Noam Murro of Biscuit Filmworks directed this two-minute PSA which opens with what looks like a budding young romance but turns into a tragic illustration of abuse, fear and pain as the woman initially being wooed is instead forced into slavery, As we see this human trafficking victim’s nightmare unfold, it’s interrupted by the message that President Abraham Lincoln ended slavery.
We then see a Lincoln-like character approach the woman, symbolizing a challenge to viewers to declare “I’m With Lincoln,” a campaign to combat this tragic ongoing present-day form of slavery.
Creative came out of San Francisco agency barrettSF for client Made In a Free World, a non-profit organization founded by Justin Dillon who co-produced the piece.
“One of the main reasons we started barrettSF was to work with people like Justin Dillon, and with organizations like Made in a Free World. This was a dream project from the beginning. We just hope it makes a difference.” said Jamie Barrett, founder of barrettSF and creative director/copywriter on the job.
Stage and Film Actor Tony Roberts Dies At 85
Tony Roberts, a versatile, Tony Award-nominated theater performer at home in both plays and musicals and who appeared in several Woody Allen movies โ often as Allen's best friend โ has died. He was 85.
Roberts' death was announced to The New York Times by his daughter, Nicole Burley.
Roberts had a genial stage personality perfect for musical comedy and he originated roles in such diverse Broadway musicals as "How Now, Dow Jones" (1967); "Sugar" (1972), an adaptation of the movie "Some Like It Hot," and "Victor/Victoria" (1995), in which he co-starred with Julie Andrews when she returned to Broadway in the stage version of her popular film. He also was in the campy, roller-disco "Xanadu" in 2007 and "The Royal Family" in 2009.
"I've never been particularly lucky at card games. I've never hit a jackpot. But I have been extremely lucky in life," he write in his memoir, "Do You Know Me?" "Unlike many of my pals, who didn't know what they wanted to become when they grew up, I knew I wanted to be an actor before I got to high school."
Roberts also appeared on Broadway in the 1966 Woody Allen comedy "Don't Drink the Water," repeating his role in the film version, and in Allen's "Play It Again, Sam" (1969), for which he also made the movie.
Other Allen films in which Roberts appeared were "Annie Hall" (1977), "Stardust Memories" (1980), "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" (1982), "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986) and "Radio Days" (1987).
"Roberts' confident onscreen presence โ not to mention his tall frame, broad shoulders and brown curly mane โ was the perfect foil for Allen's various neurotic characters, making them more funny and enjoyable to watch," The Jewish Daily Forward wrote in 2016.
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