David Frankham of Smuggler directed two shorts in the newest phase of American Family Insurance’s “Insure Carefully, Dream Fearlessly” campaign, including this piece titled “School on Wheels.” The advertising features American Family Insurance’s brand ambassadors Derek Jeter, the great, now retired NY Yankees MLB All-Star shortstop, Golden State Warriors NBA All-Star Kevin Durant, and Houston Texans NFL All-Pro J.J. Watt.
The campaign is built around the theme that every dream deserves a champion. Jeter, Durant and Watt pay an unexpected visit and assistance to hardworking Americans whose dreams are to help others by giving back to their communities. School on Wheels offers educational assistance to children living on the streets. In the “School on Wheels” spot/short, Jeter, Durant and Watt surprise the regional director and work with kids on their math, reading and drawing.
The campaign also features “I Know Better” from Grammy- and Oscar-winning musician John Legend, the newest American Family brand ambassador.
Credits
Client American Family Insurance Agency BBDO New York David Lubars, chief creative officer, worldwide; Greg Hahn, chief creative officer, NY; Susan Golkin, executive creative director; Eric Goldstein, sr. creative director; Becky Burkhard, sr. producer; Ali Gladstone, assistant producer; Rani Vaz, head of music production; John Melillo, music producer. Production Smuggler David Frankham, director; Brian Carmody, Patrick Milling Smith, exec producers/co-founders; Allison Kunzman, Carole Hughes, exec producers; Bernard Rahill, line producer; Ken Seng, DP. Editorial Crew Cuts Sherri Margulies, editor; Matt VanDaniker, assistant editor; Nancy Shames, exec producer; Michelle Bellaff, producer. Telecine Company 3 Tim Masick, colorist; Rochelle Brown, exec producer. Conform/Finish/VFX Suspect Suzanne Dyer, sr. Flame artist; Chelsea Galen, John Yu, Flame artists; Jae Park, assistant Flame artist; Hoon Chong, creative director; Minna Choung, art director/animator; Tsiliana Jolson, Alex Decaneas, producers; Robert Appelblatt, exec producer. Music Beacon Street Studios Andrew Feltenstein, John Nau, composers (arrangers); Leslie DiLullo. Audio Post Sonic Union Mike Marinelli, mixer; Patrick Sullivan, producer. Music/Song “I Know Better” John Stephens, Blake Mills, Will Oldham, composers/lyricists. Published by John Legend Publishing. John Legend, vocals; Larry Goldings, piano/Hammond organ; Blake Mills, guitar, bass, keys.
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.
