hong Kong and New Zealand and she has travelled extensively worldwide. Barbara speaks French, is conversant in Spanish, and some rusty Swahili.

Barbara Drake has worked extensively in Advertising and Motion Pictures. A short list of associated projects follows:

COMMERCIALS in New Zealand October/November 2009

Her debut commercial in New Zealand was as Production Designer for Melanie Bridge of The Sweet Shop.
Filmed on location in Egypt, late 2009.

COMMERCIALS in the United States 1991 – 2008

As Production Designer for Leslie Dektor, Commercial Director of the Year 1993 and 2001.
Commercials include: Levi’s, IBM, American Express, American Airways, Bank of America, Sony, Seven-Up, Doctor Pepper, Southern California Edison, Saturn, Mitsubishi, Dean Whitter, Minute Maid, Hampton Inns, Snackwells, General Motors, AT&T, USPS, TCI, Aetna, Bounty, numerous dot coms, etc

As Set Decorator for Leslie Dektor: Hewlett Packard commercial filmed in China, Egypt, France, Czech Republic, San Francisco and New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles

As Production Designer for Paul Dektor.
Commercials include Disney, Agillion, Shopnow.com, Babe Ruth, Aetna, Wachovia, Publix, State Farm, Betty Crocker, Hampton Inn, Minute Maid and Jones Sausage,

for Gartner Film. Director Ray Dillman: AT&T & PSA

for Morton Jankel Zander. Director Annabel Jenkins: South Western Bell

for Mirella Films. Director Michael Cerny: Chevrolet

for Green Dot. Director Brent Thomas: Campbells

As Set Decorator.

for Joe Pytka: Pepsi

COMMERCIALS in the United Kingdom

Set Decorator and Art Director for commercial directors in London, including
Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, David Bailey, Hugh Hudson, Steve Barron, Graham Rose,
Roger Woodburn, Barry Myers, Michael Berkofksy, Paul Weiland, Robert Bierman,
John Lloyd, Kevin Billington, James Dearden, Jack Gold, Gerry Poulson
and Robert Young

FEATURE FILMS and TV to 2009

as Production Designer:

NZ Pavilion
Video Installation for New Zealand’s Pavillion at World Expo, Shanghai, 2010.
Director Steve Le Hood
Story!Inc. Filming during 2009.

The Pretender: A Political Satire
TV, New Zealand 2008
Interviewed on National Radio about my work on this series.

Wenderhome
TV Pilot, New Zealand 2008
Director:Greg Page,
Flying Fish Productions

Irene in Time (to be released)
Director: Henry Jaglom.
Filmed on location in Los Angeles 2007

Good Sharma (to be released)
Director: Suri Krishnamma
Filmed on location in New York and India

as Set Decorator:

Home for the Holidays 1995
Director: Jody Foster.
This film was considered for an Oscar nomination for Art Direction/Decoration 1996

Diggstown 1992
Director: Michael Ritchie

American Friends 1991
Director: Tristram Powell

Shadow of China 1990
Director: Mitsuo Yanagamichi

High Spirits 1988
Director: Neil Jordan

As Buyer:

Full Metal Jacket 1987
Buyer (Thailand)
Director: Stanley Kubrick

As Art Director/England:

Hero
a cinema short with Ray Winston

Tower of Babel
a cinema short filmed in London

As Photographic Stylist:

Barbara Drake is an accomplished fashion and advertising stylist for London based photographers, including Barry Lategan, Clive Arrowsmith, David Bailey, Derek Coutts, Terry Donovan, David Montgomery, Lester Bookbinder, Brian Duffy, David Thorpe, Bruce Brown and Julian Cottrell.

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