Part of the National Safety Council’s “Stop Everyday Killers” campaign out of Energy BBDO in Chicago, this piece titled “Avi's Story” shows a father, Avi, remembering Michael, his son who died of an opioid overdose.
As part of this remembrance, we see a human face representing Michael carved into a pill. This pill is placed with other “face pills” on a “Prescribed to Death” memorial paying tribute to the victims of the Opioid crisis. The wall consists of 22,000 such pills–the number of people who die in the U.S. each year due to a prescription opiod overdose.
Tucker Walsh of m ss ng p eces directed “Avi's Story.
Credits
Client National Safety Council Agency Energy BBDO, Chicago Andres Ordonez, chief creative officer; Cinzia Crociani, Meg Farquhar, Michael Shirley, Alejandro Juli, creative directors; Dane Canada, art director; Brynna Alyward, copywriter; Hung Vinh, lead designer; Jaehyuk Choi, Erin Knott, Ramiro Silva, designers; Matt Scoville, executive producer; Shobin Mathew, sr. producer; Mitch Monzon, studio operations; Daniel Kuypers, music producer; Blue Smith, project manager; Larry Gies, chief strategy officer. Production m ss ng p eces Tucker Walsh, director. Editorial Flare Casey Cobler, editor; Kendall Fash, director of postproduction; Srah Krohn, sound engineer. Color/Finishing The Mill Luke Morison, head of color; Sean Jamin Clutcher, artist; Natalie Ksiazek, producer.
The 2024 Christmas ad from John Lewis department stores has arrived. This year’s much anticipated TV commercial, continuing the Xmas tradition of John Lewis, is the two-minute “The Gifting Hour" created by Saatchi & Saatchi UK and directed by Francois Rousselet via production house Riff Raff.
In the ad, the heroine, Sally, has left it a little late to find the right gift for her sister this year and races into a John Lewis store at closing time. Falling through a rack of dresses, she enters a fantastical world. We first see her stumbling out of the wardrobe in the attic of her childhood home and from here we are taken on a whimsical journey through her memories as she searches for the ultimate present, against the clock.
Returning to the store and back to reality she has found the perfect gift, ready and wrapped. Sally then heads outside and has a special moment with her sister who will be the gift’s recipient. As they walk away we see her sister reflected in the John Lewis window as the child from her memories.
