Trey Fanjoy

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Trey Fanjoy is a filmmaker and music video director.

Fanjoy has been responsible for over 150 major label music videos. Her work has been seen on CMT, VH-1 and MTV. She has directed hit clips such as Keith Urban’s Somebody Like You, Raining on Sunday, and You're My Better Half, Alan Jackson’s Remember When and It's Five O’Clock Somewhere (featuring Jimmy Buffett) and Lee Ann Womack’s I May Hate Myself In the Morning. Her work has received multiple CMA, ACM, Billboard and CMT nominations. In addition she was named CMT’s Director of The Year.

Her client roster includes: Reba McEntire, Rascal Flatts, George Strait, Steve Earle, Martina McBride, Dolly Parton, Brooks & Dunn, Kid Rock, Jerry Lee Lewis, Loretta Lynn,Taylor Swift,and Jack White of the White Stripes. In addition to topping the country charts, her hit video for Five for Fighting’s 100 Years stayed in the VH-1 Top Twenty Countdown for 18 weeks. Her video for the international hit, Whole Again, by British pop sensation Atomic Kitten reached number one in the UK, Japan and countless countries worldwide.

She continues to garner nominations and accolades, most recently receiving two Video of the Year nods for Miranda Lambert's Kerosene and Lee Ann Womack’s I May Hate Myself In the Morning at the 2006 Academy of Country Music Awards. The highly praised Kerosene was also been nominated in multiple categories at the 2006 CMT Awards.

Fanjoy has worked with numerous film studios on soundtrack tie-ins. Among the films she’s been involved with are: Paramount Studios’ How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days starring Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson, Walt Disney Pictures’ The Rookie with Dennis Quaid and the Jennifer Lopez thriller Angel Eyes.

With a background and interest in documentary filmmaking, she wrote and produced Riding the Rails, with legendary West Texas singer/songwriter Joe Ely, which featured Bruce Springsteen. Fanjoy also wrote, produced and directed a documentary for the Frist Center for the Visuals Arts on legendary rodeo tailor, Manuel, which was narrated by Linda Ronstadt. She is set to direct the full-length documentary, funded by the Country Music Hall of Fame, on the musically influential Border Radio movement titled Outlaw X.

Her clear vision and on-set calm were captured in two highly rated CMT Networks’ “Making of the Video” specials. The first of these for the Reba McEntire smash Somebody and the other for Trip Around the Sun with Martina McBride and Jimmy Buffett. Her video for "Tim Mcgraw" won the Breakthrough Video of the Year on CMT for 2007.

Of Fanjoy, country sensation Keith Urban has said, “She brings such a great vibe into her work, organic yet stylish. Trey has a wonderful spirituality about her and she has a great eye for detail. She truly loves art and the weirdos who make it and we love her for it.”

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