Amnesty International in collaboration with its agency TBWA Paris are back. Directed by Onur Senturk and co-produced by Troublemakers.tv and the studio One More, Pens is a full CG film shot in motion capture (Mocaplab) that epitomises the potential of each signature in the defence of human rights. Highlighting that the voice of a single person can bring about the birth of a social movement, the film concludes with the words “your signature is more powerful than you think” and features the song Iron Sky by Paolo Nutini. Through powerful imagery, Amnesty International has encapsulated the essence of its primary objective – inspiring communities to defend their fundamental human rights.

Creative Credits:
Client - Amnesty International
Agency - TBWA Paris
Vice President - Anne Vincent
Account Management - Laure Lagarde
Account Management - Isabelle Dray
Clients - Bertin Leblanc, Arnaud Humblot
Creative Director - Philippe Taroux
Creative Director - Benoit Leroux
Art Director - Ingrid Varetz
Head of TV - Maxime Boiron
Agency Producer - Amer Zoghbi
Production Company - troublemakers.tv
Director - Onur Senturk
Producer - James Hagger
Production Manager - Aurelie Chevalier
Production Manager - Cecile Alvarez
Production Assistant - Charles-Philippe Bowles
1st Assistant Director - Thomas Bidart
Motion Capture - Mocaplab
Motion Capture Shoot Director - Remi Brun
Motion Capture Supervisor - Frank Vayssettes
Motion Capture Editor - Charles Fourgeront
Motion Capture Assistant - Ahmed Turki
Motion Capture Actor (Hero) - Romain Ogerau
Motion Capture Actor - Franck Pech
Motion Capture Actor - Charles Lelaure
Co-Producer & Post-Production - One More
Post Producer - Benjamin Darras
Art Director - Johnny Alves
Post Production Coordinator - John Meunier
VFX Supervisor - Eddy Richard
3D Artist - Francois-Xavier Gonnet
Modelling, Setup - Gwenhael Glon
Layout - Romain Durr
Animation - Jérémie Vidal
Layout, Lighting, Renders, Compositing - Jérome Rouvelet
Layout, Lighting, Renders, Compositing - Thomas Rodriguez
Layout, Lighting, Renders, Compositing - Tim Lebon
Layout, Lighting, Renders, Compositing - Victor Besse
R&D Supervisor - Alain Xerri
Editor - Nicolas Larrouquere
Additional Editing - Romain Bouileau
Flame Operator - Hervé Thouement
Music - Iron Sky by Paolo Nutini, Dave Nelson & Charlie Chaplin
Music Art Direction - Philippe Mineur, Ferdinand Huet
Sound Producer - Benoit Dunaigre
Head of Music & Sound - Olivier Lefebvre

Hello, Mr. Putin!

The ad explicates the manipulation of journalists by Vladimir Putin’s government, showing human rights abuse in the Russian media landscape.

Geo: Switzerland;
Category: Public interest;
Agency: Y&R;
Brand: Reporters Without Borders;
Advertising Agency: Advico Y&R AG, Zurich, Switzerland;
Creative Directors: Markus Gut, Daniel Bieri, Thomas Engeli;
Copywriter: Dieter Boller;
Graphic Design: Vincent Schaublin.

An interesting take on cigarettes showcased here in a new commercial for the "DNA Project" entitled The Cigarette That Saved Lives.
The DNA Project had the following to say about the ad campaign:
Egg Films’ Bruno Bossi recently directed The Cigarette That Saved Lives, a controversial commercial for The DNA Project, a non-profit organisation raising crime scene awareness and fighting crime with science with the invaluable support of The Change a Life Trust. “It came as a surprise, as it does to most people, that we do not have the legislative framework in place to more fully use DNA profiling for crime scene investigation in our country,” says Bruno. In South Africa, the National DNA Database only has about 133 000 DNA profiles and there are only two South African Police Services labs that can perform DNA profiling on forensic samples.
Conceptualised by Fox P2, The Cigarette That Saved Lives depicts another brutal South African murder but focuses on the evidence that’s left behind, encouraging viewers to never disturb a crime scene as DNA can convict. The ad is paradoxical: a cigarette saves lives in a commercial where the lead woman dies. “The wonderful thing about this ad is that it creates conversation,” says The DNA Project founder Vanessa Lynch. “Egg and Fox P2 have done a brilliant job.” Everyone involved with the shoot worked pro bono, from the crew to the rental houses. “This project struck me as one of the more worthwhile causes in our country,” says Bruno. The DNA Project would also like to thank the Change A Life Trust for helping by sponsoring this advert.
Vanessa set up The DNA Project after her father’s murderers went free because DNA evidence left at the crime scene was discarded, destroyed and not properly collected. “There was only one chance to collect and preserve that evidence, and it was lost,” says Vanessa. “We can never go back, so that crucial link to my father’s killers was lost with it.”
The Cigarette That Saved Lives is currently screening on local broadcasters as part of the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children between 25 November (International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women) and 10 December 2011 (International Human Rights Day). “Awareness is one of our biggest problems,” says Vanessa. “You can have the laws and systems in place but you only have once chance to gather the evidence before it’s lost forever.”
Credits:
Advertising Agency: FoxP2, Cape Town, South Africa
Agency Producer: Katherine Tripp
Executive Creative Director: Justin Gomes
Copywriter: Gavin Williams
Art Director: Michael Lees-Rolfe
Director: Bruno Bossi
Director of Photography: Paul Gilpin
Producer: Kirsten Clarence
Post Production Company: Black Ginger
Editing Company: Priest
Editor: Matthew Swanepoel
Music: Marc Algranti
Music Publisher: Pulse Music NY

The exhibition which opened on July 2 at the Musee d’histoire de Nantes, was organized in partnership with the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens, and offers a chance to discover the exceptional objects from the Refugee Treasures exhibition presented in 2009 in Athens, and a selection of items conserved in France that will be presented for the first time.

The treaty imposed the exchange of civil populations and defined the terms of forced migration on both sides of the Aegean Sea. 1.3 million Greeks and 400,000 Muslims were forced to leave their homes, leaving their belongings behind.

Today, some icons in France act as a testament of a migration extending far beyond Greece’s borders.

Exhibition curator: Kiriaki Tsesmeloglou, member of the Icon Network association, restorer and conservator of painted works.

The exhibition will run through November 13, 2016.

Source: Musee d’histoire de Nantes [July 08, 2016]