Akil Gibbons directed this commercial spot for Square on AREA15, a Las Vegas premiere immersive experiential venue where virtual reality, massive art installations, bars, restaurants, unique retail, and events coalesce to create a one-of-a-kind experience for visitors. This commercial look and feel drew inspiration from Akil’s favorite sci-fi and neon films homaging looks from “Blade Runner”, Belly, and 2001 Space Odyssey.

Akil directed Mastercard’s “One Billion and Beyond” campaign with CNN during the covid-19 lockdown in New York City.

The film won a Golden Anthem Award and profiles women of color entrepreneur’s success stories thriving during the covid-19 lockdown with the help of Mastercard and Grameen America.

Akil Gibbons directs “Changing Course” for Udemy.com, highlighting Angela and Alvin, who navigated shifts, overcame challenges, and embraced new possibilities through online learning and teaching with Udemy.

Angela Yu who taught Alvin how to code alongside her 2.5 million learners over her 7 years of teaching on Udemy. They both are living proof of the power of learning and developing new skills. And today, they’re paying it forward, helping people connect – to new futures, themselves, and to one another.

Akil Gibbons directed and produced this AT&T and CNN series “Forces of Change” profiling the inventor of the modern microphone, a black man from the Jim Crow South Dr. James West, who led a Black Scientific Renaissance at Bell Labs - considered the most influential corporate laboratory in the world.

In the 1970s, compelled in part by the Civil Rights Movement, AT&T developed a pipeline of technical talent from underrepresented groups that fed into the Bell Labs system. These pioneers made tremendous advances that altered the course of history, now referred to as the “Black Scientific Renaissance.”

Akil Gibbons directed films For Google For Start-Up’s initiative’s one of them being a profile on Filmmconnx, a start-up focused on integrating film productions crew work in Atlanta, GA which has become a mecca for Hollywood film productions.

For LinkedIn, Akil Gibbons directed their campaign “Open Mindedness”, gathering insight and morsels of wisdom from a range of real-life business people connecting together to learn and discuss diversity, equity, and inclusion on the LinkedIn platform.

When Vital Nsengiyumva was growing up in a small village in Rwanda in the 1990s, he didn’t always go to school. “I also grew up in the aftermath of genocide, and there was a lot of emotional stress,” he says. “Education was really like, you take it or leave it.” Many students also dropped out because they couldn’t afford school fees. Eventually, he ended up in a master’s program in Germany, and he started working as an engineer there.

In 2019, he signed up for a short MBA course on Udemy, the online learning platform. Chris Haroun, the instructor, was a former venture capitalist who originally developed the “MBA in One Day” class. A former VC and a Rwandan engineer joined forces to open the school, which teaches everything from computer science to welding.

For CNN and AT&T, Akil directed and produced the series “Forces of Change”, highlighting that too often some of the brightest people have been denied opportunity because of gender inequality, systemic racism, and structural barriers.

In the 1970s, the Cooperative Research Fellowship Program at Bell Labs provided financial support and mentorship to under-represented minorities and women who went on to become leaders in their fields. Today, AT&T carries on that legacy by partnering with nonprofit organizations, such as Black Girls Code, to diversify the tech industry.

Akil Gibbons directed Mastercard’s “One Billion Beyond” campaign about a local small farmer Jackson Eustus in Tanzania successful use of the Mastercard Farmer’s Network.

Like smallholder farmers in many parts of Africa, Jackson Eustus, had no way of knowing whether he was being paid accurately for his beans, coffee, cassava, and other crops.

Mastercard piloted the Mastercard Farmers Network (MFN), a digital marketplace for smallholder farmers that gives them improved access to buyers and increased price transparency, and it has since expanded to Tanzania, Uganda, and beyond.

VICE sits down for an exclusive and personal conversation with R&B artist Jhené Aiko. From her early start in the industry to the impact her family has had on her career, Jhené opens up about how life drives her creative process.

Jonathan Mannion is one of New York’s essential hip hop photographers. Since he started shooting in the 1990s—after working alongside Richard Avedon—he made his mark with Jay-Z’s first album cover for Reasonable Doubt. You could leaf through images of this photographer’s work and feel as though you’re going through a kind of hip-hop museum.

On this episode of 'VICE Talks Film,' we look back at the original 'Blade Runner' with the people revisiting the story in a new sequel: 'Blade Runner 2049.' Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Jared Leto, and director Denis Villeneuve told VICE about the first time they saw the 1982 film, and what it's like to try to make a film that lives up to the game-changing Hollywood classic.