Nino Del Padre

Music Video and Commercial Director Nino Del Padre launched his videography business in 1991, shooting video of weddings and corporate events, basing his operations in a closet in his apartment where he was born in Springfield, MA. That was just a few years before the Internet and advances in computers opened up a world of opportunities for visually and technologically inclined entrepreneurs, and Del Padre was happy to jump on board. Del Padre's career was inspired and motivated by music video's of the early to mid 1990s citing directors David Fincher Samuel Bayer as well as filmmaker Oliver Stone. Mark Romanek's work was very influential to Del Padre. One of Romanek's notable videos was for the Nine Inch Nails song "Closer". The video is heavily inspired by the Brothers Quay film "Street of Crocodiles", It is also one that the Museum of Modern Art has added to its permanent collection. Del Padre experimented with creating short movies and music video's in the early 1990s and started