A female refugee sits on a couch openly discussing the atrocities she faced in her homeland as she now has moved to New Zealand. Sitting on the other end of the couch and listening intently is another woman whom we assume is a journalist or perhaps a counselor.
The camera then circles around to reveal that the other woman, her face battered and bruised, has too been abused, enduring the same domestic violence atrocities in her home country of New Zealand.
A supered message across the bottom of the screen reads, “Domestic violence is not a women’s issue. It’s a human rights issue.”
An end tag informs us that it’s Women’s Refuge Appeal Week in New Zealand, accompanied by contact info, including a toll-free phone number.
“Human Rights” was directed by Sam Holst of The Sweet Shop in Auckland for Saatchi & Saatchi, Wellington, N.Z. Holst was one of the helmers featured in this year’s SHOOT New Directors Showcase.
The Saatchi team included creative director Tim Hall, associate creative director Rodd Martin and producer Anna Kennedy.
Lynnette Gordon produced for The Sweet Shop. The DP was Ian McCarroll.
Editor was Tim Mauger of The Sweet Shop.
Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance
Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.
The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.
"This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."
The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."
And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.
Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.
Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.
Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."
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