The Me Too movement, created by Tarana Burke in 2006 to support survivors and end sexual violence, has released four PSAs in partnership with creative agency Deutsch. Through the message “We hear you. We see you. We believe you.,” the PSAs aim to rally survivors and supporters together in the fight to end sexual violence through testimonies from Terry Crews, Emily Waters, Daniela Contreras, and an anonymous survivor.
The latter is our ScreenWork selection, the story brought to life through animation that illustrates the emotional journey from pain to healing to ultimately finding a purpose.
Different production houses contributed to the campaign. We Are Royale served as the animation studio on the anonymous survivor PSA, narrated by the real-life protagonist.
Credits
Client Girls for Gender Equity/Me Too PSA Tarana Burke, founder/chief strategist Agency Deutsch Pete Favat, chief creative officer, North America; Jorge Calleja, EVP, executive creative director, art director; Adhemas Batista, EVP, head of design; Carmen Love, creative director; Chelsea Curry, copywriter; Katie Dittman, art director; Mary Ellen Duggan, SVP, executive producer; Jesse Pugh Ferguson, sr. integrated producer. Visual Effects & Animation We Are Royale, Los Angeles Heather-Lynn Aquino, director, art director, exec producer; Brien Holman, executive creative director, partner; Jayson Whitmore, executive director, brand partnerships; Jen Lucero, manging director, partner; Juliet Park, sr. art director; Rhys Demery, exec producer; Eric Zapakin, head of production; Juliet Park, Heather-Lynn Aquino, Yoyo Wang, Eleena Bakrie, Arthur Metcalf, Matty Deans, design team; Hyungsoon Joo, Matty Deans, Arthur Metcalf, Zak Tietjen, animation team. (Toolbox: Adobe Animate, Illustrator, After Effects, Photoshop) Music duotone audio group David Leinheardt, managing director; Ross Hopman, exec producer; Gio Lobato, producer. Sound duotone audio post Juan Aboites, Andy Green, sound designer; Greg Tiefenbrun, exec producer, audio post. Musicology Dan Dixon
PRETTYBIRD filmmaker Salomon Ligthelm reteams with English-Nigerian artist Little Simz on the conceptual and visually rich music video “Flood.”
Featuring Obongjayar & Moonchild Sanelly, “Flood” is a hyper-stylized meditation on materialism and its role in shaping culture.
Staying in a performance-based visual space, Ligthelm captures Little Simz in dramatic black and white. True to his signature photographic style--which borders on the edge of fine-art-like--the framing and texture of ‘Flood’ plays quite minimalist while the performances are equally playful and extravagant.
Ligthelm previously directed Little Simz’s 2021 award-winning music video “Introvert.”
