Macy’s 2017 holiday advertising campaign kicks off with this two-minute anthem titled “Lighthouse” which tells the story of two children, and their families, being brought together by the perfect gift.
This tug-at-the-heartstrings tale–which has the lad reaching out to a girl who recently lost her mother–was directed by Steve Ayson of MJZ for BBDO New York.
The two-minute piece is being shown online, while :60 and :30 versions will run both on TV and online.
Client Macy’s Agency BBDO New York David Lubars, chief creative officer, worldwide; Greg Hahn, chief creative officer, NY; Danilo Boer, Marcos Kotlhar, executive creative directors; Matt Brink, Adam Livesey, sr. creative directors; Ashley Henderson, executive producer; Rani Vaz, director of music. Production MJZ Steve Ayson, director; Germaine McMicking, DP; Emma Wilcockson, exec producer; Jeff MacDougall, line producer. Editorial Whitehouse Post Russell Icke, editor; Emma Platek, assistant editor; Caitlin Grady, exec producer; Pamela Heller, producer. Postproduction/VFX Blacksmith Daniel Morris, VFX supervisor, lead compositor; Charlotte Arnold, exec producer; Anu Nagaraj, producer; Margolit Steiner, Robert Bruce, Jay Lee, Jacob Slutsky, Ivan Zwarts, compositing; Tuna Unalan, 3D. Music Barking Owl Sound Barking Owl, music arrangement/supervision; Kelly Bayett, creative director/partner; KC Dossett, producer; Brian Canning, Ethan Walter, composers. Audio Post Sonic Union Steve Rosen, mixer.
For World Cancer Day (Feb. 4), Gustave Roussy, a treatment center in France ranked number one in Europe and number four in the world in the fight against cancer, is once again speaking out through film. “Lucie” retraces the life of a young woman, from her birth, her joys, her encounters and her trials, in particular the illnesses she faced or may have faced (if not vaccinated) during her life but which did not kill her thanks to advances in science and medicine, including the discovery of her rare cancer at the age of 36.
Conceived by Publicis Conseil and directed by Jaco Van Dormael via production company Hamlet, “Lucie” takes the gamble of using almost exclusively scientific images to tell this story (scanners, MRIs, microscopes, 3D). It highlights the beauty of these images beyond their raw meaning, the poetry that can emerge from them to pay tribute to all the researchers, doctors and specialists who over the centuries have transformed what were once serious illnesses into benign ones, saving many lives in the process. Like most of us, Lucie lives her life without even thinking about all the times when science and medicine have enabled her to go on living.
“In a world where cancer affects one person in two and more and more young adults, we want to show that the disease is a stage in life from which the majority of sufferers are now recovering, thanks to scientific progress. Lucie’s story is the story of thousands of patients. This film makes Gustave Roussy, its doctors, researchers and professionals part of the history of major scientific advances,” said Professor Fabrice Barlesi, CEO of Gustave Roussy.
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