We open on a young girl hanging out in her bedroom. She’s going about her business when she hears something hit her window. Immediately we assume it’s a boy suitor or a gal pal slinging a pebble against the glass to get her attention. And that assumption proves correct–kind of.
Indeed a young male has thrown a pebble against the window. But the camera reveals that she lives in a high-rise city apartment complex and hitting the window with anything represents a Herculean feat in terms of arm strength and accuracy.
Turns out the young lad grew up to be Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Alex Rios who we see in game footage rocketing a throw to nail a base runner. These Jays have some exciting young guns, another reason to turn out to the ball park.
“Pebble” is one of three spots in a campaign directed by James Haworth of The Partners’ Film Company, Toronto, for agency Publicis, Toronto.
Aerin Barnes served as executive producer/producer for Partners’, with Stanny Park serving as producer. The DP was Tico Poulakakis.
The agency team consisted of creative director Duncan Bruce, group creative directors Tim Kavander and Bill Newbery, art director Mark Spalding, copywriter Miles Markovic and producer Erica Metcalfe.
Editor was Leo Zahartos of Blue Highway, Toronto. Visual effects artist was Alex Boothby of Technicolor, Toronto.
Review: Director Alex Parkinson’s “Last Breath” Starring Woody Harrelson and Simu Liu
A routine deep sea diving mission in the North Sea goes terribly wrong when a young diver is stranded some 300 feet below the surface in the new film "Last Breath." His umbilical cable has severed. The support vessel above is aimlessly drifting away from the site through violent, stormy waters. And the diver has only ten minutes of oxygen in his backup tank.
As if that wasn't enough, it's also a true story.
If merely reading this is giving you heart palpitations already, you can only imagine the white-knuckle experience of watching this all play out on the big screen. It's 40ish minutes of pure suspense and anxiety as the story shuffles between the man at the bottom of the ocean, Chris Lemons (Finn Cole), his fellow saturation divers (Woody Harrelson as Duncan and Simu Liu as Dave) in the diving bell below the waters who are unable to help and the crew in the support vessel above (including Cliff Cutris and Mark Bonnar) scrambling to get their systems back online and operational as the clock rapidly runs out. Ten minutes has never felt so short โ and then it just gets worse as the clock starts counting up, showing Chris's time without oxygen.
At one point, Liu's character Dave, a no-nonsense, all-business diver says matter-of-factly at that it's a body recovery, not a rescue. Deep sea saturation diving is a dangerous business, described at the start of the film as the most dangerous job on earth. Chris tells his fiancรฉ, in a short introduction, that it's no more dangerous than going to space. She replies that it's funny that he thinks that is comforting.
The real incident happened in September 2012 โ Dave, Duncan and Chris were just one team of divers sent to the ocean floor off the coast of Aberdeen, Scotland, to repair oil... Read More