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Amazon Prime has put up its latest holiday ad, which shows an imam and a Catholic priest meeting for the first time. It was made in-house. Via Adweek: A quick glance at any news ticker or social media feed might lead one to conclude that ours is a world split by class, race, nationality and […]
GS&P creates “Poverty Line Prices” campaign for Tipping Point Community to show people what shopping feels like for the very poor. Via Adweek: One in 10 Bay Area families (about 788,000 people in all) live below the poverty line. To raise awareness about this massive dissonance, San Francisco agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners took over […]
Lucian Read’s beautiful shot documentary The Stand at Standing Rock, features water protectors from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Via MotherJones: Read’s latest short film, Mni Wiconi: The Standing at Standing Rock, turns a camera on the plight of Native Americans, a group that has been neglected and wronged perhaps more than any other in […]
GoPro has just launched its first scripted tv ad, which will roll out globally as part of its largest campaign yet, aimed at creating 1.4b+ impressions. Via Adweek: For years, GoPro has taken a user-centric approach to its advertising, packaging submitted content for TV spots that have run everywhere from YouTube to the Super Bowl. […]
“Ella” is a short film that tells the story of Ella Havelka, the 50-year-old Australian Ballet’s first indigenous ballet dancer. Via Broadsheet: When Ella Havelka was accepted into the Australian Ballet in 2012, as the company’s first Indigenous dancer in its 50-year history, it attracted a huge amount of positive media nationwide. Havelka herself was […]
Short film “Love, Dad” is shot in Manshiyet Nasir, a location of epic poverty near Cairo, and is about fatherly love in a narrative of sacrifice. Via Short of the Week: The film is shot in Manshiyet Nasir, a location of epic poverty near Cairo where over 60% of the city’s waste is processed. 25 […]
In its post election ad, AirBnB unveils its Community Commitment. All users must now sign this nondiscrimination pledge. Via Adweek: A diverse group of Airbnb hosts and staff representing various races and age groups appear in this minute-long film, “Accept,” which touts the service’s recently introduced Community Commitment. Poignant in its own right, the spot […]
A Jeep ad for Veteran’s Day features Old Faithful, WWII-era vehicle that was retired and awarded a Purple Heart designation. Via Adweek: The spot, which aired on Jeep’s social media channels this morning, pays tribute to “Old Faithful,” a WWII-era vehicle that was retired and awarded a Purple Heart designation after leading the United States […]
A trio of friendly Texan lawyers have decided to sing a ditty about pot, legalisation, and hefty fines, particularly regarding cooking stuff with it. Via TIME: Waco, Texas lawyers Will Hutson and Chris Harris want to help out their fellow Texans with some friendly advice when it comes to getting high—legally. In a beautifully harmonized […]
Things get strange for a chicken in this great short film by director Leonid Shmelkov, titled “Ohen’ Odinokiy Petuh”. We suspect that its popular English title is a mistranslation, but via Short of the week: Despite the somewhat unwanted imagery its, I suspect slightly mistranslated, title might put in your mind, Leonid Shmelkov’s Very Lonely […]