5 MIN SHORT FILM – BASED ON A SCRIPT FOR CHANEL “EGOISTE” MALE PERFUME

Best Short: Greenwich Film Festival
Best Short: Berlin Film Festival
Best Short: Villeurbanne Film Festival
Golden Boot Award: Portobello Film Festival

Script summary:
Grandpa's not getting any love or attention from his family.
In the middle of the night, he sneaks his sleeping granddaughter from her cot and puts her in the kitchen oven.
He sets fire to the house and calls the fire brigade.
When the fire brigade fails to find the granddaughter in the burning house, he runs inside and rescues her, much to the adoration of his family.

(The original script for the perfume featured a young man – ignored by his wife – putting his baby daughter in the oven.)

Writer: myself.  
Art director: Sergei Ivanov.  
Director: Andy Shelley.

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TV 40" – NISSAN NOTE – EMEA

Launch ad for Nissan Note family car.

Script summary:
A little girl’s upset that her snowman’s melting.
So dad puts the snowman in the car, switches on the air con, and they take him to higher ground, where it’s colder.

SUPER:
There’s no greater adventure than having kids. The new Nissan Note.

Agency: TBWA Paris.

RADIO – AFRI COLA “LOVE IS THIRSTY WORK” – GERMANY

Silver award, Art Directors Club.
Gold award, Ramses Radio award.
Best radio ad, ARD Award.

For rest of campaign, please see Folio.

TRANSLATION:

MVO:
If I had my way, the world would be different.
There'd be policemen picking up hitchers, 
Firemen watering flowers,
And couples walking in single file on narrow pavements.
Yeah, I know I'm asking a lot.
Love is thirsty work.

SFX bottle opening.

...but it ain't when you got an Afri Cola.

TV 40" – BMW 5 Series – EMEA

Agency: Jung von Matt.

TV 40" – SPARKASSE BANK YOUTH ACCOUNTS – GERMANY

Script summary:
An old man giving his grandchildren an emotional diatribe about the evils of money in life.

SUPERS:
It doesn’t need to be half as bad grandpa, with the Sparkasse Financial Assistance Plan for young people.

Agency: Jung von Matt.

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